Interesting, I think you've hit the nail on the head re: the problem with E-Sports. To the oustider, the rules of football (kudos for the correct usage, btw) is very apparent kick the ball in the net. But if you came across a game of GvG on the telly it wouldn't be quite so simple. Obviously both games have nuances. You wouldn't expect this observer to immediately understand the offside rule or the situations which would merit an indirect free kick. But they could grasp the jist and the tools would make sense (the ball, free kicks and corners etc). With E-Sports more often than not the games have so many things going on at once that to an oustider it must seem like such a mess (hundreds of skills, many professions, classes, attributes, weapons and armour and thats just MMOs).If an E-Sport is ever going to be successful it must have timeless and simple mechanics which are at once simple to grasp, but intricate enough to be entertaining in the long term. For example: imagine some kind of PvP based upon Portal. It's an incredibly simple concept, but has the potential for such skill. I'd watch that!