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The 'First Day of Popular Science in e-Sports' of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) served as a starting point for the 2016-17 course in the chair of electronic sports.
Experts from the professional field of e-Sports and academia discussed the evolution of this discipline and the challenges it faces in the coming years.
Sergi Mesonero, cofounder of the Professional League of eSports and director of the Department of e-Sports UCAM, stressed in his speech the growing importance of electronic sports in the world but stressed, as a curiosity, that in Spain " it's all done. there are still no official epigraphs on this issue and there is a loophole. "
And all this despite the impressive growth that this area is experiencing each year: "In Spain there are more than one million people each month connect to play or follow the e-Sports There are months that are more than a million and. environment. and in the world we are talking about between one and two hundred million people still regularly e-Sports ".
In its global spread, it highlights its presence especially in the United States, South Korea and Japan.
With these data, it seems unlikely that the university world live back to this reality and therefore, the dean of the Faculty of Sport, Antonio Sánchez Pato, thinks it is essential that the UCAM "impulse days like this because behind the e -Sports there is a ground for research and very important "learning.
He also participated in the day, Mariona Rosell, the Research Group on Philosophy of Law at the University Pompeu Fabra, with his paper 'legal challenges raised by the e-Sports': "Strategically it would be very nice if it could define good practice 'sport gaming' to identify its stability over time and defining features as a sport to allow the Higher Sports Council recognizes it as a sport. "
Source: UCAM
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