One was the so-called Fernw채rme eSports Soccer Cup, now in its third year. The Soccer Cup is an eSport event tailored to Vienna’s energy provider “Fernw채rme Wien”. Like the name says it focuses mainly on a soccer game, FIFA 10, but participants could also try their hand at the racing game Forza Motorsport 3 and Virtua Tennis 2009. The tournament takes place over two days and is especially amateur friendly because players can choose to partake right there on-site, play the qualifications and try to make it to the final games. In 2010 more than 300 people came to take part in and to see the Soccer Cup.
The second event the esvoe was involved in in March was a cultural-scientific-esports crossover event taking place in St. P철lten in Lower Austria – CyberLab 2010. Purpose of the event was to examine the human element in the human-machine-computer triangle. The academic part of the event was a symposium, the cultural part an art lab, the eSports part in which esvoe was highly involved was a huge LAN-party. About 200 gamers and gaming-interested people took part in the LAN-party.
