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if you haven't been paying attention eSports is a huge industry some analysts are predicting it will net over six hundred million dollars worldwide in 2015 and it's only growing at this year's blizzcon blizzards annual fan convention eSports proved to be one of the show's biggest draws the Olympic Games of eSports is happening here for World Championships at blizzcon for and it's super exciting everybody here is really really thrilled to check this out and see who the champions are going to be most Game Studios involved in eSports have a single game in competition as we mentioned Blizzard has for starcraft 2 the uber-popular realtime strategy game that pits Terrans Protoss in Zerg against one another in a military sci-fi epic mega MMO World of Warcraft's arena Championships featuring PvP teams duking it out for glory blizzards newest game heroes of the storm a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena starring playable characters from every game in the company's arsenal and hearthstone the collectible card game for PC smartphones and tablets that lets players build custom decks and face off against local or online opponents there for very different types of games and even though every games dev team knows the ins and outs of each one eSports players always make it interesting I think they always surprise us they are always doing things at a level of play that is so far beyond what any of us are capable of you who's going to deal all the damage for clock nine all those people cheering they're cheering for a game that just came out in June starcraft 2 has a long-standing even bigger fan base with even more intense fans so exciting and amazing be able to watch that especially in person and see your favorite person I'm still trying to get Lipes autograph favorite players and teams are a staple in eSports community just like traditional sports Blizzard is well aware of that fact and when it's developers work on games with potential eSports components they definitely like to keep players and spectators in mind those values that we kind of instilled to make the play experience better for the player hopefully will be valuable for someone who's watching the game and speaking of valuable those winners aren't just walking away with pride the prize pool across all four championship series at blizzcon 2015 was 1.25 million dollars we are in the wrong business and need to get better at video games it's obvious that eSports is huge even if you've never seen a match yeah the whole convention is built on passion passionate fans passionate creators and eSports themselves I think just builds that passion and builds arm that passion eSports is only gonna get bigger from here it's true and you know who knows maybe we'll see one of you here playing for the world championships next year