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In this Issue: Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final

Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final

By Hei-Eun, Kim

Light IeSF Torch Ambassador Pro-Am Charity ENC took place in Vienna Recognition for S.A e-Sport ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Meeting with Israeli ministry E-Sports 2010 Taiwan

International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) announces that the six games to be featured as demonstration titles in the IeSF 2010 Grand Final in Daegu city on October. Among PC games, ‘Grand Chase’, ‘Quake Wars Online’ and ‘A.V.A’ was selected, while ‘Tera’, ‘Home Run Battle 3D’ and ‘Nom 4’ was chosen in mobile games.

Before International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) announced the demonstration titles, it has been communicated with game publishers under the conditions to join in IeSF 2010 Grand Final. After careful consideration with publishers, finally the demonstration titles were settled.

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PC games * Grand Chase, produced by KOG, is an action game. It is widely used by foreign countries such as Singapore, China, Malaysia, Brazil and United States including Korea. Its webpage is http://chase.netmarble.net/main.asp * Quake Wars Online is a FPS game that Dragon Fly Games produced in cooperated with ‘Quake’, a global leading game brand.

Its webpage is http://www.quakewars.co.kr/Main/HomeMain.aspx * FPS game A.V.A is the demonstration titles of IeSF 2009 Challenge. It is selected this year as well. Its webpage is http://ava.pmang.com/ Mobile games * Nom 4 is a casual arcade game which is 4th game of series. * Tera is RPG/Strategy game. * Home Run Battle 3D is a sport game for Smart phone.

Light The IeSF Torch

By Hei-Eun, Kim Finally the construction of IeSF Torch is completed.

To check its ignition system, IeSF visited again Taebaek city where IeSF Torch locates and verifyed that the system worked well as expected. The celebration of IeSF Torch completion is scheduled to happen with IeSF 2010 Asia Conference.

In the sense of commemorating IeSF 2009 Challenge, the first tournament of IeSF, and going after the spirit: peace, fair play and friendship, IeSF Torch is very significant to all members and people of e-Sports. Also to let all people know the start of IeSF 2010 Grand Final, IeSF plans to lit the IeSF Torch again this year.

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The first Screen golf tournament, ‘Ambassador Pro-Am Charity’

Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final

By Hei-Eun, Kim

Light IeSF Torch Ambassador Pro-Am Charity ENC took place in Vienna Recognition for S.A e-Sport ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Meeting with Israeli ministry E-Sports 2010 Taiwan People of this month

On June 17 2010, the Ambassador Pro-Am Charity hosted by International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) was held at the branch retail store of Swing Golf, Samsung-dong, Seoul. Ambassadors and representatives from 11 member nations and sponsors attended the worthwhile screen golf tournament for helping out the Haiti in need to recover from the disaster. The prize money of screen golf tournament, 20,000,000 won was donated to ‘UNICEF’ in the name of all participants.

This charity is sponsored by the ministry of culture, sports and tourism and organized

by PAGANICA, screen golf Franchise Company in cooperation with other companies such as SK M&C, ASEA Union and The On. Won Suk Oh, the Secretary-General of International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) said that “Screen golf is virtual sport combined with high technology and real sports that everyone easily participates and enjoys. I think it is possible that screen golf could be the e-Sports titles in the future.” He also added “I expect that each participant can experience what virtual reality is and have new angle on e-Sports.”

After the tournament ended, most participants were pleased to join the screen golf tournament where sports and virtual reality blended. The International e-Sport Federation will do its effort continuously to foster promising e-Sports titles in various fields.

ENC took place in Vienna Austria

By Elisabeth Haider In June, the ASUS European Nations Championship which is considered as a major E-Sport event took place in Austria. The tournament was held at the Multiplex, a huge cinema nearby Vienna.

Over 1000 interested viewers found their way to the Finals and followed the players which were competing in the two exciting games FIFA10 and Counterstrike 1.6. The Austrians took a win over the German FIFA 10 national Team and lost to the Netherlands in Counterstrike 1.6.

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In this Issue: Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final

South Africa

Light IeSF Torch

Recognition For South African eSports

By Colin Webster

Ambassador Pro-Am Charity ENC took place in Vienna Recognition for S.A e-Sport ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Meeting with Israeli ministry E-Sports 2010 Taiwan People of this month

Gideon Sam (President of SASCOC), Ryan van den Bergh (Chairman of the MSSA’s eSports Board of Control), and Colin Webster (President of the MSSA).

Protea Colours are the highest accolade that is awarded to South African sporting teams. Only the Protea Colours Board can award Protea Colours. The members of such board consist of people representing both the South African Department of Sport and Recreation (SRSA), and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).

Thus all South African teams that are fully accredited wear the much coveted Protea badge on their ‘battle kit’. No doubt readers who were watching the 2010 FIFA World Cup would have noticed that the South African squad “Bafana Bafana” wore the Protea emblem on the leir shirts.

Likewise the South African rugby squad, swimmers, athletes, etcetera, all wear the Protea emblem when the team meets the criteria of the Protea Colours Board and represents South Africa officially in international competition. With Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) having designed its qualifying rounds to meet the Protea Colours Board’s requirements, the MSSA is well on track to have the team that will attend the 2010 IeSF Grand Final approved by the Protea Colours Board for the award for Protea Colours.

This will be the first time that gamers will be awarded such colours for FIFA Online and WarCraft III. The award of such colours not only indicates the level of accreditation that eSports has managed to achieve in South Africa, but also assists the gamers in obtaining sports bursaries at Universities. There is no doubt, that eSports with the award of Protea Colours, will, in South Africa, continue to grow and flourish.

ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Austria

By Elisabeth Haider Finally the summer season of the ESL Pro Series is coming to an end. The final gaming day of the 9th season takes place on the 26th of July. For all the interested viewers there will be the opportunity to watch the Grand Final at the following channels: alpenScene TV and blank-TV. In cooperation with the ESVÖ, the finals will be streamed over IPTV. Additionally an offline location will be appointed as “eSport hotspot”, where gamers will have the opportunity to watch the live stream together.

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Meeting with Ministry of Culture and Sport in Israel

Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final

By Hei-Eun, Kim

Light IeSF Torch Ambassador Pro-Am Charity ENC took place in Vienna Recognition for S.A e-Sport ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Meeting with Israeli ministry E-Sports 2010 Taiwan People of this month

Won-Suk Oh, Secretary-General of International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) visited Israel for four days to have a meeting with deputy director general of the ministry of culture and sport in Israel. This gathering was arranged by Vgames, a leading e-Sports organization that has managed more than 25 LAN events including WCG and ESWC national qualifiers for 9 years in Israel. In order to be recognized as only sole e-Sport organization that represents its country and to make e-sport regarded as true sport, Vgames invites IeSF to get IeSF’s helpful advice in a meeting with the Israeli ministry of culture and sport.

Won-Suk Oh initiated IeSF’s vision to the Israeli ministry of culture and sport and shared ideas of prospective e-sports during the meeting. The results were generally satisfactory for all parties obtaining a favorable response from the ministry of culture and sport. Besides the meeting with the deputy director of the Israeli ministry, IeSF visited Korean embassy in Israel as well as civic center to promote e-Sport in the region. *Vgames is currently on the progress of getting government approval and IeSF will keep have great relationship with it.

Chinese Taipei

E-SPORTS 2010 Taiwan Open is going to be launched

By Paul The biggest grand occasion of E-Sports event “ESPORTS 2010 Taiwan Open”, is going to be held on July 24 and 25 in National Taipei University Stadium (MingShen Campus). Mr. Huang, the president of Taiwan E-Sports league indicates that TeSL will arrange the open tournament and the most specialized stage to welcome audience and let them experience the charm of live match. The event “E-SPORTS 2010 Taiwan Open” includes three most popular E-Sports tournaments: “The half-season champion of TeSL Pro League”, “The halfseason champion of Tt eSports 2010 Amateur League” and “Interscholastic Cup of Special Force Online.

* Please check full text at IeSF webpage, www.ie-sf.com

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Demonstration titles of IeSF 2010 Grand Final Light IeSF Torch Ambassador Pro-Am Charity ENC took place in Vienna Recognition for S.A e-Sport ESL Pro Series Finals Season IX Meeting with Israeli ministry E-Sports 2010 Taiwan People of this month

By Hei-Eun, Kim South Korea is well known for its e-sports pro-teams particularly for StarCraft pro-league. Like other sports team such as soccer, e-sports pro-teams consist of director, coach and players. To achieve excellent results at the games, the role of director and coach is as important as the ability of each player. IeSF find out the role, qualification and other curiosity via interview with Ji Kang Yoo, the senior coach of pro-team ‘Khan’ of Samsung Electronics.

- Is there qualification for a pro e-Sports team coach?

There is no special qualification for being coach of e-Sport team at this moment. Anyone who has passion and love to the e-Sports can be eligible for the coach.

I’ve heard that International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) has studied on International e-Sports Standardization of Referee, e-Players and so on.

Although currently there is no clear statement regarding qualification of coaches , I expect the future work of IeSF establishing global standards regarding on it.

- How is a pro team composed of? And how is the size of it?

Mostly, a pro-team is made up of director, head coach, coach and e-players. Including the first string and second string, the number of e-players is approximately 20 to 25.

- What is the big difference between coach and director?

Firstly, a director is more like a captain of a ship. On the other hand, coach assists the director to help make his or her decision. In addition, coach serves as a bridge between e-players and director encouraging their communication.

[Contact] Editor Hei-Eun, Kim heieun05@ie-sf.org

General Manager Noha, Park noha@ie-sf.org

Deputy Manager Mibu, Kim mibu@ie-sf.org webpage: www.ie-sf.org

-How is the exchange among pro-teams?

We have ‘Friendly Matches’ and ‘Warm-up Matches’ with other teams, before we have official competitions. The Warm-up Match is for practicing different playing style and checking ‘builds’ and strategies of e-players from different teams. So we, coaches, periodically keep in touch with coaching staff of other teams to arrange ‘Friendly Matches’ and ‘Warm-up Matches’.

- How does coach manage e-players?

Since I joined the e-Sport pro-team as a coach, I have stayed with the e-players for 24 hours taking care of them. As there are differences among individuals, in communal living a little thing sometime could incur troubles influencing on the atmosphere of the team. Therefore, I try not to miss the small things which happen between e-players to ensure such trouble does not have unfavorable impact on the outcome. Moreover, it is very important for coaches to know that even a great player has his or her own rhythm in games. To let them keep their pace, we do find what e-players lack of and try to make up for drawbacks of e-players.

- Is there special coaching style you have?

I usually try to have good relationship with our e-players. Besides that, I put my effort to boost the morale of all team members whether they win or lose. In other teams, when e-players lose their game, their coach let e-players practice more and sometime even scold them. However, we rather let our player to take a day off and encourage them to do better at the next game unlike other teams.

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