The mysterious new sport poised to pass the NFL in popularity...

You've probably never even HEARD of it... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [View this email in your browser]( Fellow investor, A mysterious new sport is quietly growing faster than any other on the face of the planet... In less than two short years, estimates show that viewership of this rapidly emerging sport will have overtaken every major sports league in America aside from the NFL. [Sports viewership in the United States by 2021] As you can see in the chart above, by 2021, 84 million Americans are expected to be watching this mystery sport. Nearly triple the number that'll watch the NHL... A full 33% more than the NBA... And yes, even more than the 79 million Americans who'll tune in for MLB, our very own national pastime. Yet even though this rapidly emerging sport will quickly end up bigger than these American sports staples, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if you've never even HEARD of it. It's nothing to do with traditional sports like soccer, tennis, golf, or anything like that. Nor is it a combat sport like boxing or mixed martial arts. Or an auto-racing sport like NASCAR or Formula 1... And it's certainly not one of these oddball programs like poker or fishing that you'll occasionally flip past on ESPN at 2 in the morning. But it's become so popular... not to mention so incredibly lucrative... that some of the biggest business people and celebrities in the world are clamoring to stake their claim before word gets out: - Like Dallas Mavericks billionaire owner Mark Cuban, whom you've probably seen featured as a start-up investor on the TV show "Shark Tank." - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group. - Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans. - Former NBA superstars Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, perhaps the two greatest basketball players in history. - Not to mention actress Jennifer Lopez, former NFL star defensive lineman and current TV show host Michael Strahan, and even former MLB superstar Alex Rodriguez. As you can see, the consensus is well and truly there. But the question remains — what is this mysterious sport? And more important... how can everyday, in-the-know investors take advantage? The reason you probably can't guess the sport off the top of your head is that it's not really a "sport" at all. At least in the traditional sense. It's called "eSports." And it's about to change the world as we know it. Now, in case you've never heard of eSports, it's basically competitive video gaming. And I know what you're probably thinking... "Video games, seriously?" But make no mistake — this is nothing like what your kids or grandkids spend hours supposedly "melting their brains" on. This is a serious business with serious stakes, and the money on the line is eye-watering. Get this — eSports franchises are being constructed at a cost of as much as $20 million a pop. In 2017 alone, there were 74 of these eSports-related deals — primarily coming from angel investors and venture capitalists — totaling a truly staggering $1.52 billion. Even with numbers like those, it's hard to imagine that this past July, the total purse for the world championship of the incredibly popular game Fortnite came in at a whopping $30 million. The eventual champion — 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorf from Montgomery, PA — bested a field of 40 million to claim a first-place prize of a smooth 3 million bucks. Believe it or not, that's more than Novak Djokovic and Simon Halep took home earlier that month for winning the men's and women's singles titles at Wimbledon. And a full $1 million more than Tiger Woods earned for winning the Masters back in April. Little wonder that the list of eSports promoters tripping over themselves to get involved reads like a who's who of the world's most powerful companies: Arby's, Audi, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Gillette, Bud Light, Toyota, T-Mobile, and Intel, just to name a few. Or that Disney is in talks with video game company Activision Blizzard to broadcast their prominent Overwatch league directly on ABC and ESPN. All of that makes it easy to believe quotes like this from Tobias Sherman, Global Head of eSports at talent agency WME-IMG: "If you are a Chief Marketing Officer and you are not in esports... you are going to risk getting fired." In fact, eSports have quietly become so mainstream that universities are even giving scholarships for them. As of December 2017, the 110 colleges and universities belonging to the National Association of Collegiate Esports had issued more than $9 million in scholarships to students. There's no doubt that eSports as an industry is exploding. As you've just seen, the viewership numbers and the advertising and sponsorship dollars behind it are all off the charts. The only real question is this: How do everyday investors like us get our fair share of the profits? Fortunately, the answer is far simpler than you might expect... You see, despite eSports only now moving into the investing mainstream, it's a story Motley Fool co-founder and legendary investor David Gardner has been following for years inside his dedicated high-growth stock-picking service Motley Fool Rule Breakers. In fact, over the years, David has directed Motley Fool members to massive winners in the eSports industry like: - Nvidia +938% (10X your money!) - Activision Blizzard +1,462% (15X your money!) - And even Walt Disney +7,696% (an incredible 78X your money!) But as you've seen today, eSports are only just now starting to really take off... And inside Motley Fool Rule Breakers, David Gardner has recently isolated what could very well be THE four leaders in the eSports industry going forward, which he's revealing to Motley Fool Rule Breakers members in a special, 100% FREE report we're calling "eSports: The New Global Pastime." 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