To be or not to be (e)sports? That is not the question! Why and how sport and exercise psychology could research esports

Leis, Oliver; Raue, Charlotte; Dreiskämper, Dennis; Lautenbach, Franziska

doi:10.1007/s12662-021-00715-9

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“…For example, authors have assessed individuals on metrics from standalone accuracy (Neri et al, 2021), to game score (Liu et al, 2021), to perceived performance (Hopp & Fisher, 2017). Although noted by prior authors (Leis et al, 2021;Pedraza-Ramirez et al, 2020;Pluss et al, 2022), the most empirically justified means to indicate performance is limited.…”

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Indexing Esport Performance

Sharpe

Besombes

Welsh

et al. 2023

Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports

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The assessment of an athlete’s performance can play a key role in determining their current state, their readiness to compete, the impact of an experimental manipulation, and/or the influence of an intervention. At present, there is limited empirical evidence stating the indicators that encapsulate individual performance within any esport. To identify the variables that are historically associated with indicating Counter-Strike: Global Offensive performance, a literature review was conducted. Identified variables were accumulated and presented to three technical expert panels composed of world-class esport athletes, researchers, and practitioners. We utilized a modified Delphi method to provide direction concerning the examination of performance in esports. The expert panelists presented numerous opinions on what encapsulates performance, considerations for best practices, and concerns associated with the semantics of performance. This study presents the opinions of various domain-specific experts and encourages the use of more explicit terminology when discussing performance measurement. It was the intention of the project to generate an open discussion rather than draw a unified conclusion on best practices.

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Indexing Esport Performance

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Welsh

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Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports

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“…The emergence of the idea of esports being included in sports is possible due to the daily habit of people freely using the language of sports for competitive activities and sportsmanship for individuals/groups who compete/compete without considering the philosophical aspects of competition occur. There is no problem with the community considering it as a sport, but if it is viewed in philosophy, especially in the clear ontology aspect, Esports does not qualify as a science that is included in the sports science (Willimczik, 2019); (Leis et al, 2021). This means that esports activities are not sports in the true sense of the body of independent science, which consists of body activities in formation and education.…”

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Study of Esports in Sports Epistemology Perspective

Santoso¹,

Anwar²,

Nasrulloh³

et al. 2022

IJMRA

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Esports is a strong phenomenon, especially in the world of children, youth, and youth. This study aims to contribute new ideas, ideas, and perspectives in the debate on Esports discourse in the world of sports, as well as in order to raise the awareness of sports academics to study more deeply about esports from various points of view of sports science. The research method used is library research. Data collection techniques by conducting a review study of books, literature, notes, journals and reports. Judging from the three main elements in sports, physical, competition and institutional, Esports cannot be identified as a sport mainly because of the physical activity missing in Esports. Although the movements that look amazing cannot be ascribed to Esports players, they require some motor skills in playing the game including hand-eye coordination and speed of action with strategic and tactical understanding but that is still considered lacking and still far from being a sport. Besides that, there is an element of addiction and symptoms of lack of movement, if you play video games too often, it is also a consideration in determining Esports as a sport. It is necessary for the role of various stakeholders and appropriate government institutions to handle esports so that they can develop and contribute as expected

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“…Pendekatan lain yang coba diterapkan untuk membedah perbedaan hingga persamaan dari dua bentuk olahraga ini. Leis (2021) mencoba membandingkan delapan elemen olahraga yang meliputi kognisi, motivasi, emosi, kepribadian, proses sosial, performa, kesehatan dan dukungan lingkungan dengan penerapannya di dalam esports. Hasil yang terungkap menjelaskan bahwa esports memiliki kadar dan nilai yang hampir sama dengan atlet yang memainkan olahraga tradisional.…”

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Commodifiaction Of Workers On Esports Athletes In Digital Sports Industry

Anshari

Evangelina²,

Abbabil³

2022

J. Komun.

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The Esports industry has begun to produce various media platforms that display interesting game content played by athletes, to attract viewers to join the platform through live streaming. The purpose of this study is to analyze the meaning of commodification of workers from the athlete's perspective, who are already involved as commodities. The expected benefits are recommendations to minimize the forms of commodification such as exploitation of workers. This study uses a review of media political economy theory that is associated with the movement of the esports industry ecosystem. The approach used in this research is qualitative by using a descriptive study. The data collection technique uses an in-depth interview method with esports athletes, virtual observation, and collecting documents. The findings are that esports athletes consciously feel that their identity as an athlete becomes a commodity that has a selling value to agencies and other actors in the digital sports industry. However, the good income and not being seriously regulated, allows them to reach as much profit as possible, although there are still revenue cuts from the agency. This profit also changes their early goals and mindset as esports athletes, from being a games players and start thinking about profit even though they realize are being exploited. The finding is the athlete's ability to conjure up their role as a commodity in the industry, by utilizing the athlete's identity as a valueable commodity for their own benefit.

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To be or not to be (e)sports? That is not the question! Why and how sport and exercise psychology could research esports

Cited by 24 publications

References 40 publications

Indexing Esport Performance

Indexing Esport Performance

Study of Esports in Sports Epistemology Perspective

Commodifiaction Of Workers On Esports Athletes In Digital Sports Industry

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