competitive gaming
Organized video game tournaments
Competitive gaming is video gaming pursued as a serious contest rather than casual entertainment.
Players or teams compete in organized tournaments, often for prize money, rankings, or professional status.
The term covers everything from local competitions to international esports leagues: She left her job to pursue competitive gaming full-time.
Also called esports when referring to the professional scene.
- FPSVideo smoothness metric
- tournamentsOrganized competitive series
- MOBACompetitive team strategy game
- esportsProfessional video game competitions
- battle royaleMulti-combatant elimination contest
meta · strategy · reflexes · fan communities · mental resilience · input lag · coaches · scrims · RTS · gaming · clutch · kill streak · practice routines · analysts · teamwork · bootcamp · streaming · player contracts
- esportstournament, esports, ESL, MLG, championship
- computer gaming associationsesports, gaming clans, gaming communities, amateur leagues, national teams
- Japanese arcadesgame center, arcade stick, joystick controls, high scores, leaderboards
- Pseudosportscompetitive eating, beer pong, cornhole, darts, billiards
- game AIchess engine, minimax, search algorithm, game bot, pruning
- challenging gameschess, Dark Souls, sudoku, Go, Elden Ring