eSports Venues: A New Sport Business Opportunity

Jenny, Seth E.; Keiper, Margaret C.; Taylor, Blake J.; Williams, Dylan; Gawrysiak, Joey; Manning, R. Douglas; Tutka, Patrick

doi:10.18666/jasm-2018-v10-i1-8469

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“…This is particularly evident in events featuring national teams, focusing on the nationalist aspects prevalent in such sporting events, but also including more general sports practices such as similarities in the broadcast structure, the commentary itself, how teams and players are presented, the showing of highlights and replays, as well as the capture of audience sentiment (Turtiainen et al, 2018). Other concepts that stem from traditional sports have also been investigated within esports, for example sportsmanship, fair play and doping (Carter and Gibbs, 2013;Irwin and Naweed, 2018;Karhulahti and Kimppa, 2018), collegiate level esports (Keiper et al, 2017;Schaeperkoetter et al, 2017), sport venues (Jenny et al, 2018), ergonomics (Paravizo and de Souza, 2018), and the legal rights and career aspects of players/athletes (Bayliss, 2016;Salo, 2017).…”

Section: Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

Hilvert-Bruce

Neill

Sjöblom

et al. 2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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Section: Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

Hilvert-Bruce

Neill

Sjöblom

et al. 2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…In the preceding years, esports slowly grew as an area for serious academic research. Recently, the rate of this work has intensified as the size of the esports industry has grown considerably in the past few years (Jenny et al, 2018). Total revenue for the esports industry approached roughly $1 billion in 2018 as more than 380 million people around the world watched various competitions (Willingham, 2018).…”

Section: The Growth Of Esportsmentioning

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The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

Darvin

Vooris

Mahoney

2020

JADE

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The eSport industry has seen rapid growth over the previous decade with additional opportunities for participants to compete in competitive and casual environments. As such, the sport industry has taken notice of this increase in popularity and exposure for eSport. A recent call to arms by sport management scholars suggests that the field of sport management needs to broaden research endeavors to include analyses of eSport and eSport spaces. To that end, this investigation serves as one of the first that investigates the playing experiences of eSport participants with a particular focus on the presence of discrimination and hostility in playing environments for men and women competitors. Previous events within the eSport industry, such as the now infamous harassment of female gamers known as Gamergate, suggests that female eSport players may experience discrimination and hostility at higher rates than their male counterparts. Guided by the frameworks of hegemonic masculinity and treatment discrimination, this investigation gauged the experiences of men and women eSport participants with discrimination and hostility in eSport playing environments. Results indicated that female eSport participants reported experiencing instances of treatment discrimination more frequently than their male counterparts, while male participants reported experiencing hostility more frequently. Results aim to assist the eSport industry as well as sport management scholars in guiding new policy to create inclusive spaces for eSport enthusiasts and career hopefuls.

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“…The largest tournaments, such as Dreamhack, World Cyber Games, Major League Gaming Tournament or Intel Extreme Masters, are projects focused not only on the players but also on the audience (Jenny et al, 2018). These events highly resemble sporting contests (Heere, 2018;Holden, Kaburakis, & Rodenberg, 2017).…”

Section: Tournaments and Esports Leaguesmentioning

confidence: 99%

eSports Evolution in Football Game Series

Zagała

Strzelecki

2019

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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Sport used to be practiced and watched only live. Over time, it started to be broadcast by the radio or television. The development of sport on the Internet has led to the emergence of eSports and professionalization of virtual sports competitions. For some gamers playing computer games has turned into competition and later into the professionalization of the game. This paper explores the topic of electronic sports and virtual competition. It discusses eSports and the accompanying behaviors and practices. Authors delivered taxonomy of video game types, game modes and current phenomenon of both online and land-based tournaments as well eSports leagues. The paper also illustrates how gamers are preparing themselves for tournaments and a crucial role of gamers’ motivation. Authors present the FIFA football games series and its eSports application. The adopted research method allowed to obtain answers from n=452 gamers. Results show that 60% of gamers have been spending more than 7 hours a week playing games. More than half of gamers have been playing for more than ten years. Most players play in games because it is considered as a hobby. Most of the gamers consider eSports as a sport. Most of the players are also spectators, who had watched in streaming at least one eSports tournament We find that FIFA game series has an extensive eSports platform and filled the gap by exploring it. Gamers usually play 40 games each weekend in FIFA eSports league but casual eSports gamers and spectators rarely take part in land-based tournaments.

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eSports Venues: A New Sport Business Opportunity

Cited by 99 publications

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Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

eSports Evolution in Football Game Series

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