• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/01/asia/us-philippines-base-access-agreement-intl-hnk-ml" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">The Philippines</a> allowed the US to set up four additional military bases in the country, boosting Washington's efforts to counter China by having a strategic advantage to monitor activities in the South China Sea and Taiwan. US and Philippines' military expansion plan is part of the full implementation of the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).

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According to the ‘Turkish startup ecosystem 2022 HI’ report published by <a fr-original-style="" href="https://startups.watch/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Startups.watch</a>, the fact that the Turkish gaming industry received 333 million investments in the first 6 months of the year and received the most investments in the game sector in Europe drew attention to the seriousness of this potential once again.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">First of all: What is e-sports?</h2>In short, e-sports stands for the world of organised video games in which professional players or teams in professional leagues compete within the framework of competition. Opponents from different leagues or teams, namely e-athletes, compete fiercely in popular video games such as Fortnite, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, Overwatch, and Madden NFL. Meanwhile, many game enthusiasts, and we are talking about millions here, follow these games on online platforms or by participating in organised events, just like watching a sports competition. Through streaming platforms such as Twitch, gamers can watch their favourite e-athletes, and e-athletes can build their own fanbase.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The very first e-sports tournament in history</h2>Although it is a concept that we have been frequently hearing in recent years, the roots of e-sports actually date back about 50 years. Due to the introduction of computer technologies into our lives in the 50s and the video games becoming a part of our lives for the next 20 years, the event that is considered the first video game tournament in history <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ispo.com/en/markets/history-esports-how-it-all-began" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">took place</a> on October 19, 1972.&nbsp;<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/10/3/1669803211378.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.49" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">'Spacewar' — Wikimedia CommonsOn this date, 24 players came together at the ‘Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics’ hosted by Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to compete in ‘Spacewar’, known as the world's first digital computer game, and with this event, the foundations of the e-sports world were established. In the years after this tournament, where the winner received only a one-year ‘Rolling Stones’ subscription as a prize in contrast to today's millions of dollars, the unstoppable rise of e-sports began with events of games such as Asteroids and Space Invaders.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">So, who are e-sports watchers?</h2>In fact, Asian countries make up a large proportion of e-sports watchers. Based on 2019 data; 40% of internet users in China, 33% in Vietnam, 29% in the Philippines, 26% in Indonesia, 25% in Thailand, 24% in India,19% in South Korea, 19% in the United Arab Emirates, 17% in Taiwan, and 16% in Turkey <a fr-original-style="" href="https://cyberathletiks.com/how-many-people-watch-esports/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">watch&nbsp;</a>official e-sports tournaments.&nbsp;According to data shared by Newzoo, a total of 435.7 million people <a fr-original-style="" href="https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/the-esports-audience-will-pass-half-a-billion-in-2022-as-revenue-engagement-esport-industry-growth?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">watched</a> e-sports, 220.5 million being occasional and 215.2 million being regular viewers. In 2021, this number increased by 240 million, from 249.5 million to 489 million; whereas in 2022, it rose from 270.9 million to 532 million, with an increase of 261.2 million. According to Newzoo, a total of 640.8 million people will have been e-sports watchers by 2025.In addition, while the number of people who watched the NBA finals in 2016 was 31 million, the number of people who watched the League of Legends world finals match was 43 million is another indicator of the rising popularity of e-sports.When it comes to the gender of e-sports fans, although there is a misconception that, as in most sports, males have an overwhelming majority, we can say that this perception has now been changed according to the data published in recent years. The distribution of e-athletes aged 18 and over in the USA, where 38% were women and 62% were men in 2006, is <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">45% female and 55% male</a>.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Huge market value</h2>The value of the global esports market, which was worth 906 million dollars in 2018, is over 1.38 billion dollars by 2022. Nevertheless, the e-sports market is <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/490522/global-esports-market-revenue/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">projected to</a> continue to grow and reach a value of&nbsp;1.86 billion dollars by 2025. The e-sports market of Asia and North America, where only China currently makes up one-fifth of, is one of the world's largest e-sports markets in terms of value.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">E-sports in Turkey</h2>According to Riot Games Turkey Manager Bora Koçyiğit, e-sports games stand out as the second most watched sport after football in Turkey. While highlighting that this fact e-sports is among the rising trends in Turkey, Orlando Carlo Calumeno, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the e-sports team fastPlay WildCats, who participated in the Bloomberg HT Business World program in 2021 and evaluated the Turkish market, states that there are 85 to 90 professional e-sports teams in Turkey, while there are thousands in the amateur league. Calumano also adds that the Turkish e-sports sector is a market worth&nbsp;850 million to 950 million dollars.&nbsp;<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/10/3/1669803335912.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="2.82" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">via Startups.watch&nbsp;On the other hand, according to Newzoo data, as of 2018, there are more than 4 million e-sports viewers in Turkey. According to Gaming in Turkey, at least 29 million out of over 46 million people&nbsp;with internet access in Turkey actively play video games.

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What is e-sports, how e-sports watchers follow the games, and what does the future hold for the sector?

Will e-sports be an alternative to football?

<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/0/1659285042660.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.98" width="550" alt="Markets Recap" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Year-to-date price changes. Prices at markets close.• Central bank action continues this week, with both the RBA and the BOE expected to hike rates by 50bps following a 75bps rate hike by the FOMC last week. However, the attention could shift to the labor market and if the US would go into a "real recession" as the world's largest economy entered a "technical recession".<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Monday Tory members to start voting on the next UK PM; Global manufacturing PMIs: Eurozone, Germany, France, US ISM, UK, China Caixin; Eurozone, Italy unemployment.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tuesday US Secretary of State Blinken to attend the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Cambodia, and visit the Philippines; Spain unemployment; UK house prices RBA rate decision.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wednesday Eurozone PPI, retail sales; Germany trade balance; Global services PMIs: Eurozone, Germany, UK, US ISM, Russia, China Caixin; Turkey, Switzerland CPI; OPEC+ meeting on output, EIA crude oil inventory report.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thursday Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to debate for UK Tory leadership; Eurozone ECB publishes its economic bulletin; US initial jobless claims; UK BOE, Hungary rate decision.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friday Russian President Putin to meet with Turkish President Erdogan in Sochi, Russia; Germany, France, Italy, Spain industrial production; US unemployment.</li></ul>

• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-boxing-elections-presidential-election-2020-ac84e36e1f1efbb1a96d37edff9217da" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Ferdinand Marcos Jr.</a>, the namesake son of the longtime dictator, declared victory in the Philippines' presidential elections that took place on Monday, according to unofficial results. If the results stand, he will be in office with Sara Duterte as the vice president who is the daughter of the outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/4/3/1652287052545.jpeg" style="display: block; float: none; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.79" width="550" alt="Ferdinand Marcos Jr." fr-original-style="display: block; float: none; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">via VOA<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zoom in: Marcos Jr's landslide victory raised immediate concerns about the state of democracy in Asia and could complicate <a fr-original-style="" href="https://apnews.com/article/business-china-elections-presidential-philippines-07966d48907ea11a910d8aecbcb8db7b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">US's growing efforts to blunt China's influence</a> in the Pacific. But Marcos' simple message to the world was, "judge me not by my ancestors, but by my actions."</li></ul>

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