Dutch Esports Federation

The Dutch eSports Federation, “Nederlandse Esports Bond”, abbreviated to ESB The federation has been established in 2005 and is one of the founding fathers of the IeSF. The federation has established a good relation with the IOC*NSF. Being new amongst traditional sports federations, ESB has broken with the Trent of top-down organized NF’s. ESB is community-based and organized bottom-up. ESB is supported by 200 communities, either grass-roots based or fan-based. eSports has broken trough to mainstream after the first ever organized competition, played live in cinema’s for 12 weeks and broadcasted on traditional TV, Fox Sports.