PDS 6.14 How eSports Became a $1.1 Billion Industry: Sold Out Stadiums, HUGE Prize $$$, & More

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you've been a fantastic Friday.
0:03.0	Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.
0:04.8	And if you're new here on Fridays, we do things a little bit different.
0:07.1	On Fridays, I like to deep dive into just one topic.
0:09.4	Sometimes it's light and interesting, sometimes dark and important.
0:12.7	I figured with E3 happening this week, let's dive deeper into video games.
0:16.0	And specifically we're talking about e-sports and just how commercially successful it has become.
0:19.8	But before we jump into it, two quick shoutouts.
0:21.8	One to the sponsor of today's video, Manscape.com.
0:24.3	Because when Manscaping, you must use the right tools for the job.
0:27.6	I'm just gonna leave that there with no more context for now.
0:29.8	You'll learn more later.
0:30.6	And two, July 1st is getting closer and closer, which is of course when we are launching the YouTube. learn more
0:35.0	deep dive.
0:38.0	deep dive so if you took a second right now,
0:40.0	go to the description,
0:41.0	click the link to subscribe to that channel.
0:42.9	Thank you and I'm excited.
0:44.3	But with that said, back to e-sports.
0:46.3	Which you will say it is just insane when you compare what's happening with today's
0:49.2	tournaments to those that were happening nearly 20 years ago.
0:51.8	For example, here's a video showing the winning moment
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