Observation for innovation

Lebbon, Cherie; Rouncefield, Mark; Viller, Stephen

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-0001-0_25

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“…60 Esports form an important part of the game publisher's business model, attracting new customers for, and increasing sales of, their games. 61 Game publishers do not perceive of themselves as custodians of artefacts of great social and cultural significance -as guardians of a sporting ideal. Profit maximisation is their primary motivating force.…”

Section: A Esports Differentiating Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Lebbon observes, '[d]rugs, such as Adderall, Ritalin and Selegiline, have been used to assist players in a number of ways including by increasing concentration, calming nerves, reducing fatigue and boosting reaction times.' 133 And esports also face their own forms of technological and mechanical doping. 134 The computer-mediated environment within which esports are played provides fertile environments for such endeavours.…”

Section: Market Power Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…155 Advocates for change point to the preceding issues as evidence of the current governance structures' failures. They also lament the lack of standardised rules and playing conditions across esports -a state of affairs Lebbon describes as 'fractured governance' 156 -and that esports de facto governing bodies (game publishers and their licensed competition organisers) govern to serve their commercial interests, and not the interests of esports qua sport. 157 Some also suggest that deficiencies in the manner with which esports are governed and regulated have (2020) Sports Law eJournal: Centre for Commercial Law, Bond University -or will in the near future -inhibit esports growth and progress.…”

Section: Governance Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing Esports: Public Policy, Regulation and the Law

Windholz

2020

Sports Law and Governance Journal

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Esport is an enigma -at once a sport; technological innovation; and profit maximizing business. As a sport, it has much in common with traditional sports. It has leagues and franchises, teams and skilled players, competitions, sponsors, broadcasters and, at the elite level, significant prize money and all the risks that come with it. As a technological innovation, it has created new markets and value networks outside the control of sports' traditional hegemony. And while many sports today generate significant revenues, esports differ because of the primacy of its profit motive. Unlike traditional sports, it does not see itself as the custodian of artefacts of great socio-cultural importance. This gives rise to a plethora of governance, policy, regulatory and legal issues. This article examines these issues through the lens of regulatory scholarship. Regulatory scholarship provides a valuable framework for examining why governments regulate in the form in which they regulate. Regulatory theory looks behind governments' stated public interest purposes to examine the impact private interests, institutional parameters, and ideational currents have on the regulatory endeavour. Regulatory scholarship enables us to look beyond traditional doctrinal law to debate the many complex issues and multiple perspectives inherent in the phenomena that is esports.

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Section: A Esports Differentiating Featuresmentioning

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