[reported by Shim Hyun]
10 countries are waiting including China, India, Italy and Brazil
IeSF is joined by 15 member countries in 2009. Then, What are the countries which are newly waiting for joining in coming IeSF general meeing in late Octover 2010?
Firsly, in Asia continent, four counties showed interests such as China which designated e-sports as regular sports events, India, Maldives and Malaysia. In Europe which has the largest portion of 10 member countries, the 5 counties such as Norway, Italy, Portugal, Israel and Russia showed interests and lastly, Brazil has just ended the inquiry process of IeSF joining, as firstly in America continent.
10 countries are going through the joining process now. If there is no problem in the process, they will be admitted as member countries in coming IeSF general meeing in late October. With the firm decision of 10 candidates as newly members, the whole member counties will increase to 25 countries. Divided by continents, 8 countries in Asia, 15 countries in Europe, each 1 country in Africa and America have a position in IeSF.
▶ Countries that wish to join IeSF
Asia(4) – China, India, Maldives, Malaysia
Europe(5) – Norway, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Russia
America(1) ? Brazil
