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What games are esports?

Technically any video game can become and esports title and it doesn't even need to be multi-player or competitive. What generally elevates a game to an esports level is that there is some level of competition that is recognized by a organized community or professional league.Games like CS:GO and Hearthstone which are inherently competitive so professional leagues involving teams, titles, torphies and prize money were already built in. However, even single player games like Super Mario Bros can become esports through a category called speed running where competitors compete against each other two see who can finish the game the fastest and they even challenge each other at different degrees of difficulty such as finishing an entire game in the fastest time without losing a single life or health point. Some tradititional sports such as chess are still considered traditional sports however when chess is played online, it is offen viewed on esports platforms and largely by the gaming community and while all the marketing and such try to make it seem like an esports, the chess community still considers it to be a traditional sport even though it's played electronically now.

How good of a pc do you need for esports?

How good really depends on the game. There are some esports titles that don't require any high performance hardware at all such as Team Fight Tactics and Hearthstone which are slower turn based games. These types of games can probably work fine on a entry level computer with lower priced value components such as Intel i3 or i5 processors, or AMD Ryzen 3 or Ryzen 5 processors, and as low as an NVIDIA GeForce GTX or AMD Radeon RX 500 graphics cards which all together can be as cheap as $500 to $800 dollars. Another thing to consider is if the game is CPU based or GPU based, for example, Starcraft while not as prominant today in the world of esports is a highly CPU dependent esports game so when you have 10 Protoss Carriers with hundreds of Interceptors units, a low performance CPU may crash as it is incapable of processing all these units simultaneously. However, when it comes to more current mainstream esports titles such as Valorant, Player Unknown's Battlegrounds PUBG or APEX Legends, these titles will not only require high performance hardware at a base level just to play but they can maximize a players completitive edge with higher performance components. In fact for many of these Frame Per Second FPS based games, there is no realistic cap on the potential performance gains. These systems can start at at least $1500 but can go up to as high as $5000. It may not seem like much of a performance difference between 400 FPS and 500 FPS, however many of today's top esports professionals and players with phenomenal gaming abilities such as Shroud can likely take advantage of that FPS difference with stunning accuracy.

Is it cheaper to build or buy a esports gaming PC?

Just like a normal gaming PC, you can build a esports PC from scratch or buy a custom built or prebuilt esport PC for not much of a price difference. However, since esports PCs often use the highest performance components, these components such as a GeForce RTX 4090 or and Intel i9 Core processor are limited in stock, they are often rarely on sale and marked up significantly in retail. Therefore, you are more likely to pay more when buying individual high tier components while the prices for these components in prebuilt and custom built gaming PCs re regulated by the manufacturers to keep the prices reasonable.

What are the specs of an esports PC?

The specs of an esports PC depend highly on the game however the general concensus is that the higher the specs the better the performance which is in most cases always adventageous for an esports player. The only thing is to consider is that for some esports titles a PC can certainly be over spec to the point where the performance advantage has diminishing return for the higher cost. For example the difference in performance and prices between a 3090 and 4090 is significant however in an esports game like League of Legends, it may not be much of a difference competatively.