.ctvw5 explores the exploding world of eSports, which now has hundreds of millions of fans and is turning gamers into rich superstars
LOS ANGELES -- The line outside the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles stretches around the block -- hundreds of people decked out in their favourite team’s colours.
On the right, dressed in black, are the six players from the Toronto Defiant. On the left, in blue, the Boston Uprising. They all play "Overwatch."They compete head to head, 6-on-6, in a game where the objective is to move a payload object from one place on a map to another, while trying to stay alive and beat the other team.Members of the Toronto Defiant walk into Blizzard Arena
“I wake up and I'm like, yeah I'm living in L.A., I'm not paying for this apartment, and I get to play videogames as an actual job," says Meissner. When they aren’t training, they are taken care of by the team. They have a personal chef who cooks all their meals, and they have access to a masseuse and even a sports psychologist.
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