Name: Esports Has Never Been THIS Competitive
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Video gaming has taken over the world, from film and TV adaptations to a dramatic rise in eSports arenas around the world.

Here are four videos all about the competitive edge that is eSports.

For most of us guys who have been in this scene for such a long time, we started off with nothing.

And we're just here because we have been fighting for it.

I'm just very lucky to be able to do something that I love to do.

I gave everything to actually become a professional gamer. eSports has had a meteoric rise in the mainstream, accounting for over 2% of all internet traffic.

GetRight has used that popularity to turn it into a career.

I'm 26 years old, from Sweden, and I play for my team, Ineos in Pyjamas.

I'm playing a game that's called Counter-Strike Global Offensive.

Counter-Strike Global Offensive is a team-based game.

It's basically 16 rounds, and if you come to 16 rounds, you win the game.

It's around 10 years professional I've been playing this game.

I never thought it would be my profession to be a Counter-Strike player.

GetRight has taken its hobby all the way to the top, taking in over $350,000 in career earnings and playing in Counter-Strike tournaments all over the world, where millions of people tune in to watch him and his team, Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Being a professional gamer is hard, exciting.

You're not there just because you're good at something.

You're there because you're doing something that you love to do.

It is very powerful to see how the setup is for every tournament.

Just look on the stages that we've been playing, and we fill up stadiums everywhere around the world.

It's kind of cool to see how people recognize you when you go out to just buy a coffee at 7-Eleven, or even go to a cinema, or just eating a dinner, or anything like that.

When you go into different tournaments, like here in ELEAGUE or ESL, it's very, very neat.

They have the top-notch computer, the top-notch monitor, the top-notch stage.

Feeling that moment when you just won a tournament, you're feeling those emotions that come with it.

I think that motivates me to keep on going, just years after years after years.

I'm not doing it just because it's my work.

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It's a massive cultural phenomenon, set to take over the world with a new generation of athletes battling in virtual worlds created using advanced computing technology.

And it takes a supercomputer to really make this lifelike game environment exist.

The textures, the hair, the effect of wind, how water moves.

All of these things are being physically modeled at a speed that feels very real.

And they're doing that in cooperation with us at Hillepacker Enterprises.

My earliest programming experiences were literally solving tic-tac-toe style games on personal computers back in the 80s.

Now, I'm building some of the world's most powerful supercomputers to take on some of the world's most grand scientific problems in a computational way.

Supercomputers are used in all kinds of applications today based on this very simple idea of modeling and simulation.

When we don't understand something physically, it helps us to build a model of it.

First, we develop the physical characteristics of the object.

And then we act on it with forces to simulate real-world phenomena.

So you can think of pushing on the object and does it compress, does it crush?

How does it interact with its surroundings?

We use them to predict where the stock market is going.

We use them to design cars and airplanes.

I don't think folks understand that behind all that is supercomputing.

Gaming technology relies heavily on graphical processing, or GPUs, instead of CPUs.

GPUs use a divide-and-conquer approach to data.

We use those same GPUs now in supercomputing to solve mathematical equations.

Fundamentally, what this will allow us to do is build larger, more powerful supercomputers.

An individual chip today can perform a trillion mathematical equations per second.

There's no end to the capabilities of the human race to make advances through mathematical simulations.

That's what excites me, to be able to see the advancements that that 12-year-old kid couldn't have imagined.

I think that girls don't get a fair representation in esports.

It is very, very important to me to show that females can do as well, or even better than men.

This Great Big Story was made possible by Some estimates say online gaming traffic will increase seven-fold by 2020.

In the male-dominated field of esports, Team Asterix has been a pioneer, giving women a chance to compete and prove themselves against their male counterparts.

I go by the nickname Furryfish, and I'm the team owner and manager of Asterix.

Asterix is a female organisation, and we are all gamers.

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