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Stadiums are filling up across the globe, more and more regions are getting involved, and the mainstream success of eSports is all but guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Games like <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/rocket-league\/\">Rocket League<\/a>, which MLG has sponsored in the past, look to reinvigorate eSports just as the older games become stale, while the likes of Rainbow Six: Siege looks guaranteed to find a place among the tactical shooter juggernauts of the CS:GO variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events History COD Pro Circuit MLG Pro Circuit Major League Gaming, commonly abbreviated and referred to simply as &#8220;MLG&#8221;, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23433,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Major League Gaming esports - Esport Bet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Major League Gaming esports - Esport Bet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Events History COD Pro Circuit MLG Pro Circuit Major League Gaming, commonly abbreviated and referred to simply as &#8220;MLG&#8221;, is...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Esport Bet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-22T08:11:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mlg-feat.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@esportbetcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/\",\"name\":\"Major League Gaming esports - Esport Bet\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mlg-feat.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-12T23:43:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-22T08:11:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mlg-feat.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mlg-feat.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/major-league-gaming\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Major League Gaming esports\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/\",\"name\":\"Esport Bet\",\"description\":\"Global ESports &amp; 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