Get a Career in eSports, type of jobs available and what you need to know?

It was in 1972 the first eSports event took place, where the video game competition took place among student in Stanford university, in which they competed in the Spacewar Olympics for ultimate prize of a year subscription for the Rolling Stone magazine and in 1980 it became solid competitive gaming as the first eSports competition was held, which was Space Invaders Championship, that drew over 10,000 participants across the US and since eSports has gone mainstream and caught global attention since year 2000.

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Esports can be described as the world of competitive, organized video gaming hence, they are video gaming competitions where players who can called the athletes confront each other in multiplayer video games.

Many games are played in eSport and the popular genre are first-person shooters (FPS) like the call of duty, real-time strategy (RTS); StarCraft: Brood War, fight games like street fighter and sport games like the FIFA series and NBA 2K. 2019 have been a busy year for eSport judging from the observation from eSports Observer highlighting , the top 10 eSports games—ranked by highest total prize pool as seen in the image below.

Like the other sports, eSports has mainly two types of careers.

• Those you who actually play the game they are the athletes
• Those who are part of the frameworks that give supports.

The Athletes: The eSports athletes are professional gamer just like any professional physical sport players, they signs contract with an eSports league team and participates in tournaments. Being a professional gamer you be a good gamer of whatever genre of eSport you must have garner extensive experience or being play from childhood, just like
18-year old MSDossary from Saudi Arabia, who won the prize money of $250 000 in the FIFA eWorld Cup final which took place O2 stadium in London some few days after the FIFA 2018 World Cup finals in Russia and also with the prize money he got himself an invitation to the Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony that goes with it.

Careers for those that support the frameworks

Game designer: In the eSport gaming job, the video game designing is the popular aspect but it very competitive. they jobs of the designers are numerous; create and draft out the game idea, design the environment for the interplay among players and the as well develop game story-lines, character biographies, role-play nitty-gritty, missions, puzzles, challenges, reward systems and many more.

Software developer: In the gaming industry the software developer in the gaming work together with designers to transform the designer ideas into code. The developer brings out the game structure and the working groundwork for flawless performance of the video game and his or her experience in playing video game will be an an added advantage

Animation Engineer: one of the great feature one can talk about any good game is animation, especially the way the animated characters move and morph with amazing fluidity that make it so real is the work of good animation engineering, hence their job is very well needed.

Content writer: The writing part in gaming is all encompassing, from writing the scripts and stories, writing speechless for characters, which include conversation between characters. Also technical writing is also needed for writing the game documentation and instructions.

Market Researcher: This job is very critical to the success on any video game, This have have to do with collecting of data that will give necessary insight to know it the game will be a hit. With this insight the get to know and decide how, where and who to sell to. They conduct surveys among potential buyers in order to define their buying preferences and habits.

Currently, some university are offering degree in eSports. In USA, Robert Morris University in Illinois and University of California Irvine, in the UK, Staffordshire University, Singapore, Informatics Academy, in India Asian Institute of Gaming and Animation and in China, the Lanxiang Technical School.

Conclusively, one can decide to pick up career in eSport and with the popularity of eSport that is growing in leap and bound, companies are becoming brand sponsors and world’s biggest governing bodies are seeing the potential of eSport, in which it will be a medal competitive gaming will at the 2022 Asian Games and the Olympic organizing committee has also revealed that it is considering including eSports as a demonstration event in time for Paris 2024. You don't need to be a professional eSport player to to carve out for yourself a career in eSports.