E-sports: This is gaming at competition level. Worldwide, e-sports events attract large audiences. Instead of pale computer nerds playing computer games at night and living on potato crisps and soft drinks, well-paid professionals compete in the multi-player mode of popular video games. In Germany, e-athletes are gaining increasing recognition. KIT SC, the sports club of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, now has an e-sports division, while the students team has been existing for a longer time already. About a hundred students train regularly, the best twenty have joined the club.
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For training times, upcoming events, and contacts, click: www.esuka.de (in German only).
More information:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_uH0p0v1MdWQjLedGcCSw
https://www.twitch.tv/esports_united_karlsruhe
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