It’s been a red-letter year for esports as the activity’s digital nature allowed it to navigate around the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak which saw businesses, sports leagues, and entire industries falter. While crossovers with the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and Formula 1 have helped accelerate esports’ mainstream awareness, it’s betting precinct was able to reap benefits of its own.
Flurries of bettors turned to esports to satisfy their gambling appetites while operators, whose main source of sports betting and casino revenue virtually vanished, adopted the vertical out of sheer necessity. The esports betting gold rush has since simmered down with traditional sports returning to the docket, but the handle is thought to now carry on from a much more advanced place.