The earliest known gaming competition occurred on 19 Oct 1972 at Stanford College or university for the game Spacewar.[15] Stanford students were asked to the "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand reward was a year's membership for Rolling Rock, with Bruce Baumgart earning the five-man-free-for-all event and Tovar and Robert E. Maas earning the Team Competition.[16] THE AREA Invaders Championship organised by Atari in 1980 was the initial large scale gaming competition, bringing in more than 10,000 members across the United States, establishing competitive games as a mainstream hobby.[17] In the summertime of 1980, Walter Day founded a high score record keeping business called Twin Galaxies.[18] The organization continued to help promote video games and publicize its information through publications including the Guinness E book of World Documents, and in 1983 it created the U.S. National Video Game Team. The team was involved with tournaments, such as running the...