Toronto Life

How quarantine turned e-sports into a multi-billion-dollar business

- BY JASON McBRIDE

Launching just about anything during a pandemic is a recipe for failure. Unless, that is, it’s an e-sports franchise. The

TORONTO DEFIANT, the newest entrant in the multi-billiondol­lar world of online gaming, is giving sports addicts—plus mom, dad, grandma, grandpa and at least two Toronto Raptors—their competitiv­e fix in a strange time THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN

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