First videogame tournament

First videogame tournament
Quién
Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics
Qué
First
Dónde
United States (Stanford)
Cuándo
19 October 1972

The Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics is the first known videogame tournament. It was held on 19 October 1972 at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California, USA, with around 24 players reported to have competed in the 1962 space combat game Spacewar.

Spacewar is sometimes stylised as Spacewar!