By Kane Fulton
Introduction
ESports has turned into the rebel of the entertainment world in recent years, skulking around like a moody teenager tanked up on Mountain Dew. The scene is becoming infamous for players breaking their contracts, taking performance-enhancing drugs and generally testing their sponsors’ patience. And they’re the well-behaved ones.
Those controlling the industry from behind closed doors aren’t much better: increasingly demanding fixture schedules, tournaments being blighted by technical issues and cases of player mismanagement have long become the norm.
Formed in a bid to restore order to the chaos, the World eSports Association (or WESA)’s arrival doesn’t feel before time. The self-appointed governing body won’t host leagues or tournaments itself but instead plans to apply a framework based on “fairness, transparency and integrity” to sanction and support the growth of existing ones around the world. In short: it seeks to raise the profile of eSports while giving everybody involved a helping hand along the way.
It should be noted that WESA operates separately to the sports “integrity initiative“, a coalition set up to regulate problems of doping, cheating and match-fixing in eSports. However, it shares many of the same goals.
Asking questions
The problem held up by WESA’s detractors …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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