North America Falling Behind?

Posted by Lipton on July 6th, 2009 filed in StarCraft News

North America has been trailing behind Asia and Europe for quite some time now. With the demise of many large scale LAN events, the death of many leagues, teams and sponsors backing out of North American E-Sports; things are not looking good.

However the question is not ‘Is North America behind the rest?’ it is ‘Why is North America behind the rest?’. There is no question that we are facing depressing times, especially in the E-Sports industry, but why is North America so much worse off than other parts of the world in the E-Sports industry?

North American E-Sports is behind the rest because of the way it is setup compared to Europe and Asia. In terms of Internet infrastructure, population density, targeted demographics, game selections, and the level of maturity and professionalism within top tier E-Sports organizations.

With Europe, their population density is much higher than North Americas. As well, with so many countries and competing languages, opportunities for leagues such as the ENC are actually possible. This combined with their internet infrastructure makes it so these leagues and teams are possible. People from Sweden can easily play people from Italy with little latency issues.

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