A player exploited the time difference in eSports competitions to make a huge profit—earning $230,000 on Polymarket in March. This tactic may seem simple, but it targets the pain point of the live streaming ecosystem. The core idea is to leverage the latency window of streaming platforms. When a match is happening in real-time, major live streams experience transmission delays, so viewers see the footage with a delay of a few seconds or even ten seconds. This time gap creates an arbitrage opportunity—placing bets on the prediction market for results that have already occurred, and once delayed viewers flood in and cause price fluctuations, the difference can be exploited for profit. For eSports enthusiasts, this tests both the speed of information acquisition and a keen judgment of market liquidity.