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U.S Says eSports Players Are Now Professional Athletes

Published on Written Jul 15, 2013Last Updated Feb 12, 2022
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Riot Games eSports manager Nick Allen:

This was a lengthy process; we had a lot of people fighting for this and it wasn’t something that happened overnight. This was a constant back and forth of ‘show us more proof… is this realistic?’ and that sort of thing. Eventually it got to the point where they were like ‘we have no reason to say no… okay, this is legitimate’.

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Tyler Rilling is the Author and creator of Underlost. They're not an Undertale game. They're also a senior developer for a design agency in Seattle. Probably still playing too much Destiny 2.


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