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Ford Puma taken in forza horizon 5
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Ford escort rally, taken in forza horizon 5
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nissan GTR R32 taken in forza horizon 5
welcome to the Bridgwater and Taunton collage esports team.
you can find the games we play by clicking on the pages button and selecting the option.
esports is a new form of sporting event using video games. for example, common games include blizzard entertainment's overwatch, nintendo's super smash bros series and games such as call of duty or DOTA 2.
the history begins at stanford university in the year of 1972, students began to compete to win a 1 year subscription to the rolling stone magazine, the winner was a person called bruce baumgart.
Spacewar running on a PDP-1 system, taken by flickr user Joi Lto, licenced under creative commons attribution 2.0 generic licence
the first mainstream competition was in 1980 and involved contestants playing space invaders and getting the highest score. the winner was a person called Rebecca Ann Heineman (then known as William Salvador Heineman).
a newspaper scan of the 1980 space invader championship.
in 1993, ID software would release it's most popular game, doom. in this a new generation of E-sports was created. because of it's deathmatch multiplayer and ease of modification, doom is still quite popular in casual multiplayer gaming, but at one time, it was the most popular game, ID software's next game, quake would be even more popular for a time, with one competition even having a grand prize of being the owner of john carmack's (one of the developers) ferrari 328.