Sejarah Turnamen Esports Pertama di Dunia

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Spacewar menjadi game pertama yang dipertandingkan di Turnamen Esports Pertama di dunia. (Dede Sopatal Mauladi/Skor.id)
Spacewar menjadi game pertama yang dipertandingkan di Turnamen Esports Pertama di dunia. (Dede Sopatal Mauladi/Skor.id)

SKOR.id - Esports saat ini bisa dibilang merupakan ''anak baru'' di dalam industri olahraga di Indonesia dan Dunia.

Esports mulai dikenal luas oleh publik sejak adanya era pandemi akibat virus Covid-19 beberapa tahun belakangan.

Dari awalnya hanya beberapa saja turnamen esports, kini sudah banyak turnamen esports dengan banyak variasi game yang dipertandingkan.

Turnamen-turnamen kelas kecil, menengah, besar, nasional hingga internasional pun ramai digelar oleh berbagai macam kalangan.

Tak jarang turnamen esports mengisi sejumlah acara seperti ulang tahun atau perayaan sesuatu hal dari beberapa perusahaan maupun industri.

Bahkan kini esports pun sudah masuk ke dalam kalender olahraga multi event seperti SEA Games dan Asian Games.

Tidak bisa dipungkiri, Esports memang menjadi salah satu penyumbang prestasi dengan berhasil membawa sejumlah gelar dari sejumlah turnamen game.

Namun banyak yang bertanya-tanya sebenarnya kapan, apa turnamen esports dan game apa yang dipertandingkan pertama kali digelar.

Merujuk dari berbagai sumber, turnamen esports yang pertama kali digelar adalah turnamen game Spacewar yang berlangsung di tahun 1972!

Kompetisi atau turnamen esports yang pertama kali digelar bertajuk Intergalactic Spacewar Olympic yang berlangsung di salah satu kampus tertua di dunia Stanford.

Sesuai namanya game yang dimainkan adalah game Spacewar yang dibuat oleh  Steve Russell, Martin Graetz, Peter Samson, Wayne Witaenem, dan masih banyak lagi.

Spacewar berlatar di ruang angkasa, game ini melibatkan sejumlah pesawat yang saling menembak sembari terus bermanuver.

Game ini dibuat oleh Steve Russell dan rekan-rekannya secara bersama-sama sebelum akhirnya resmi bisa dimainkan pada 1962.

Setelah resmi dirilis kemudian Spacewar mencapai popularitas dengan cepat, sejumlah kampus-kampus di Amerika Serikat dan Kanada.

Di masa itu para mahasiswa dan peneliti kampus-kampus yang rutin memainkan game Spacewar ini di sela kegiatan mereka.

Maka pada tahun 1972 itulah digelar turnamen Spacewar di Kampus Stanford yang menjadi turnamen esports pertama yang diikuti sekitar 24 orang.

Bruce Baumgart menjadi sosok yang berhasil menjadi pemenang dalam turnamen Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics ini.

Pada tahun 2016 di majalah Rolling Stone, Bruce Baumgart menceritakan bagaimana soal kompetisi yang menjadi cikal bakal turnamen esports.

“Kumpulan bintang pada latar game adalah bintang sebenarnya dari Spacewar,” ucap Baumgart dalam wawancaranya di Rolling Stone pada 2016.

“Saat memainkannya, kita tak lagi memikirkan tombol. Prosesnya sudah seperti ketika kita mengetik cepat. Maksudnya, kita cuma fokus menatap pesawat di layar sembari terus menggerakkannya ke arah manapun sesuai keinginan,” ujarnya.

Dalam kompetisi Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics tersebut memang bukan uang yang menjadi hadiah utama dari pemenangnya.

Berlangganan majalah Rolling Stone selama satu tahun menjadi hadiah yang didapatkan oleh Bruce Baumgart saat memenangi turnamen tersebut.

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