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The Indian Premier League

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  Brittanica  would define this league better than I would, so,  Indian Premier League (IPL), Indian professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league established in 2008. The league, which is based on a round-robin group and knockout format, has teams in major Indian cities. The brainchild of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the IPL has developed into the most lucrative and most popular outlet for the game of cricket. Matches generally begin in late afternoon or evening so that at least a portion of them is played under floodlights at night to maximize the television audience for worldwide broadcasts. Initially, league matches were played on a home-and-away basis between all teams, but, with the planned expansion to 10 clubs (divided into two groups of five) in 2011, that format changed so that matches between some teams would be limited to a single encounter . The top four teams contest three play-off matches, with one losing team being given a second chance to reach th
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The World of Fictional sports: Quidditch

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  I believe a lot of us have already been familiarized with Ms. JK Rowling’s wizarding world, the beautiful magic she weaved through words that left most of the world in a trance. Harry Potter, being the second best-selling book in the world after the bible has to be the biggest name in fictional history. It brought with it education for the children, powerful messages about love and friendship, a crazy fandom and an entirely new fictional sport: Quidditch! I told you, I didn’t want a generic sports blog, and afterall, any game that involves autonomous purple balls being hurled at the players is not generic at all. Quidditch (formerly known as Kwidditch and Cuaditch) was a wizarding sport played on flying broomsticks . It was the most popular and well-known game among wizards and witches , and, according to Rubeus Hagrid , the wizard equivalent to Muggles' passion for football . Football, here, being American Football, not to be confused with European Football. The game was play
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E-sports: The Future

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When people think of sports, they think of physical, strenuous activities that are played in stadiums, grounds, pitches, et cetera. They would be mostly right, because in a conventional way, games like football, cricket, basketball, badminton are physical and strenuous activities. I, however, see hundreds of millions of people talk about the same thing over, and over again. I will save you the numbers, the statistics, the player names, the big bucks, because today, I want to speak of the world of digital sports: e-sports. E-sports, or electronic sports, is a type of multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators , typically by professional gamers. E-sports have become such a global phenomenon, that it turned video games into spectator sport. Switch your conventional sports channels with Twitch and YouTube, set up a good number of snacks, and you are ready to go!  The toptal defines it as “Esports, short for “electronic sports,” transforms online gaming into a spectator sp
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