Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Playing for Keeps -- Playing against Each Other -- Starting in Aarhus -- Korean Roots -- Researching E-sports -- Structure of the Book -- 2 Computer Games as Professional Sport -- Materiality and Pro Computer Gaming -- Rules, Negotiation, and Play -- Pro Tournament Rule Structures -- Monitoring and Managing Competition -- Gambling and Money Games -- Growing Pains? -- 3 Professionalizing Players -- From Fandom to LANs and Beyond -- Components of Pro Play -- Work and Play -- Socialization and Professionalism -- Athletic Identification and Expression -- Gender and Pro Gaming -- Just for (White) Boys? -- Becoming Pro -- 4 Growing an Industry -- Managing Play -- Funding Play -- Regulating Play -- Globalizing the Industry -- 5 Spectatorship and Fandom -- Making Room for Spectatorship and Fandom in Game Studies -- The Nature of E-sports Fandom -- The Roar, and Whisper, of the Crowd -- Spectatorship: The Still Unsolved Challenge -- Broadcast Media Challenges -- E-Sports as Entertainment: CGS Case Study -- Commentators: Making Expertise Visible -- How Spectatorship Alters the Game and Players -- Circuit between Digital Games and Traditional Sports -- 6 Conclusion -- Gamer Identity -- Mainstreaming -- Global Play -- Serious Leisure or Professional Play? -- Imagined Futures -- Assemblage, Cultural Sociology, and Computer Games -- Appendix: Standard Player Contract -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.