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The Differences between Esports and "Play Games"

	Esports	"Play Games"
Essence	• Sports event • Uniform rules, has leagues and clubs • Fair competition between people • Antagonism • Focus on the ability to think and teamwork	• Entertainment • No rules • Human-machine or human-to-human communication • Entertainment • Level up easily by payment
Gamers	• Pro players, game as a profession • Intensive professional training, high elimination rate • Strict management system • Practise the same game for a long time • Need talent, mentality and many other abilities	• Ordinary player, game for entertainment • No training, no elimination • Game anytime • Play different games during a period • No specific requirements
Place	• Esports Pavilion • Esports Business Theme • For Esports enthusiasts • Ability to host, plan and execute events • Complete membership and service charter	• Internet bar • Entertainment and leisure • For people especially the young who are keen on online games • No such abilities • No threshold

Apparently, though eSports requires a lot of time, it doesn’t encourage addiction and won’t let you indulge in games. More than entertainment, watching Esports live stream from professional gamers is a way to improve your gaming skills, and learn the ability to think and how to team work.

Esports Live Streaming: Choose the Game Type

Esports games can be classified into two types: Against game and leisure game, but commonly the "Against" type is the eSports game that people are talking about. Among various types of games, the below six types are often played by gamers in eSports games.

FPS game, aka First-person shooter game, is a video game genre centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, that is, the gamer experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. Examples are Counter-Strike, Overwatch, Call of Duty, and the like.

RTS game is Real-time strategy game. It allows all players to simultaneously play the game in real time, while no need to take turns to play. In addition, players in the game can play the general and have deployment of troops. Examples include StarCraft and Warcraft.

SPG is tailor-made for sports enthusiasts who want sports to be entertained. All of this kind of games have the trend to move the sportsman’s true identity and information into the game so as to attract more gamers. Typical games are FIFA and NBA2K Series.

FTG (Fight Technology Game) is a kind of action game which has the obvious action game characteristics. The game is usually divided into two or more camps to fight each other, using fighting skills to defeat the opponent to win. The King of Fighters and Street Fighter can be categorized under this umbrella.

MOBA game: MOBA, also known as Action Real-Time Strategy (Action RTS or ARTS), is the abbreviation of Multiplayer online battle arena in which players usually need to buy equipment. To play the game, players are usually divided into two teams which will compete with each other in the scattered game map. Unlike the traditional hardcore RTS games, players do not need to operate RTS organizational units like buildings, resources, training arms, etc., but only control their chosen characters. The most popular MOBA games are Dota and LoL.

CCG: CCG is collectible card game, also called a trading card game, which is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards, introduced with Magic: The Gathering in 1993.

Watch Esports Live: Top 9 Esports Events Deserving Streaming 2021

Esports events are usually held by different leagues, say The Overwatch League, The ESL Pro League, Call of Duty World League and the like, and every league has its own schedule for tournaments and matches of corresponding games once a year or more seasons a year. The games played in the eSports events are often FPS games, MOBA games and FTG games, and popular examples include StarCraft, Warcraft, Dota, CS:GO, League of Lengends, Storm Heroes, etc. An important or final game always attracts tens of thousands of people to watch, but disappointedly this year has no luck. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the Esports events had been cancelled. However, next year’s Esports live streaming deserves your attention.

Events	Games	Dates	Prize pool	Organization
Fortnite World Cup	Fortnite	Canceled	n.a.	Epic Games
The International	DOTA 2	Canceled	n.a.	Valve Corporation
League of Legends Championship	League of Legends	25-Sep	TBD	Riot Games
BlizzCon 2020	WoW, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Starcraft II	Canceled	n.a.	Blizzard Entertainment
Overwatch World Cup	Overwatch	TBA	TBD	Blizzard Entertainment
Rocket League Championship	Rocket League	Canceled	n.a.	Psyonix
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Campionships	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	Nov 9 – Nov 22	$1 million	Valve Corporation
The Hearthstone World Championship	Hearthstone	TBA	$500,000	Blizzard Entertainment
Call of Duty World League Championship	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	Aug 19 – Aug 30	$4,600,000	Activision

Besides the aforementioned events, there are also other eSports events including FIFA eWorld Cup, Capcom Cup, International eSports Federation World Championships, Evo (Evolution) Championship Series, DOTA 2 Asia Chamionships, Halo World Championship, The Intel Extreme Masters, DreamHack, StarCraft II World Championship, Smite World Championship, and Fortnite Secret Skimish.

Top 3 Live Game Streaming Sites Where You Can Watch Esports Live

Actually, most of us don’t have the opportunity to have an in-person tournament. But if you want to familiarize yourself with eSports, the Esports live streaming sites are good places to go. Now that you have known something about the Esports events and popular eSports games, you can turn to below sites to watch Esports live whenever you want.

No 1. Twitch – Most Popular Platform to Live Stream Esports

Twitch is the first live game streaming service which embraces the concept of live streaming how to play a game online. Including broadcasts of eSports competitions and gaming-related talk shows, this platform highlights Esports as a separate part. If you don’t know which games are popular or which one you should play, this place will help you make a decision. As for live game streaming, Twitch is the most active site which list live channels of different eSport games every day. You can watch how the professional gamers proceed their games and improve your own gaming skills, or just live streaming your own game if you like.

Esports games: CS: GO, LoL, VALORANT, Dota 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Fortnite, Teamfight Tactics, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Rocket League, World of Warcraft, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, Hearthstone, FIFA 20, Apex Legends, Overwatch, Garena Free Fire, Chess, StarCraft 2, Warcraft 3, World of Tanks, Smite, PUBG MOBILE, Brawl Stars, Magic: The Gathering, Street Fighter V, Call of Duty: Mobile, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Team Fortress 2, Tekken 7, Area of Valor, Clash Royale, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Madden NFL 20.

Besides Esports games, there are also various other game videos and live streams like that you can search for.

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No. 2 YouTube Gaming – Big Name, Big Reputation

As Amazon-owned Twitch dominates the market and become a billion-dollar company because of live streaming game videos, YouTube is now getting on board to share the big cake. Though YouTube doesn’t highlight Esports as a standalone category, you can find Esports live gaming streaming channels in different kinds. YouTube Gaming channel is a game-centralized place where popular Esports streaming videos are provided and you can also broadcast your own. You don’t need to download any special app, if you have a YouTube account, then you already have everything you need. The disadvantage of this gamer-focused interface is that it is difficult to separate live contents from recorded contents.

Live games: Garena Free Fire, Fortnite, Minecraft, Puzzle & Dragons, Among Us, CS: GO, PUBG MOBILE, Roblox, Dota 2, Brawl Stars, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Apex Legends, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Cooking Academy, Grand Theft Auto V, Call of Duty: Mobile, Saint Seiya: Awakening, NBA 2K21, Temple Run, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, League of Legends, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Marvel’s Avengers, Lineage M, Dead by Daylight, Valorant, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

You can also search for other game videos that uploaded by gamers but they are not live videos. The Esports live streams are only included in the categories mentioned above, and obviously they are far less than that on Twitch website.

No.3 Facebook Gaming – New but Promising

Facebook allows users to live stream starting in 2015, and now it also dedicates its own separate game page. Fans can get notifications from their following accounts easily so as to track the popular game broadcastings in time. For broadcasters, Facebook Gaming now allows partnered streamers to play copyrighted music in the background of their live streams. Also, the migration of users from Mixer to Facebook Gaming gives you a good reason to live stream eSports games on this place. However, the speed of this platform is not as fast as Twitch when responses to network because it adopts .mpd form for live streams. Twitch adopts .m3u8 URL to live stream everything, and live m3u8 videos will change the resolution automatically and quickly to ensure smooth and high-quality streaming all the time. So, if you need a very quick response, Twitch is better.

Games: Facebook Gaming has most of the games that Twitch and YouTube Gaming have.

• Free Facebook Video Downloader
• M3U8 Stream

Besides the top 3, there are also smashcast, Steam TV, Nonlive, Trovo, Dlive, etc. for you to choose from to watch eSports game videos. Besides, some Esports betting sites let you see the live scores and results without videos, which is a good choice to follow your favorite tournaments if you have no strong network.

Watch Esports Live Game Streaming on Computer with 5KPlayer

One way as we have mentioned above is to access to the game streaming sites to watch Esports streaming videos, another way is to use 5KPlayer to live stream Esports using the live stream URLs. Why use this way? Take Twitch as an example, during the live stream, there are always alerts and comments. If you prefer a clean playback window, you are suggested to use 5KPlayer to live stream the video URL, like Twitch .m3u8 live URLs and Facebook Gaming .mpd live links. Here, we will tell you how to find Twitch live stream URL and then play it with 5KPlayer.

Step 1. Find Esports Live Stream URL

1. Go to Esports section on Twitch website, and open a live channel you are interested in.
2. Tap the F12 key on your keyboard or right-click on the video to choose the Inspect to see the HTML interface of the live video.
3. Click on the small phone icon, refresh the webpage and play the video again.
4. Choose Network and then click on the funnel icon.
5. Tap m3u8 in the “Filter” box to search for the live .m3u8 link and copy it.

Step 2. Live Stream Esports Videos

1. Free download 5KPlayer, install and launch it on your computer.
2. Click on the "Live" icon on the main UI of 5KPlayer.
3. Paste the copied .m3u8 URL to the "Input a URL box". Then, hit Play to start the live streaming.

If interested, you can also use 5KPlayer’s DLNA function to cast eSports live stream from computer to smart TV wirelessly.

All in all, Esports is a professional game sport like any other sport tournament. If you want to know more like some technical terms: APM (actions per minute), Buff, AOE, ADC, DPS (damage per second) and Solo, start your journey by watching Esports live.

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