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Electronic sports, or eSports for short, is an athletic activity that involves players using electronic devices to compete in a multiplayer game. It’s no different than traditional sports - there are teams and fans who follow them, as well as punters who know the ins and outs of the eSports industry. With million-dollar prizes for tournaments in games such as Call of Duty, LoL and DOTA, there’s always a fixture or two to follow. eSports History When a group of Stanford students organised a Spacewar tournament at their uni in 1972, they probably weren't aware that they'd just put together the first eSports competition. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, arcade gaming was all the craze. As such, arcade owners would rake in copious amounts of money from organising face-to-face tournaments. However, this still wasn't the form of multiplayer gaming we all know and love today. Players did compete in the same game but on different devices. The first title that popularised 1 v 1 gaming on the same console was 1991's Street Fighter II. At the end of the decade, PC games joined the mix, with Starcraft, Warcraft, Quake, and CS GO all having semi-professional leagues. The true revolution occurred in South Korea in the 2000s. Internet cafes began popping up all over the country, and entire television stations were set up to bring players live action from the biggest tournaments and leagues. In the 2010s, the first eSports bookies appeared. Since there were already plenty of competitions year-round, the transition was smooth. From the very beginning, punters were able to access a variety of markets, including some new niches such as CS:GO skin betting. Nowadays, everything is standardised, and regulators treat eSports just as they would footy or cricket. eSports Betting As fun as it is, eSports betting can seem a bit daunting. Such a large amount of markets, games and tournaments can be confusing, even if you're an experienced punter. Our team is aware of this, and we're here to help you understand how everything w
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British novelist Hilary Mantel has become the betting favorite in the odds for the 2009 Booker Prize, with the popularity of her book Wolf Hall propelling her to 3.00 outright favoritism at Ladbrokes.South African J.M. Coetzee, who won the award previously in 1983 and 1999, was installed as favorite to win it a third time after his fictionalized memoir Summertime was announced as one of the 13 books on the longlist - or Man Booker Dozen - two weeks ago, but he has since slipped to equal-third in the odds at 8.00.Colm Toibin is second favorite at 6.00 for his work Brooklyn, while Sarah Waters appears to be the other strong contender for her work The Little Stranger. She is level with Coetzee at 8.00.The surprise emergence of Mantel contradicts initial Ladbrokes predictions - a spokesman was quoted by British newspaper The Guardian two weeks ago as saying Coetzee's reputation would have literary punters "quick to back the author's bid to create history."Books GiveawaysTo celebrate the longlist announcement the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London will see book lover Graham Fudger on Tuesday, 11 August at 11am reading extracts from the prize's 13 longlist titles.One of each of the books will be given away to the public.Man Booker PrizeThe Man Booker Prize for Fiction, or simply the Booker Prize, is a literary award given each year for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of a Commonwealth country or Ireland. In the past it has been won by such big names as India's Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, 1981), Australia's Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark, 1982) and India's Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, 1997).This year's prize has seen active betting so far, largely for the high profile author Coetzee and his celebrated chances to win for an unprecedented, third time.The 2009 winner will be announced on Sunday September 6.
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