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Pew Research Center, 51            Shenandoah University, 59
               Pham, Anathan “ana,” 11            shooter games
               Pham, Peter, 52                      first-person, 16
               Philadelphia Fusion (esports         third-person, 17–19
                 team), 29                        Siege (first-person shooter game),
               players                              16, 54
                 average salary of, 29            Skipper, John, 9
                 as foundation of esports, 24     Sotala, Joona “Serral,” 16
                 game house living for, 27–29     Special Force II (first-person
                 importance of teams to, 37–38      shooter game), 16
                 lack of security for, 30         sports games, 20–22
                 route from amateur to pro,       Spoto, Michael, 21–22
                   24–26                          StarCraft II (real-time strategy
               PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds        game), 15–16, 25
                 (PUBG, third-person shooter      Staurowsky, Ellen, 64
                 game), 17, 19                    Strahan, Michael, 48
               PlayVS (high school esports        Street Fighter (fighting game),
                 organization), 52, 53–54, 73       19–20, 35
               Project CARS Electronic Sports     subscribers, 29
                 League, 22                       Super Smash Bros (fighting
               PSG.LGD (esports team), 12           game), 20, 54
               PUBG Global Championship, 19
               Puyo Puyo (tile-matching puzzle    Taavitsainen, Topias Miikka
                 game), 23                          “Topson,” 11, 12
                                                  Team Fortress 2 (first-person
               racing games, 22                     shooter game), 16
               Rainbow Six (first-person shooter   teams
                 game), 16, 54                      college, growth in, 51
               real-time strategy games, 15         high school, 51–54, 56–58
               Reddish, Cam, 43                      guide to building, 55
               Rent, Kerwin, 58                     importance of, 37–39
               Reyes, Mariel Soto, 49–50            as magnet for advertisers,
               Robert Morris University, 60, 61      39–40
               Rodriguez, Alex, 8, 41, 48           owners of, 43–44
                                                  Tekken (fighting game), 20
               Schmale, Michael “SpaceLy,” 27,    Tenney, Turner Ellis “Tfue,” 32–
                 29, 30                             33
               704Games (video game               Tetris (tile-matching puzzle
                 developer), 22                     game), 23




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