Rise and decline of esports

A brief history of competitive gaming

Miikka Sipilä
Rambling Idiot
Published in
9 min readOct 25, 2023

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Roughly 18 years ago back in the dark ages of the mid 2000’s when I was 13 competitive gaming was not a mainstream thing. There was no service you could tune into to watch esports as you can nowadays. There was no market, sponsorships, or any structure to it.

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Miikka Sipilä
Rambling Idiot

Just a rambling idiot writing about complex thoughts and concepts