Bill Elafros

How to deal with major publishers in esports as a tournament organizer

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We’ve discussed planning an esports tournament, dealing with pro teams in esports, preventing cheating in esports and more. However, we did not discuss one of the MOST important steps in getting a tournament going is your interactions with the major publishers. Why is this important? Well, some publishers can shut your tournament down faster than you can blink so it’s best to understand the rules and regulations they put in place. The publishers hold MAJOR power at the moment so it’s important to understand how each publisher reacts and what they look for. Some general tips and suggestions would be:

How to deal with professional teams in esports

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Whether you’re just starting out and planning an esports tournament, budgeting an eports tournament or you’ve hosted a few tournaments already; player and team management is an important aspect that’s overlooked sometimes. How to communicate with professional teams So you’ve tentatively created a tournament and you’re wondering how to communicate to a team. The good news is, if you’ve done this before you’ll be able to contact a manager or someone in the organization to point you in the right direction. Don’t reach out to pro players themselves as they’re pretty busy and more than likely going to ignore you.

What is esports and why do people watch it?

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So, what is esports and why do people like myself watch it? Great question. There’s a great debate on what defines esports and I believe that it is an evolving set of criteria. I’ll go through a rough definition and then Definition Esports can be described as a competition in a video game between two or more individuals in a competitive manner. Generally between professional players. For example, one of the oldest esports (Quake) was an arena FPS between two players competing at the highest level to see who would be the best at Quake. PS best Quake song and