Adrianne Jeffries wrote about E-sports:

• League of Legends is the most popular E-sports game, and the servers that power it are located in Chicago.
• This means that it takes computers in Hawaii – 6,700 km away – 120 milliseconds longer for their actions to register.
• This has hamstrung Hawaii’s e-sporting professionals who have struggled to make the big leagues.
• The physicality of the internet helps explain why tournaments are hosted in big stadiums – keeping everyone on the same network in the same location evens the playing field.

Read more on The Outline.