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Legend

2 years ago

Has the E-Sports bumble burst?

I’m referring to all E-Sports. However although I do follow F1 E-Sports I’ve never really understood why so many believe it’s some hugely followed sport. Only people I know that follow F1 E-Sports...

Cpayne32

Hero+

2 years ago

@ScarDuck14 The Esports scene was always well run previously.

My take on how to fix it is instead of travelling around the world, there should be a set location (ie. London or Silverstone) that the drivers go to for LAN events.

What hasn’t helped either is the whole Ronhaar debate (i don’t think i need to go into it). I think with any controversy that gets blown out of proportion its the event that suffers.

Also the prize pool issues is another reason. If F1 are contributing im sure they can give more than a $750,000 prize pool considering how popular the sport is getting

Overall i don’t see the esports scene for f1 surviving much longer if at all unless it gets more care

ScarDuck14

Legend

2 years ago

@Cpayne32The issue isnt whether it’s run well or not. legitimate investors in E-Sports are not seeing the returns they expected. I’m guessing but during lockdown they see massive increase in numbers following various E-Sports. So FOMO they jumped on it gambling that E-Sports would retain those numbers post lockdown. However that hasn’t been the case. F1 E-Sports during lockdown I believe was getting hundreds of thousands of viewers during live streams. Post lockdown before Ronhaar blew up. Dropped to just thousands. Even when I’ve watched PSGL and WOR. I’ve never seen more than a few thousand live viewers.

As for F1 giving more money. They refused to pay for the travelling expenses for the drivers to get to the event.