Korean e-Sports Association

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Korean e-Sports Association
KeSPA logo
Korean e-Sports Association logo
Founded 2000
Chairman Seo Jin-woo
Members 11 member companies
Association headquarters Jung-gu , Seoul
Official languages) Korean
Homepage http://www.e-sports.or.kr/

The Korean e-Sports Association ( . Kor Hangul : 한국 e 스포츠 협회 , revised : Hanguk e-seupocheu hyeophoe ) or KeSPA is a South Korean umbrella organization for e-sports to establish in South Korea and manage. The KeSPA's official esports games currently include 22 titles. Including StarCraft , StarCraft II , League of Legends , FIFA and Counter-Strike . Another 21 titles have lost their status as an official competitive game since it was founded. The KeSPA is an official member organization of the Korean Olympic Committee .

Emergence

Two years after the first esports leagues were founded in Europe and the USA , efforts were made in Korea to provide a framework for national esports. From the second half of 1999, meetings with founding sponsors were organized and conferences were held, and the first annual general meeting was called at the end of the year. On January 11, 2000, an informal press conference announced the goal of founding a company dedicated to Korean esports. A few weeks later, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism approved the establishment of the Korean e-sports association under the name 21C Programer Association . From then on, nothing stood in the way of improving and promoting electronic sports in the Republic of Korea. At the end of February 2000, Kim Yeong-Man (Han-Bit Soft) took over the management and the following summer the first championships were held under the auspices of the Korean E-Sports Association. At the same time as this tournament, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism approved the developed progamer licensing system. In the following years the 21C Progamer Association hosted various tournaments, including the KPGA Tour (first November 2001) and the Cybergames 2002 (June 2002 in Seoul).

In April 2005, the President of SK Telecom , Kim Shin-Bae, took over the chairmanship of the KeSPA. Under his leadership, the Yongsan E-Sport Stadium, the first permanent stadium for electronic sports, was opened in the Yongsan district (Seoul) on the eighth floor of the I'Park Mall that same year . Shortly afterwards the first united Proleague took place. In the same year, the KeSPA and the Korea Game Industry Agency (KOGIA) signed a letter of intent to revitalize esports. Furthermore, the Korea e-Sports Association has been responsible for the presentation of e-sports awards and as the organizer of various international symposia and conferences on all aspects of electronic sports.

aims

The official goal of KeSPA is to make esports an official sporting event and to strengthen the commercial positioning of esports in all sectors. The organization manages the broadcast of esports, the development of new events and the conditions under which professional players work, as well as promoting the playing of computer games among the entire population.

In 2008, SK Telecom took over the leading position on the board in which Seo Jin-woo became the organization's president. The KeSPA regulates the broadcast of e-sports channels such as OnGameNet , MBCGame , GOMtv and Pandora TV , as well as 23 e-sports journalists and over twelve e-sports teams. A ranking system was also introduced.

On May 11, 2012, after changing notices from KeSPA regarding the transition from StarCraft: Brood War to StarCraft II , a partnership with the US Major League Gaming was announced to allow KeSPA players to participate in MLG events.

Incidents

Match-fixing controversy

In April 2010, 11 StarCraft players were charged with match-fixing during the 2009 Proleague . Along with the players, the owners of over twelve illegal betting sites, former players and members of the staff were summoned to court. It was alleged that the players were bribed for disclosing internal information or deliberately losing games, which made a big profit for the operators of the illegal betting sites. As a result, there was a great outcry in Korea about these developments. The KeSPA Sanctions Subcommittee banned the players from e-sports in Korea, as well as those who, according to the KeSPA criminal courts, were involved and their teams.

Intellectual Property Disputes

There was a slump in esports media broadcasts in 2008, in part caused by fears that Blizzard would collect royalties from KeSPA based on its intellectual property. In 2010, Blizzard Entertainment announced that negotiations were going bad and that they would only allow GomTV to broadcast Blizzard games. KeSPA responded by challenging Blizzard's intellectual property rights. Shortly afterwards, MBC Game, a gaming television broadcaster, announced they were negotiating with GOMtv, leading Newhua News to speculate that this could weaken the power of KeSPA.

In May 2011, the dispute was finally settled, so that OGN and MBC were officially allowed to broadcast Brood War games.

literature

  • Gudrun Werdenich: "PC bang, e-sports and the magic of StarCraft - Korea's unique role in the world of electronic sports" Werner Hülsbusch Verlag, Boizenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940317-74-2 , pp. 65–75.

credentials

  1. ↑ KeSPA: Official e-sports titles ( Memento from May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.e-sports.or.kr/about/Eng/history.kea?m_Code=about_30&hYear=2004 KeSPA History
  3. ↑ KeSPA Purpose of Bisuness
  4. ↑ KeSPA History 2008
  5. ↑ Simon Tsang: In a Blizzard of Warfare . In: Sydney Morning Herald , June 4, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2010. 
  6. ↑ KeSPA Rankings . KeSPA. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  7. ↑ Media Day: SK Planet Proleague Season 2
  8. ↑ MLG and KeSPA Announce Multi-Year Partnership
  9. ↑ Hyun-cheol Kim: StarCraft Rigging Scandal Hits e-Sports Industry . In: Korea Times , April 15, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010. 
  10. ↑ Hyuk Kim: KeSPA, 프로 게이머 승부 조작 연류 11 명 자격 박탈 등 중징계 . In: Today Korea , April 7, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 12, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.todaykorea.co.kr 
  11. ↑ Jin-seo Cho: 'StarCraft' Losing in Gaming League . In: Korea Times , May 19, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2010. 
  12. ↑ 暴雪 CEO 声明 与 GomTV 合作 缘由 KeSPA 未 表态 . In: Yesky Gaming . Retrieved June 12, 2010. 
  13. ^ MBC Television first to change sides and play with Blizzard . In: Newhua , June 4, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010. 
  14. ↑ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=223866

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