At the end of May, the Austria Center Vienna will be transformed into a large e-sports and gaming arena. The exhibitors and partners offer an action-packed supporting program and the opportunity to play themselves. On site, visitors can expect community tournaments to play in, music acts, vendors, Austrian clubs and various hands-on stations.
Further information and tickets are available at the following link: Austrian eSports Festival
At the beginning of August, Europe’s biggest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports event will start again at the Lanxess Arena. Fans and players can once again look forward to the IEM Cologne, also known as “The Cathedral of Counter-Strike”. A total of 24 teams will participate and $1,000,000 in prize money will be made available.
Further information and tickets are available at the following link: IEM Cologne
Through our previous five e-sports studies, we have already been able to gain comprehensive insights into gamers and e-sports enthusiasts in Germany. However, a lot is still unclear and there is still a lot of need for research in e-sports to make it more socially acceptable and professional. Because of this, we have developed a new e-sports survey. […]
Mental health and performance. Two different terms, closely linked. In traditional sports, especially when it comes to success and failure, terms like “performance pressure”, “chocking”, or resilience are not new. But what exactly does it look like in e-sports? […]
Since 2018, we have been conducting annual esports studies to investigate various topics related to the health of esports players. In the current study, we surveyed 1073 gamers on the topic of mental health and resilience. […]
A sufficiently long and deep sleep is necessary for us to be healthy and productive in the long term. But according to our eSports Study 2019, video gamers do not have the best sleep. To what extent the video games themselves possibly influence sleep, we have compiled in a review. […]
At the end of August it’s that time again, the world’s largest trade fair for video games will take place in Cologne. This is the first year since 2019 that visitors are again allowed on site. However, the digital aspect remains and is once again an importarnt part of the presentations at Gamescom this year.
All schedules, streams and info about the event can be found at Gamescom 2022.
The Asian Games 2022 were originally scheduled to take place from September 10th to 25th, 2022. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, they have now been postponed to 23rd September to 8th October, 2023. For the first time, esports are to be included as a sport. In disciplines such as PUBG Mobile, FIFA, League of Legends and Dota 2, the esports player will compete for medals.
More information about the event can be found here!
Dreamhack Winter will be held in Jönköping, Sweden from November 24th to 27th, 2022. In addition to a huge LAN with more than 3000 seats, esports tournaments will also take place. For example, the professional esports teams in CS:GO will fight for a prize money of 250,000 US-dollars.
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