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International eSports players had sought visas in the past.

Use of pseudonyms is common among professional eSports players, despite the fact that most professional games are played offline.

The United States recognizes eSports players as professional athletes.

The Edge was a video games guide on how to play a particular video game at a competitive level, generally narrated by professional eSports players.

Suma1L, Pakistani eSports player.

Team Liquid acquired the League of Legends roster, as well as every other eSports player supported by the organization.

Henrik 'Admiralbulldog' Ahnberg is a Dota 2 eSports player who currently plays for Alliance.

His nephew is the professional Smite esports player Darrak Farooqi who plays for Team SoloMid.

NaDeSHoT was voted by fans as The Game Awards 2014 eSports Player of the Year.

Upon his return to Europe he became the runner-up of the 2004 Electronic Sports World Cup and was recognized as the eSports Player of 2004.

On October 27, 2014 KeSPA, alongside Riot Games and Ongamenet, issued a press release stating new policies directed toward the welfare Korean professional eSports players.

Chang "FreedoM" Youngsuk (born April 26, 1988) is a professional esports player of the real-time strategy games StarCraft and WarCraft III.

Some of the major changes include a minimum salary for professional eSports players that is competitive with popular traditional sports, and setting a 1-year minimum for contracts between players and teams starting in the 2016 season.

In the history of MYM, players and teams from MYM were featured with awards like "eSports player of the year", "eSports team of the year" and more.

Pieter Bas Kwak (born 28 July 1983 - Winterswijk, Gelderland), also known as just Kwak and before that under the pseudonym Darth, was one of the first Dutch professional esports players.

He was recognized as the greatest competitive gamer of the year 2004 by a panel of experts, and received the first of the "eSports Player of the Year" awards that have been award annually since 2004.

Le is so deft at racing down the virtual field and opening up gaps for teammates that he recently became the first so-called eSports player to be granted a type of visa normally awarded to athletes featured daily on ESPN.

Eefje Depoortere (born 16 June 1987 in Bruges, Belgium), also known as Sjokz is a Belgian television presenter, reporter, esports player, and beauty pageant contestant who is currently the host of the European League of Legends Championship Series.

It was later revealed that Moon had signed a three-year contract with the Korean team WeMade FOX for $500,000 which made him the highest paid esports player at the time, a title which was previously held by Korean professional gamer NaDa (who was also a member of WeMadeFox).

In 2009, Lindberg was nominated for the eSports Award 2009, under the category of "Regional eSports Player of the Year Northern Europe", but lost to his teammate Alesund, who won the main category for eSports Player of the Year.