2011 has come. Through the vision and dream that I had perish in my heart is still vivid, the difficulties and responsibilities which I have to undertake choked me sometimes. What if I could not meet the expectation of other members? What if I fail to grab the necessary funds to invest in next year? Sometimes I feel lonely and even scared. As a secretary of general, I promised to make IeSF like IOC or FIFA by certain time period in near future. I really want to e-sports like sports ‘in real term’.
At this time, I would like to suggest all of you to have a chance to think about the meaning of e-sports in real term? The term e-sports stand for electronic sports. E-sports should be different from conventional physical sports. We do not necessarily have to follow their costly structure and procedure. If we define the e-sports as game competition that we can play, enjoy and learn in cyber space, it is enough for e-sports to play and enjoy if there is a playground in the cyber space. I think this is the definition of ‘real term’ of e-sports. Then how can we make e-sports playground?
Let’s think about cyber stadium in the cyber space. Without any geographical movement, anybody, anywhere, anytime we could play and compete with each other in the cyber stadium where there are referees to judge and spectators to see. This is the reason the publishers and developers are the most important partners in e-sports with whom we can make cyber stadium possible, even much faster and easier. Though we could make it alone, however, it would cost a lot in time and money.
It is very difficult to find a perfect candidate to meet the all the requirement we need as a roper e-sports game title. There are huge of game title in the area or platform as well as genre. Therefore, it is more rational approach to search for the candidate of game publisher or developers with whom we could make e-sports together and could share the same vision as we have. I agree this is not an easy job. However, since we are the same family under the name of IeSF, who is the international body and supported by each government and we all have expertise in this field, I am optimistic we can make cyber stadium in cyber space with cooperation from proper publishers as sports stadium in physical world.
At this juncture, I would like to suggest to all of our members to start to think about this issue. Since amazing clouding computing environment and related technology are available nowadays, we could dream the cyber stadium much more realistic than before and even we might realize it sooner than we expected. I know this is very difficult task to perform alone. However, if everybody in the IeSF as a team could share the same goal and willingly take this initiatives, this plan could be born successfully and will sustain with self-generating structure. Though it looks ambiguous at this moment since nobody actually tried this field before, I propose you to try this together since we are the best in this field in the world.
