IeSF has just finished the first draft of “Initial International e-Sports Referee Training Program”. This Program, as a part of global standardization project, has been designed to cultivate specialized referee resource for various global e-sports tournaments including IeSF World Championship for the future. This training curriculum has been designed with collaboration between IeSF Secretariat and Korea e-Sports Association (KeSPA). It will commence in first half of 2013 as confirming it with our members at Euro / Asia Conferences and IeSF 2012 General Meeting.
The initial referee training program will be operated with the trainees selected from each member nation, who are experienced with related occupation or used to be e-sports player, and have English language skill. These selected trainees will take classes for basic curriculums such as ‘introduction to e-sports’, ‘Refinement of referee’, ‘Analysis of sample tournaments’, ‘Role Playing, and etc. Also, they will have filed activities through observing ‘Professional League’ hosted by KeSPA. Those who completed course as passing the written test and Role Playing test will obtain the license for initial IeSF international referee through the certification system.
These international referees being cultivated initially, beyond the realm of national e-sports referee representing own country, will take a role as instructor who can cultivate official referees in each country. Initially, these qualified referees will operate IeSF 2013 World Championship and its national qualifiers, and will take the central role for the Global Online League in the future. Also, through the curriculum of IeSF international referee training program, they will assume full charge of referee training program at the national level as well as supervising national referees with each National Association. IeSF is planning to maximize utilization of these initial international referees as partnering with other e-sports parties in the future.
