“e-Sport meets Sport” in Austria

On the second day of December the Austrian Esport Association, together with the “Federal Office for the Positive Assessment of Computer and Console Games”
held an “eSport meets Sports”-event at the health department of Austria.
On this information day we tried to get the players back to a better lifestyle and tried to help the parents to pay attention with their children’s gaming behavior. Playing too much without taking care of your own health is a growing problem; especially for young people. The goal of “E-Sport meets Sports” is to merge the fun of online-gaming with the necessity of offline activities.
Therefore, we created a system, where online- and offline-activities come together. We arranged a tournament, where people have to play Wii-Golf first and on a real golf putting mat later. Players get points for every activity and are able to win nice prizes. Next year the project “eSport meets Sport” will be pushed to the next level. We will show best practice examples for sports like tennis, swimming, boxing and even more.