Electronic sports (eSports) is a term for the competitive play of video games. Other terms include competitive gaming, professional gaming, eSport, and cybersport. The most common video game genres associated with electronic sports are real-time strategy, fighting, first-person shooter, and multiplayer online battle arena. Games are played competitively at amateur, semi-professional and professional levels, and some games have organized competition in the form of leagues and tournaments. Events such as Major League Gaming, European Gaming League, Global Starcraft II League, World Cyber Games, Dreamhack, the Evolution Championship Series, and Intel Extreme Masters provide both live broadcasting of streamed games, and cash prizes to competitors. In recent history, eSports has gone through tremendous growth, incurring a large increase in both viewership and prize money.
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