The International eSports Federation (or short IeSF) is the global organization founded with the intention to professionalize and govern international eSports, making it into a true sport – recognized by the governments of the respective members. Funded mostly by the Koreans, arguably the most advanced country in eSports, nine countries (Korea, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Chinese Tapei (Taiwan), Denmark and Vietnam ) started the global federation in late 2008.
I was fortunate enough to be able to travel down to Korea and visit the IeSF Challenge and attend the IeSF General Meeting as the representative of Belgium, as together with some key figures in Belgium we are trying to revamp and restyle the Belgian association (BESF or Belgian eSports Federation) and move towards that much needed government support. This article is my report of the event itself and after that a little bit more information on who the IeSF are, what their goals are and how I look upon the organization after coming into close contact with it.
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Gd blog Steven, now all they need to do is get more games involved and we can finally have an immense event such as this in (hopefully) alot more country's
Thankful some one did a cover, I was wondering how many people knew about it. I got aware of it via twitter just few days before its beginning. Nice read.
"top Warcraft III players XXXX from Korea and China" Some big names there!
I hope the games for next years event are more worldwide instead of featuring a version of Fifa only available in Asia, an only FPS which very few people in the western world play, and WC3 which is slowly dieing. That said, I hope IeSF does what it is setting out to do, but it would be nice to know what exactly are their plans, how it affects us, the gamers, and who is representing us. For example I've no idea who was part of the UK delegation.
nice read ;]
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Sick read Steven, looks amazing...
I hope the games for next years event are more worldwide instead of featuring a version of Fifa only available in Asia, an only FPS which very few people in the western world play, and WC3 which is slowly dieing. That said, I hope IeSF does what it is setting out to do, but it would be nice to know what exactly are their plans, how it affects us, the gamers, and who is representing us. For example I've no idea who was part of the UK delegation.
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And yes, I agree :)
And the UK part is basically the people trying to undo where the previous management of UKeSA went horribly wrong...
Hate being outpinged by "silver ping bar" players ;|
those are 2 attractive lads i'll tell you what
very nice jacket Eric <333