Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you've been a fantastic Friday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.

And if you're new here on Fridays, we do things a little bit different.

On Fridays, I like to deep dive into just one topic.

Sometimes it's light and interesting, sometimes dark and important.

I figured with E3 happening this week, let's dive deeper into video games.

And specifically we're talking about e-sports and just how commercially successful it has become.

But before we jump into it, two quick shoutouts.

One to the sponsor of today's video, Manscape.com.

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And two, July 1st is getting closer and closer, which is of course when we are launching the YouTube. learn more

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But with that said, back to e-sports.

Which you will say it is just insane when you compare what's happening with today's

tournaments to those that were happening nearly 20 years ago.

For example, here's a video showing the winning moment

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