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The first video game tournament prize was a Rolling Stone subscription
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Decades before modern esports arenas filled with screaming fans and massive million-dollar prize pools, the world's very first organized video game tournament took place in 1972 at Stanford University. Students furiously competed for the high score in the classic spaceship shooter Spacewar. The grand prize for this groundbreaking digital battle was a simple, one-year subscription to Rolling Stone magazine.
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