VOA常速英语:疫情下网络游戏玩家在家中磨练技能

A remote practice requires concentration and team work. Esports is just as competitive and just as exhausting as any other sports. You're using your brain, you're communicating, you're having strategic plans and it's the same format as like baseball and stuff. And it's challenging like chess, says an eSports player who studies mathematics who says the skills are similar. You can discuss multiple ways to solve one to get what wasn't same answer and I feel like you can do the same thing in eSports. ESports is a billion dollar industry with professional teams and competitions that draw thousands of spectators who come to see the world's top gamers.

The computer-based sport also offers professional opportunities. Event planning, logistics, purchasing the business side is a big side of it, accounting and finances. So we try to do an event where we try to integrate all those aspects into the whole eSports event. When not locked down at home, Pro players compete for trophies and prize money. At the college level, some get involved for enjoyment. All right let's just go for it and as you know I'm here making a lot more friends and it's really fun just be on a team. This computer science student is developing job skills. And now I help with the social media marketing, I make a lot of the promotional graphics. I help with administering a current website for the Association. Some professional athletes are turning to eSports in their time and isolation. It offers virtual competition without boundaries and does the same for student players. Essentially were able to compete with other people from across the world and get connected with other people that we wouldn't typically be able to meet in person which is pretty neat if you ask me. Professional teams are getting involved in online gaming as the line between sports and eSports starts to blur and eSports comes into its own in a time of pandemic. Michael Sullivan VOA news Los Angeles