on monday night the university of kansas came back to beat north carolina and win the national championship in a thrilling end to march madness those elite basketball stars who generate millions of dollars for their schools now have some company on campus in a new kind of well athlete recruited for fast thumbs and world-class skills in front of a gaming screen nbc's carrie sanders explains in our sunday spotlight 12 year old angel rodriguez plays video games as if he's in a trance oh my god that
's crazy but those purposeful twitches instinctive clicks are now more than just fun and games what moms and dads may have once perceived as just a waste of time has become a legit pathway to college close to 250 universities and counting now offer esports scholarships on average twenty four hundred dollars to a new category of video game athletes major d1 colleges throughout the nation giving scholarship for playing video games yup you say it's a matter of factly and i sit here going early i do
believe in maybe you know just a few years we'll be looking at this like a traditional sport just like college sports has the ncaa esports now has its own governing body the national association of collegiate esports it used to be the athletic department at the university wouldn't touchy sports professor michelle harrell who teaches the business of esports at the university of south florida says the lines in the world of sports and esports are being redrawn because so much money is at stake wor
ldwide esports competitions are 175 billion dollar business on its current track next year it's projected to hit 200 billion so the nfl on average you have 17 million viewers in esports where people are playing video games competitively you're looking at 27 million people and so we can conclude that already esports which is only just starting to get the major sponsors could equal the nfl i i believe so which may explain why nfl owners like bob kraft of the new england patriots is now a major inv
estor in esports leagues so i'm kind of like yeah it's definitely not something to ignore alex madskin who played football in college is now an esports coach if all sports are a matter of statistics here's his favorite in 2019 a 17 year old kid that plays by the name of buga won the fortnite world championship and he won three million dollars for that same year tiger woods wins the masters he won two million dollars more than tiger woods yep a name that i've never heard of campuses like usf are
taking notice spending 27.4 million dollars to build what will house an esports stadium but it comes with challenges esports is dominated by a single sex nace says more than 80 percent of scholarships go to males why are there so few women doing this the gaming community has not been too friendly in the recent years towards you know women in the space with college scholarship money now a thing oh that's scary players stand to win more than just a game for sunday today i'm carrie sanders in tampa
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