PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' first big tournament showed it has the potential to be

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After four days of players battling it out for a share of a $350,000 prize pool, the Gamescom PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Invitational is over.
The idea of holding an invitational for a game in Early Access seems absurd, but Battlegrounds is not just any Early Access game. Currently sitting at over eight million sales in just five months, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds must be considered a video game goliath. But does it work as an esport?
It's no secret chief developer Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene wants Battlegrounds to be an esport one day. Indeed the Gamescom Invitational was a kind of dry-run for a big esports push. And it asked an important question: would people watch a Battlegrounds tournament?
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