@Riot CALLING ALL RIOTERS: Research Paper on ESports
This post is addressed to: Alexander 'Xelnath' Brazie August 'gypsylord' Browning Bradford 'CertainlyT' Wenban Brian "FeralPony" Feeney Colt 'Ezreal' Hallam David 'Volty' Abecassis Jeffrey 'Lyte' Lin Joe 'Hephastopheles' Ziegler Kevin 'Geeves' O'Brien Kuo-Yen 'Xypherous' Lo Meddler Miyuki "Shurelia" Mitsuhashi Richard "Nome" Liu Richard 'Brackhar' Hough RiotScruffy RiotWrekz Rob 'rjcombo' Garrett Ryan 'Morello' Scott Siyang 'Issfire' Steve 'Guinsoo' Feak Steven 'Coronach' DeRose Tom 'Zileas' Cadwell Zenon And any @RIOT Or Rioter I have missed.
I am currently in my Sophomore year in college and am required to write a 6 to 8 page argumentative research paper, and I have chosen to write it on the integration of ESports (predominantly League of Legends) into after school extra-curricular activities just like Football or Baseball. In my paper I will go in depth with statistics from Twitch.tv (funds, payment, streamers) and how the industry works as a whole.
Here is where you come in. I have been actively playing this game for three years now and have a pretty good understanding of how the community functions and how ESports as a whole woks. I am posting this to inquire about specific details such as but not limited to:
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Estimated industry value
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RIOT's company worth
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Active Players/Accounts
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Average number of games per hour, day, week or month (Etc.)
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Prize Payouts from each individual season 1-4
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Ticket sales for World Finals years 2-4
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Average age of players (I don't know if possible)
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Average company revenue (Advertisements, sponsors, ticket sales, etc)**
And really just any other information that could be used to support my claims. I will check this forum every day and if you want to E-Mail me instead just sk me and I will be happy to do that. Thank you as always :)
Apparently this is not allowed under "Community Creations" even though it is a creation by me about the game, so please inform me of WHERE to put this if it does not belong here instead of just removing it and saying "try again somewhere else" :)