The initial known video game competition took place on 19 Oct 1972 at Stanford College or university for the game Spacewar.[15] Stanford students were asked for an "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand reward was a year's membership for Rolling Natural stone, with Bruce Baumgart being successful the five-man-free-for-all event and Tovar and Robert E. Maas being successful the Team Competition.[16] The Space Invaders Championship performed by Atari in 1980 was the initial large scale gaming competition, attracting more than 10,000 individuals across the USA, establishing competitive game playing as a mainstream hobby.[17] In the summertime of 1980, Walter Day founded a high rating record keeping firm called Twin Galaxies.[18] The business went on to help promote video gaming and publicize its data through publications such as the Guinness Booklet of World Details, and in 1983 it created the U.S. Country wide Video Game Team. The team was involved in competitions, s...