The year of 2012 has been a year for IeSF to prepare a foothold for a new leap as IeSF has successfully prepared e-sport’s entry into the customized sports world, which has been the dearest wish and one of the most important mission of IeSF and its fans.
It is reflected from the achievement of IeSF that e-sports have been included as one of the official sport disciplines of 4th Asia Indoor & Martial Arts Games(AIMAG), which is one of the mega-multi-sports events hosted by Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).
The 4th AIMAG will be held over eight days in Incheon, Korea, from June 29 to July 6, 2013. Featuring 12 sports disciplines, with approximately 2,400 participants from 45 Asian nations, the 4th AIMAG will be a high-profile test event for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon the following year.
The 4th AIMAG consist of 12 sports disciplines:Billiard (10 gold medals), Bowling (6), Chess (4),Baduk (4), Dance Sport (10), Futsal (2), Kabaddi (2),Kickboxing (9), Muay Thai (9), Kurash (8), Short Course Swimming (30) and Electronic Sports (6), and players will be competing for total of 100 gold medals.
Events for e-sports discipline consist of 6 titles with total of 6 gold medals: Special Force, Starcraft II,Tekken Tag tournament 2, League of Legends, FIFA13, and Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed. For more information, please refer to the link: http://www.aimag2013.org/en
Furthermore, the 61st OCA Executive Board in its meeting has authorized the International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) to conduct the e-sports competition as the counterpart to International Governing Body for e-sports during the 4th AIMAG in coordination with the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee(IAGOC).
As taking this responsibility, IeSF has designed and approved rules & regulations for Technical Handbook for e-sports discipline.
On 23 November 2012, the Chefs de Mission Seminar was successfully held. During the Chefs de Mission Seminar, IAGOC provided the “Technical Handbooks”.
The entry application system is operated through total of 3 phases: Entry by Sport, Entry by Number and Entry by Name (Final Entry).
IAGOC have just completed receiving the Entry by Sport. The result of Entry by Sport is as shown in the box below, and the feature of the actual Entry will be more specifically surfaced, and may be changed by the time of due for Entry by Number and Name, which are 15 March and 15 May of 2013.
The Secretary General of IeSF, Mr. Won Suk Oh emphasized, “Filing e-Sports into the customized sports world is very important mission, which will allow to expand general scene of e-sports by distributing its content to the public all over the world.
Also, it will positively influence on the current scene of sports to be transformed to a certain direction for our future generation.
This is just first step as collaborating with international sports governing body in Asia region, but we will sooner or later contact other continents’ Olympic Committees such as European Olympic Committee(EOC) or Pan America Sports Organization (PASO) and start negotiating for inserting e-sport as an official sports discipline for their mega sports event, which is in line with our most desirable mission, Sport Accord Affiliation.” We will keep updating the news for the progress of 4th AIMAG’s e-sports event preparation.
