by RESF Secretary General, Constantine Surkont
On the 11th of May in Moscow there took place the third tournament for amateur gamers “e-Sport Universe”. This time it happened in Moscow State Technical University. ASUS gaming notebooks were used for the competitions.
The event program included World of Tanks, Point Blank, Quake Live competitions. The strongest student teams of different universities presented their skills at special Counter Strike show matches. Some students even competed in LineAge2 group battles.
The prizes for e-sport winners and those who won other contest and lotteries at the event were backpacks, mouse HDDs and other computer stuff provided by ASUS
Among other esport disciplines there is one which has nothing to do with videogaming. It is Internet heuristics (Internet search). On 20 May Internetheuristic competition took place in Nizhnekamsk (Russia, Tatarstan). The competition was held in two stages: preliminaries in high schools and educational institutions of the city and the final stage where 18 students competed to solve 8 search tasks. The winner was Abrosimov Artemy, student of Nizhnekamsk Agro-Industrial College.
Somehow it’s been happening recent few years that educational nstitutions have become base for e-sport further development in Russia. Many universities are interested in holding competitions and other e-sport events, some of them are ready to train its’ own teams. That gives a good ground for the All-Russia esport student league, which RESF has been planning. Yekaterinburg filiation, as many other RESF filiations do, closely co-works with higher schools institutions.
One of the most esport active HEI in the city is Ural State Economic University. On May 20 the university held the third Eurasia Economic Forum for young people. And for the second time the forum included the Eurasia Cybersport event. Students and other young people competed in StarCraft2 1×1, Counter Strike 1.6 5×5, FIFA 12, Mortal Combat 1×1 and even Dance Central 2. Also there was a non-videogaming discipline ? PC assembling.
June was not that full of events. The only significant one is forthcoming on 29-30 June in Samara. Two days competitions in Counter Strike 1.6, FIFA 12, StarCraft 2 and PC assembling will meet players of Volga region in the main exhibition center of Samara. And I’ll try to make a report about it next month.
Meanwhile we’ve started our new web-project RESP.su (Russian e-Sport portal), which is still raw and has been working in testing mode ince February.But some of what we’re intending to have at RESP.su already works. At least the portal allows to hold online competitions. Briefly, people register for tournaments, play their matches, report the results to the system, and the systems draws brackets and show players their next rivals, sets time for the matches. It can use single and double elimination brackets, round robin and combined brackets as well.
So far we’ve carried out about 40 online tournaments using online competition system of RESP.su. The main games are CS16, SC2, WoT, Point Blank, Quake Live, BloodLine Champions, League of Legends, Call of Duty. Those were online prelims for some big events, just tourneys and even online battles between teams of cities. On the whole the number of participants (registered accounts) reached 6 thousand which is not bad for four months.
