E-sports is already drawing massive crowds to packed arenas, and now League of Ireland teams are looking to join in. Ireland’s highest national football league, the League of Ireland, is following in the footsteps of the Premier League in England by becoming involved in the rapidly growing area of e-sports. The multiplayer online battle game is a permanent and dominant fixture in many e-sports tournaments, and will now see teams compete on behalf of League of Ireland football teams. Entrants into the tournament choose which League of Ireland team they want to support and then successful entrants form a team where they will compete to share a prize of €20,000. This is not the first major e-sports tournament to open to applications from Ireland, as Siliconrepublic.com discussed the Celtic eSports League with its founder, Trevor Keane, in January.