When the video game is exported beyond the computer screens, success is usually there. Proof of this is once again with the 12,000 spectators gathered this Thursday, May 18, inside the Accor Hotel Arena. The Major Counter-Strike: GO electronic sports tournament has been installed there for its final phase, until this Sunday.
On the programme, clashes between French teams, such as Vitality, and international teams in the shooting game. Counter strike global offensive. The objective: attack or defend your combat zone. Parties that, therefore, offer real entertainment for the people who come to the venue. “It creates totally different emotions than when you look behind a PC,” says one of the attendees present at the site.
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The associations also note the growing enthusiasm for counterattack and electronic sports in general. “A year ago, the association really exploded, we were more or less 100. This year we are 380,” says Nicolás, president of a group of sympathizers, for example.
An attraction that can also be explained by the performances of the French team: the French team Vitality is today number 1 in the discipline and remains one of the great favorites of the tournament, especially after their victory in the quarterfinals against the British from ‘ In the Gap (2-0).
Bertrand Amar, director of e-sports at Webedia, highlights a desire on the part of the State to develop e-sports in the territory: “As for this organization, the State services have helped to unblock visa problems. In esports It’s not like in sports, there are still no athlete visas that are obvious.”
Even with a lot of appeal beyond the screens, the Major Counter-Strike: GO Tournament Finals should still draw crowds online. It is expected that more than three million Internet users will discover this Sunday who will win the million euros awarded to the winners.
Source: BFM TV
