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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Through the first four eSport studies, we were able to gain important insights into the training/sleeping, nutrition, health behaviour and pain of esports players. You can see the results in the research findings. However, a lot is still unexplored and there is still a great need for research in esports to structure eSports even more professional and social accessable. Therefore we have developed a new eSport survey with the topics of posture and physical complaints.
From June 9th to 12th, 2022, the event P1NG Germany will take place for the first time in Hannover. For three days, over 20,000 participants will travel to Hannover and experience the mass phenomenon of eSports live in the authentically designed eSports Arena with top games and finals.
Information about the new event can be found here.
In the heart of summer, from July 5th to 17th, the best 24 teams will once again compete against each other in Counter-Strike at the LANXESS Arena in Cologne. In addition to the prize money, they will be competing for one of the most prestigious titles of all. In addition, the teams will collect important points for the ESL Pro Tour at the IEM Cologne 2022.
To stay up to date, check out the IEM Cologne 2022 page.
On March 31st, 2022, Germany will once again be looking for the best games made in Germany! Up to €800,000 in prize money will be distributed in a total of 16 categories. So far, suggestions can still be submitted, such as the studio or the player of the year.
On the website of the German Computer Game Award you can get the latest information.
Because of the ongoing pandemic, this year’s press conference was held as a digital presentation with only a handful of people on site. Professor Dr. Ingo Froböse (Head of the Institute of Movement Therapy and Movement-oriented Prevention and Rehabilitation at the German Sport University Cologne) presented the findings in collaboration with Rolf Buchwitz (Deputy Chairman of the Board of the AOK Rhineland/Hamburg) on March 23rd.
At the 23rd March 2022 we will host a digital press conferenct about our eSports Study 2022. Our annual eSports study is primarily about new findings on health. In the last few years, we gained a comprehensive picture of health behavior, sleep, media use and nutritional behaviors in eSports. This year’s topics are ergonomics and pain. Despite the circumstances, we are happy to present our new findings to you digitally. You can find the new results after the press conference under Research Findings (only in German availabe).
Stay tuned on our Instagram channel @eSportwissen.
