The earliest known gaming competition took place on 19 October 1972 at Stanford University or college for the game Spacewar.[15] Stanford students were invited to an "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand award was a year's registration for Rolling Natural stone, with Bruce Baumgart earning the five-man-free-for-all tournament and Tovar and Robert E. Maas receiving the Team Competition.[16] THE AREA Invaders Championship presented by Atari in 1980 was the initial large scale gaming competition, attracting more than 10,000 individuals across the USA, establishing competitive video games as a mainstream hobby.[17] In the summertime of 1980, Walter Day founded a high credit score record keeping group called Twin Galaxies.[18] The business continued to help promote video gaming and publicize its data through publications such as the Guinness Reserve of World Data, and in 1983 it created the U.S. National GAMING Team. The team was involved with tournaments, such as work