Started by Ludovica Ferri (@ludo_) ·
the first esports prize was a year of Rolling Stone
Stanford, 1972: an 'Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics', grand prize a year's subscription to Rolling Stone. 1980: Atari's Space Invaders Championship pulls in more than 10,000 players. 1997: a Quake tournament where the winner drives home in John Carmack's Ferrari.
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- What was the first esports tournament?
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- Red Annihilation
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- “first video game tournament ever” (google.com)
- Esports (en.wikipedia.org)
- Spacewar! (en.wikipedia.org)
- “atari space invaders championship 1980” (google.com)
- Red Annihilation (en.wikipedia.org)
the prize was John Carmack's Ferrari
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