For now, the main video game in which the Colombian players will be competing will be the mobile shooter Free Fire, which has been recognized as one of the most played in Latin America. It is also expected to expand the list of games in which they will participate with titles such as FIFA and Valorant once the necessary competitions are held to position the players in the respective spaces.
In the other hand, eSports betting has gained much space within the Colombian sportbooks specially during the pandemic when all the sports events were cancelled. Even during the GAT expo 2021, they were one of the most dominant participants within the fair.
For 2025, it is expected that the industry grows 70% in Latam reaching the 3,500 M USD. According to projections, this year eSports will close with an audience of 800 million people, but the study projects more than one billion viewers by 2025, or one in eight people worldwide.
Colombia has learned fast from countries in Europe with this trend and has stablish some ideas that has helped the industry to enters more and more day-to-day basis. One clear example of that is the eSports bars for example that have been great space to create environments to young people spend time after most of the entertainment spaces as they were before having been damaged so much. This has boosted the participation of young players within the gambling industry.
Oficial team for 1st time: women all of them
For the first time in history, a women-only competitive eSports team will be formed in Colombia, which will develop its activities in the eSports environment in a professional manner.
Nowadays, the number of women who consider themselves "gamers" or video game fans is growing exponentially, to the point of currently being considered almost half of the active players globally, according to figures shared by the Wall Street Journal. However, those numbers are still not as high when it comes to the professional competitive scene.
According to a report by the BBC, there are currently no women in the top 300 highest-earning gamers in competitive video game events.
The main squad is made up of players Maria Camila Villafañe, Karen Meliza Varon, Helen Rodriguez, Natalia Galvis and Sundara Moreno. However, among its plans is expected to increase the number of members as the team is increasingly positioned among the rest of the competitive groups
