[Lu Stout:] Welcome back. Now an American team has won the biggest prize in competitive video games, scooping up more than $6 million at The International. Now the team called Evil Geniuses, they beat the Chinese team Sedeck in the final. Now the tournament pits the best teams in the world at the game DOTA 2, it's a multiplayer battle arena game that's a little like chess crossed with capture the flag. Even Geniuses are the first team from North America ever to win The International. Now one of the stars at The International was 16-year-old Pakistani Said Hassan, also known as Sumail. He is the youngest player on the Evil Geniuses team, and the least experienced. He only rose to prominence earlier this year, helping his team to victory in the DOTA Asia championships when he was only 15. Now, he is the youngest ever champion in The International history. Now living in Pakistan Sumail actually grew up without his own computer and even sold his bike so he can keep gaming. And it paid off. Again, they earned $6.6 million as the winners of The International. And take a look at how that compares to other sports right here on the chart. Australia earned under $4 million for winning this year's cricket World Cup. The U.S. team earned just $2 million for winning the women's World Cup in football. And Jordan Speith, he took home just under $2 million for winning the masters. And what makes this even more impressive is that The International is only in its fifth year. So the prize may only increase in the years ahead. Now, there's now less than one year to go until the start of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Now golf and seven a side rugby are both being added to the program for the first time in years. However, the organizers passed up the chance to include some of Brazil's favorite sports. Shasta Darlington has more.
[Shasta Darlington, Cnn International Correspondent:] Jumping into the abyss and harnessing the wind currents. It may not be an Olympic sport, but it's all the rage in Rio. So, maybe against my better judgment, I give it a try. Oh my gosh, all right. Oh my god. OK. OK. Once the shock wears off, amazing views of Pedro De Gavia and San Cohado beach. And according to my guide Eddie Colliveda, Brazilian paragliders have proposed to include it in the Olympics. If this were an Olympic sport, we would be traveling 50 kilometers from one city to another. I'm loving it, but I don't know if I would want to go 50 kilometers. That might be too much. Finally, a smooth landing. It was amazing. It was amazing. Once you get up there, you feel like a bird. And we soon discover other wouldbe Olympic sports like footchu volley, kind of like beach volleyball, but played without using hands or arms invented in Rio when football was banned from the beach. "We're fighting to make it an Olympic sport," he says. "It's beautiful to play and to watch." Of course, it's obvious which country would win. Another uniquely Brazilian sport Capoeira invented by African slaves to disguise martial arts as a dance, always to the twang of [inaudible]. Maybe not an Olympic sport. "It's difficult to imagine a competition with points for this or that, who wins, who loses," he says. "But it's part of our culture." Culture that will be on display across the city in 2016. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
[Lu Stout:] Oh, great color there from Rio. And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere, World Sport with Christina McFarlane is next. END