October 7, 2010

IeSF, leading a formation of a basis of International standardization

[Reported by Lee, So-Ra]

IeSF is widely known for the fact that it will take the head in making standardization of e-sports and the contents has gotten interests. IeSF has a plan for building IeSF grand final as a integrating festival for e-sports globalization, not as a mere competition filled with leagues. That is, it will maintain the leagues as planned and simultaneously hold symposiums with various themes so that it could form a basis of international standardization with e-sports parties. IeSF has decided that e-sports needs to have standardization process like soccer and other sports and continued a research on that.
This standardization process throughout 5 fields is known that each country’s e-sports parties have doing research together under the leadership of Korea. The formation of the standard will be anticipated as playing an important role for e-sports to stand on tiptoe to become a regular sports event.

◆ Necessity of standardization
Korea, the successful case of installation of e-sports culture and industrialization, have already finished the standardization of rules and the juries. There is an organization which recognizes officially the competitions and there are the systems which are prepared for games selection, jury dispatch throughout Korea e-sports association.

But most of countries have no systems as above. Therefore each country’s domestic competitions including international competitions are applied by all different rules. Especially, when they hold the international ones, the players usually have to experience confusion because of all different rules by countries.

So, the standardization of e-sports is a basic process to strengthen e-sport’s international status and make it as a regular sports event. IeSF strongly felt this necessity and decided to go first to do the research of e-sports standardization with each counties’ parties.
IeSF completed the researches of 3 fields and it is doing now the business of 2010. It also stated that the research of rest 2 fields have shown a progress. Now, It expects that the symposium in IeSF grand final will be playing a role of an accelerator.

◆ The standardization works of 5 fields
IeSF have made all efforts to complete standardization of 5 fields in the jury committee, the player committee, the competition committee, the recognition committee, the games committee. After selecting the 5 fields to be the basic courses of competitions, now IeSF is concentrating on the research to make to the optimized model with total analysis of each country’s situations.
Firstly, the jury committee is being operated by Korea e-sports committee as an example because Korea has the only country which has games juries. IeSF announced that the 2011 jury committee would be officially operated after releasing the operating results through a conference or regular meeting.
The player committee is being operated temporally by selected European member countries which have shown fierce player activities and competition participations. This committee is, also completed on the research and the official committee will be activated in 2011.
The competition committee is now doing business in 2010. It has done researches in cooperation with the advisory committee and academic-industrial organizations. Also it is known that the committee has all arranged the standard of competition rating, the standard of stadium rating, operating rules, e-sports equipments rules. Also the committee plans to publish and dispatch the ‘rule book’ to the member countries.
The recognition committee also started business in 2010. Like the competition committee, it cooperated with the advisory committee and academic-industrial organizations and arranged the rules of recognition of juries, players, competitions and games throughout relevant international documents such as FIFA, IOC.
The games committee started the business from this year after finalization of research with international academic-industrial organizations. It has done the research of e-sports genre such as FPS, RTS, RPG, SPORTS and arranged the standard of selecting games divided by platforms. Also it arranged the standard of the officially recognized games by the association..
The efforts as above, is estimated as quick step for preoccupying and leading international e-sports standardization and. It shows that these efforts can save the e-sports birthplace’s status and give a big contribution to raise up the value of e-sports at the same time.

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