Esports History

What’s inside

• Which event is widely regarded as the first organized esports competition?
• What made Atari's 1980 Space Invaders Championship historically significant?
• Which game played the central role in the rise of South Korea's professional esports scene during the late 1990s?
• Why was the inaugural Dota 2 International in 2011 historically notable?
• Match each historic esports event with the year in which it took place.
• Match each game with its historical esports association.
• Match each organization or competition with its historical contribution to esports.
• Match each milestone with the esports title or series most directly associated with it.