IncGamers: Whether or not ‘e-sports’ or ‘competitive gaming’ is a real sport or not is up for debate. Personally, I don’t think it is (for reasons that I’m not going to waste 800 lines explaining).
However, Nadeo’s live producer on Shootmania Edouard Beauchemin believe that it is and that it is already challenging the viewing figures for “some” traditional sports.
As far as Shootmania is concerned, the team at Nadeo designed it with e-sports in mind; both for competitors and spectators.
One Angry Gamer "Now here’s a bit of news you probably didn’t see coming: Nadeo has announced that you can gain free access to their ManiaPlanet games right now, no strings attached. You download the free demo and for 48 hours straight you can play the ManiaPlanet titles for free."
Shootmania Platform, developed by Nadeo, will be free in its current beta form for the whole summer.
The Trackmania games rarely go on sale, so getting any and/or all of them is a recommendation.
where do people get this notion from? Competitive gaming is not a real sport period.
so what is it a challenger to? the over 65s skateboarding championship? wheelchair tennis?
gimme a break. sports get way, way, way more viewers than half a million. to say it's a challenger because of that number is silly.