The initial known gaming competition took place on 19 October 1972 at Stanford School for the game Spacewar.[15] Stanford students were asked to a "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand prize was a year's subscription 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 performed by Atari in 1980 was the initial large scale video game competition, getting more than 10,000 members across the USA, establishing competitive gambling as a mainstream hobby.[17] In the summertime of 1980, Walter Day founded a high report record keeping business called Twin Galaxies.[18] The business continued to help promote video games and publicize its records through publications including the Guinness Booklet of World Information, and in 1983 it created the U.S. National GAMING Team. The team was involved in competitions, such as operating the Video Game Masters Event...