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National gaming team gets Telugu touch
National gaming team gets Telugu touch. On a first meeting Ganesh Meenavalli and Hrithik V will look like any other studious ninth standard students from any part of the country. However, a close interaction with two students of Oakridge International School will leave one awestruck as they are about to achieve a first for the Telugu- speaking States.
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On a first meeting Ganesh Meenavalli and Hrithik V will look like any other studious ninth standard students from any part of the country. However, a close interaction with two students of Oakridge International School will leave one awestruck as they are about to achieve a first for the Telugu- speaking States. They are among the four who will represent India in the Major League Gaming (MLG) World Finals to be held at New Orleans from October 16 to 18. It is open to players in the 12-24 years age-group categories.
The romance of the whole thing does not end there. Ganesh is, incidentally, the captain of the national team given his prodigious in Online Gaming, which, as a sport, enjoys as much adulation and patronisation and generates as mind-boggling revenue as that in football and NBA. The ESL (Electronic Sports League) hosted tournaments in 12 stadiums across the globe, including the famed Madison Square Garden in New York being one of them.
India will be making debut this year and the four are entered in the ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Tournament in which 130 countries are participating and 176 teams will vie for an overall prize-money of six million dollars. Ganesh is being sponsored by Kling Sports, a start-up e-sports management company that is to shortly conduct e-gaming league in order to attract more of the gamers, whose numbers are rising at a phenomenal rate.
In a brief interaction with the media, they said that they wished to make careers of their gaming talent, which, they opined, would be honed further on getting the exposure in their ensuing outing. Ganesh, who was introduced and got hooked to online gaming as a four-year-old, said that he spends more time in the weekends in order to balance his passion and academic pursuits.
E-sports has become very popular and Amazon has acquired Twitch.tv, the online live streaming video gaming which has changed the scenario. e-sports earnings have recorded about $163,789 billion according to estimates. The more popular online games include League of Legends, Star Craft II, Counter Strike Global Offensive, StarCraft: Brood War, WarCrart III, Smite, Hearthstone: Heroes of WarCraft and Counter-Strike.
