Streams did become more available as time went on, allowing for commentary and other broadcast features to begin. There were no observers, meaning you had to follow the action yourself. However, this "TV" experience remained far from the clean and polished products of today. If you wanted to watch a match live, you had to be there in person, or use the game’s ‘TV’ feature whereby you could connect to the tournament server (with a delay). At the beginning, fans had to join IRCs (Internet Relay Chats), waiting for results to come in and replays to be uploaded. The vehicles we use today to watch and follow esports simply did not exist. There was no Twitch, no YouTube - not even Twitter. It’s important to remember how different 2001 was to today. The format was another factor, with the best of 30 round games (MR15) giving both sides ample opportunity to change the momentum of a match. Yet, even more important than aim was positioning, allowing Counter-Strike to reach a depth far higher than its ‘twitchy’ FPS nature might have implied. There was the surface level excitement of incredibly precise aim, visibly challenging recoil and high intensity clutches.
Tournament organisers like ClanBase, LAN Arena, and World Cyber Games joined CPL to create a true circuit of tournaments with prize pools in the thousands.Ĭounter-Strike had all the makings of a great esport. But in 2001, the esports side of Counter-Strike took off. Two months later, CPL would host the first top-tier events for the game, originally as a sideshow to the still more popular Quake. In 2000, Valve had seen enough they bought the rights to CS from Le and Cliffe, and in September version ‘1.0’ was released to the public. 1999 saw 17 versions of the beta, with the game getting closer and closer to its final form. Le had started work on Counter-Strike a year earlier, before the SDK (software development kit, the tool that makes modding possible) was even released.
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But it was Counter-Strike, the 1999 Half-Life mod made in a college bedroom, that would be the first team-based esport to truly explode in popularity. As internet cafes became more and more popular in the 1990s, games like Street Fighter, Quake, and StarCraft all had their first tournaments. When Minh Le and Jess Cliffe released the first beta of Counter-Strike, esports was still in its infancy.
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