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