- New Recruits at IeSF
As starting the new businesses of 2012, IeSF had welcomed one youngand ambitious man, Jay Shin, taking charge of tournament organizing affairs within IeSF, and one young and smart woman, Su Jin Choi, in charge of accounting and financing, as new staffs. It has been almost one year since they started working at IeSF, and both of them are fulfilling their mission more than perfectly. - e-Sports encountered with “Olympic Council of Asia”
International e-Sports Federation has been endeavoring to uplift the public confidence of esports globally as general sports, and to expand its realm. As the reward for its endeavor, on June 15, IeSF grabbed an opportunity to conduct presentation at the General Assembly of “Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)” in Haiyang, China, and had meetings with officials of OCA. As the result of these meetings, the endeavors of IeSF derived the achievement that esports became the official discipline of 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) hosted by OCA, and IeSF became the official counterpart for e-sports discipline within this event as the international governing body of e-sports. The 4th AIMAG will be held from June 29 to July 6 in Incheon, Korea. - IeSF 2012 Asia Conference
IeSF 2012 Asia Conference, which is one of academic events hosted by IeSF, was held from July 6 to July 8 in Cebu, Philippines with the support of Cebu City Council and Sports Commission. 10 Asian Members of IeSF gathered, and discussed with the topics of major businesses of IeSF, issues of e-sports in Asian regions, and 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games. - IeSF meets International Sports Governing Body, “IMSA”
As one of IeSF’s major projects, we have been preparing affiliation to Sport Accord, and we are closely cooperating with international sports governing bodies in order to expand the realm of e-sports. On August 14, during the World Mind Sports Games held in Lille, France, IeSF had a meeting with “International Mind Sports Association (IMSA)” which was established by Sport Accord. There, we had a discussion on the issue of expanding the realm of e-sports within customized sports world, and the cooperation measure between IeSF and IMSA. - IeSF 2012 Euro Conference
IeSF 2012 Euro Conference, which is the module to handle the issues of e-sports within European region, was held from 15th to 16th of August, during the period of Gamescom with 19 member nations of IeSF gathered in Cologne, Germany. There, the Secretariat of IeSF and its European members discussed the issues of e-sports in Europe, the major businesses of IeSF, and IeSF European Online League. - IeSF Referee Training in Vietnam
With the request of the e-sports governing body of Vietnam, Vietnamese Recreational Electronic Sports Association (VIRESA), IeSF dispatched the international referee and an instructor to Hanoi, Vietnam, and held the “Vietnam VTC Referee Academy” for 5 days from 19th to 23rd of August. There, 40 Vietnamese trainees took the course with the subjects of general referee training, rules of each title, and actual practice. With the training, VIRESA secured 40 specialized full time referees to handle its national e-sports tournaments. - Valencia e-Sports Congress
With the kind invitation of Dreamhack, IeSF visited Valencia, Spain from 20th to 24th of September. IeSF encountered with many different parties working in global e-sports field global organizers such as Dreamhack, MLG, ESL, ESWC, broadcasters such as Twitch and Own3D, publishers such as Nadeo, Blizzard and Wargaming, and others. They have discussed on the issues how to cooperate with each other effectively and uplift the global e-sports in professional manner. Also, IeSF met with the Mayor of Valencia, and the Mayor showed interest on the businesses of IeSF and promised future support. It was certainly good initiation for all the parties in e-sports world, and IeSF will hand over the torch for this collaboration in the near future. - IeSF 2012 World Championship
IeSF 2012 World Championship hosted by IeSF(International e-Sports Federation) attracted over 300 players, Media and people concerned from governmentapproved 47 member countries and officially finished with a closing ceremony on 5th of Oct, 2012. Korean team became the overall championship of the games by winning the first prize in the competitions,‘Tekken Tag Tournament 2’ and ‘A.V.A (Alliance of Variant Arms)’. Philip Simon from Austria of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty(Blizzard Entertainment) and Hyeonjin Kim from Korea of Tekken Tag Tournament 2(NAMCO BANDAI Partners Korea) took the first place.
Korean team won Chinese Taipei team in the A.V.A as it was a tight finish. Live pictures of all competitions IeSF 2012 World Championship were broadcasted in Korea and all over the world via NICEGAME TV, Twitch TV, Africa TV, GOM TV and Own3d TV etc and the total number of visitors were one hundred thousand people. The reason of such a huge success is that this championship would tie in with local festivals held in Cheon-an taking place the same weeks as well as there would be many visitors based on family units. - IeSF 2012 General Meeting
On last 5th of October, IeSF, as its 5th annual general meeting starting since 2008, held IeSF 2012 General Meeting during the IeSF 2012 World Championship. As the supreme legislative body composed of IeSF Members, all members of IeSF receive the annual report of the previous year’s IeSF businesses, and approve the business plans and affairs for following year. Also, IeSF General Meeting approves 9 new member nations: Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, and Turkey. Also, Bangladesh, the former associate member of IeSF, was approved as the full member of IeSF as the reward of their endeavors for past 2 years. From 2013, it is expected that IeSF take a whole new leap for the future as its expanded global coverage and capacity. - 2012 International e-Sports Symposium
With the IeSF 2012 World Championship successfully closed on last 5th of October, International e-Sports Federation held the 2012 International e-Sports Symposium on 4th of October. At the International e-Sports Symposium, four topics were handled.
1) Global Media Network, presented by Sophie Jeon, Global Team Manager at Kyunghyang Games (Media)
2) International Referee Training Program, presented by Hyung Suk Seo, Manager at Korea e-Sports Association (KeSPA)
3) e-Sports and Sports: Need for Amateurism, presented by Colin Webster, President of Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA)
4) 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, presented by Jay Shin, Manager of International e-Sports Federation (IeSF)
To top it off the useful resources and contents disclosed by the symposium, the significance of the symposium is that IeSF, as the governing body for e-sports in non-profit sector, keeps endeavoring to create a stage for all parties in the e-sports market to share their opinions and resources as well as set up a circumstance for academic contemplation for e-sports. The International e-Sports Symposium is 7th one, and has been held since 2006 annually for the purpose of global e-sports opinion share and trend reading.
It is expected there will be more various parties participating in the symposium such as global tournament organizers, publishers, broadcasters, professional teams, press, sponsors, suppliers and etc.
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