Governing body for eSports to be announced today

A new governing body, titled the World eSports Association (WESA), is to be announced today.

Governing body for eSports to be announced today

Vice president of programming at the Electronic Sports League, James Lampkin, said that the body wants to make the industry more cohesive. “The fundamental success of this sport going forward will be determined by having a cohesive set of policies that are reliable, (and) predictable for players, for fans, for teams and publishers of video games,” he explained.

"We are in the Wild West of the eSports industry. It's wild, it's young, it's booming." Of course, just like the Wild West, it has issues. There have been incidents of match fixing, allegations of drug usage, and there is still plenty of instability.

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