The oldest eSports league in the world, South Korea’s StarCraft ProLeague, has closed down after 14-years in the business due to problems with sponsorship and match fixing scandals.

There are some of us, like me, who have been caught up in the tidal wave of eSports stories in the press, and are blown away by the immediacy of the sports growth.

And then you wake up one morning and read that South Korea’s eSports Association (KeSPA) has been running the StarCraft ProLeague for the past 14-years.

The league was the top dog when it came to the StarCraft: Brood Wars, and in 2012 switched to Starcraft II (much to the notice of most of the players).