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PGT is a eSport news website and community, as well as a sponsor of eSport events, founded by Bart Simpson.

History
The website was founded on June 24 2010 by Bart Simpson under the domain www.progamingtours.net. The goal of this website when launched was to provide gamers information on eSports.

Tournaments and Events
Announced in a article in 2011, PGT has over 10,000,000 USD in recorded tournament prize pools for eSports. Each tournament has its own static page with information related to the tournament including the source. Also announced in the same article was their goal of allowing users to submit tournaments to be manually approved by PGT staff. This feature would allow the site to include more small prize pool tournaments.

eSport Resources
PGT also includes a eSport rankings section that shows the total prize pool of popular eSports back to 2010. The prize pool totals are made up of the above mentioned tournaments researched by PGT. With the tournament database and other researched data mentioned on the eSport rankings FAQ page PGT is able to determine what games are going to be the most profitable and popular eSports for gamers to play. The purpose of this is to give professional gamers the information they need to pick their next game based on how much money they can make. Also event organizers, casters and other eSports enthusiasts can determine what eSports are worth investing in.

An example of when this would be useful is comparing League of Legends, DotA 2 and Heroes of Newerth. As they are three games of the same genre Action RTS it is beneficial for professional gamers to know which game is the best developed eSport.

Community Contributions
As well as providing eSports news and resources for gamers PGT sponsored two StarCraft 2 Toronto LANs in 2011. These LANs were sponsored by PGT and hosted by StarCraft2North.

The first LAN took place August 20th, 2011 and had a $1,000 USD prize pool. This tournament was won by CombatEX.

The second LAN took place Ocotober 8th 2011 and had a $550 USD prize pool. This tournament was won by NrGostojiy.