Starcraft 1 in Korea was defacto managed by Kespa not blizzard, you can look them up, they are a Korean association, they both Kespa and blizz actually had strong spats and disagreements on it, Kespa would run sc1 not exactly like an sport, but somewhat similar to a "teenager's reality TV show" with the backdrop that the teens were playing video games competitively rather than doing wherever competitive reality TV shows do these days
Running esports like actual sports is not really how esports came to be, which is why I very much believe this to be the wrong way to go about it. These days tournament organizers care more of storylines of players battling each other than the actual sport, because that's what's relatable to viewers, humans are hardwired to like stories so now they try to leverage that more than it was done back on 2016 or so
Running esports like actual sports is not really how esports came to be, which is why I very much believe this to be the wrong way to go about it. These days tournament organizers care more of storylines of players battling each other than the actual sport, because that's what's relatable to viewers, humans are hardwired to like stories so now they try to leverage that more than it was done back on 2016 or so