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eSports are based on specific properties from given companies. At any given time, said company can decide to pull support for the game and disallow tournaments (e.g. Nintendo) or stop sponsoring the competitive circuit (e.g. Blizzard).
True, but that doesn't mean esports would have to die, there was esports tournaments before game companies ever got involved with more specifically controlling them.