Come on?! I don't know about US, but good old football (not an american kind) is like 100x times more imporant in Europe than any eSport.
Yesterday Manchester City - Chelsea game ended up 6:0, and #MCICHE tag was trending on twitter worldwide (and it is only England Premier League, not even Soccer World Cup!)
Please wake me up once some eSport event will be a worldwide trending topic on twitter.
Paris Saint-Germain is a co-owner of the 2nd place champion DOTA 2 team in 2018
PSG is the 11th most valuable football club in the world and worth 825m euros. They bought in April of this past yaer and obviously see Dota 2 as worth investing in now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSG.LGD
It's funny how hacker news is obsessed with finding the next big thing but when something comes along that might challenge traditional sports industry there is so much objection. This is not specific to this comment but replies I'm seeing throughout.
I find this especially odd in light of the fact that a Twitch founder was a venture parter at ycombinator.