Competitive Gaming

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Competitive Gaming is like an adventure in a big open world game where you can explore a lot of different areas and get in touch with a lot of different competitions.The gaming competitive gaming community seems to be getting wider and wider and there is a variety of taking part in this community. And what happened to be a "nerdy" thing, playing a game for weeks in the basement with yourself seems to be emerging and forming a bigger challenge for players all over the world. There are big events like majors where players in teams or as single players can challenge each other, can take part in a competition to demonstrate their skills and to show their power.

Introduction

Competitive Gaming is a game mode mainly connecting to multiplayer-based video games, where players compete with each other in different types of game mechanics, skillsets and settings.

The spectrum of competitive gaming interconnects with the wide field of video games in various sections. Often associated with professional monetized e-sports tournaments in first place, competitive gaming can be located in way more casual or intermediate gaming circumstances. There is a variety of types of gaming for competitive gaming like MMORPGs, MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena), Browser Games, Casual Games, Strategy Games, Fighting Games, Racing Simulation or Sports Games.

Hot Seat, LAN, Online-Mulitplayer

In the scientific and professional literature on video games competitive gaming is lacking profound research and recognition. ^[1]

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Professional Electronic Sports

Esports is a big industry which hosts worldwide tournaments in stadiums with millions of viewers in local or at home. Professional video gamer fight single player or in teams competitions against other gamer or other teams. The tournaments are not just for amusement but also for prestige and money. As like the winner or the winning team takes it all. One can discuss how durable these tournaments or this phenomenon are. Genres which are most viewed are MOBA, fighting games, first-person shooters and real-time strategy. For watching the Esport events there are platforms like Twitch, YouTube or Mixer.^[2]

One can discuss how such events are produced and what influence teams or games have. There are also possibilities for the figure of the gamer. They have all nicknames and there are teams from all over the world. In some countries there are schools for Esports, so there is a training for player. They are trained for competition like for example football players train for the next game. Even the football clubs have not just their teams for championships like champions league or the national division, there are also teams for Esport for FIFA for example. So the gamer do not just coming upstairs from their basement gaming, they are demonstrating their skills and take part in competition all over the world and the identify maybe more with their skills and their fans. Even admitting that they play video games and getting hyped for it is different as it was in the past. They show their membership or their belonging to a game and a team and they take part in big produced events where sponsors invest a lot of money.

Spirit of Competition

What is competition?

Competitive gamer at home

Fight against yourself

There is no gaming without competition?

Metagaming

In a competitive context metagaming can be defined as

Main article: Metagaming

Cheating

There seems to be a long tradition of cheating, which is connected to the history of games. Why is it that players want to cheat or use some cheats for their pleasure of gaming or their successful outcome? In Mia Consalvo's essay about cheating, the practice of cheating is stated as not easily identified or defined.There is also a conflict for players with cheating, but there are practices or events definitely marked as cheating in the eyes of players or developers while cheating is developing in a new way.^[3] By thinking of cheating there are different forms, so for example using cheats to get a lot of money for building a big house with full furniture for example in The Sims 4. One can also disturb a player while they are taking part in a racing simulation. There is also the question if cheating is always negative? Can cheating generate new forms of gaming or what if all the players in the gaming round would use cheats? There could be a contest just about cheating. And what is with modding? Is it also like cheating or do the modders participate as developers in the game?

Game Addiction and Violence

terms discussed by players and non-players

What are the effects of gaming? Is there always violence in games? Can games make you an addict? Aesthetics of violence?