The Future of Sports is Digital. It's also Chinese.

88 Pages·2017·14.4 MB·English

The Future of Sports is Digital.
It’s also Chinese.
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Editor's Note
AUGUST 2017
N
W I
Free to Play
My first window into esports (also known as electronic sports or professional video
gaming) was the 2014 documentary , and the only reason I watched it,
as I recall, was because it was the featured USD0.99 cent movie rental on iTunes that
week.
Fast forward three years, and I’m attending a digital gaming event live: the We're giving away tickets to some
National Electronic Sports Open (NESO) at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. A Chinese
of the very best events in the Pearl
team has just won the whole tournament, and I’m halfway through a list of questions
Dota 2
like ‘Do your parents support your career?’ which suddenly seem extremely outdated. River Delta, alongside a host of free
“You don’t know much about esports, do you?” A player from China’s Team
meals and other goodies. Follow our
Newbee, ranked among the top five in the world, asks with a grin.
I didn’t, and my assumption that many Chinese didn’t either couldn’t have been official WeChat feeds and sign up
further from the truth. Now the No. 1 market in the world for video games, China for our weekly newsletter for your
is home to more than 70 million esports enthusiasts – more than triple the US’s 20
chance to win major prizes! To stay
million. Meanwhile, there are roughly 117 million esports players in China, from
recreational to professional, and half of the 10 highest-earning esports players in the up to date, visit www.thatsmags.
world in 2016 were Chinese.
com or scan the QR codes below and
Yet despite those numbers, electronic sports are only just beginning to reach
their full potential here, as local governments and universities gradually show more follow our WeChat accounts.
support for the industry. To read more about how China is helping shape the future of
digital gaming, turn to p38.
Elsewhere in the magazine, we go behind the scenes of global fidget spinner
production (p12), chat with a Russian photographer who is redefining impressions
of modern China (p16), divulge 10 things you never knew about Ariana Grande (p34)
and speak with some of the world’s leading snooker players before they compete in
Guangzhou this month (p52).
ThatsGuangzhou
There’s a lot going on this summer in the Pearl River Delta, so remember to flip to
p72 for a few ideas on how to spend your holiday!
Cheers,
Jocelyn Richards
Editor-in-Chief
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38 COVER STORY
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9 END OF THE LINE
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