The New Athletes: Professional Esports Players Are Becoming Style Icons
On a cold day in early February, thousands of people crammed themselves into the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and spent two hours cheering (and jeering) as 12 people played video games on a stage. It was one of the first matches of the season for the Overwatch League — essentially the NBA for competitive playing of the enormously popular 2015 shooter game Overwatch — between the New York Excelsior and the Boston Uprising and it had all the hallmarks of the season ope