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>90% of people watching it only care because it's something to gamble on.

This is now the raison d'etre of the vast majority of esports (especially the non-tier-1 events/leagues)

In Spain the Quiniela, a soccer based lottery where you bet on match results over a week.

The US has caught up with you...we now have a similar sort of sports betting (tho not called a 'lottery'). "Fantasy Soccer" is now a thing as well, unfortunately[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_sport

Well, is not a "lottery" because is not random, you check boxes from a paper form made of 15 matches with these options:

1 - X -2

1: Home team wins X: A draw 2: Foreign team wins

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