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'''Major League Gaming''', often abbreviated as '''MLG''', is a professional American gaming league founded in 2002, dedicated to competition in console gaming. Headquartered in New York City, the league has had some interaction with the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series, with ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and {{forwiiu}} having appeared on their brackets. In addition to giving more recognition to the games, some smashers from the MLG scene later became celebrities in their own right; {{Sm|Ken Hoang}}, for instance, credits the league with helping him pay for college, and he has since appeared in other television shows. In January 2016, video game publisher Activision Blizzard acquired the Major League Gaming brand, with intentions to restructure the company and spin it off into an esports television network, though this has yet to materialize. [[Microsoft]] later acquired Activision Blizzard and all its subsidiaries, including Major League Gaming, on October 13, 2023.