Esports festival 2018 attracts crowd

Over 350 gamers and more than 1,000 spectators attended the GO Malta Esports Festival 2018 in December at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre in Ta’ Qali. The largest esports event of its kind that Malta has seen and now in its sixth edition, the event hosted the passionate gaming community present locally and from over 10 countries worldwide. Esports, a form of competition using video games, takes the form of organised multiplayer video game competition between professional players. With a total of nine tournaments and over 1.5 million viewers on live streaming across all games and the world, the impressive prize of €25,000 was split between winners of various games including CS:GO, CODBO4, Fortnite, RL, HS, LoL, PUBG, DOTA and FIFA. “Computer games have become a fixed part of our community,” Kersten James Chircop from gamers.com.mt said. “This is proven by the attendance we saw for the GO Malta Esports Festival 2018, where local and foreign gamers showed off their skills to an enthusiastic audience. With GO Malta Esports Festival we believe we have established a tournament with international power in Malta. It is and will continue to be an annual event and a worldwide...