E Sports history By beauty of dawn Oct 19, 1972 spacewar championship 10,000 participants 1990 Nintendo World Championship it help set up interest in Esports. 1994 Nintendo PowerFest ‘94 it help set even more interest in esports. Nov 14, 1998 Starcraft 2 tournament 50 million participants Oct 27, 2009 League Of Legends is released and become a Esports. Jul 18, 2013 Dota 2 released become popular in esports Jun 10, 2014 Super smash brothers for Wii-U tournament E3 2014 it was the first time that Nintendo did Esports for many years.