Virtue(al) games—real drugs

Holden, John T.; Kaburakis, Anastasios; Tweedie, Joanna Wall

doi:10.1080/17511321.2018.1459814

Cited by 14 publications

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confidence: 99%

“…Without a central point unifying the industry to define where the line of ethics is situated, subjects such as doping fall into a grey area which is damaging to the stakeholders in general. The existing policies of ESIC and the adoption of WADA standards fails to meet the requirements of esports athletes (Holden et al, 2019). A central authority would enable not only measures to prevent doping on a wide scale as well as provide cohesive instructions on proceeding with a violator of the said policies.…”

Section: Lack Of a Central Authoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doping as a barrier in universal acceptance of esports

Gupta

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Gupta

2021

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PurposeEsports has been emerging as a multi-billion dollar industry by attracting players, viewers, advertisers and investors across the globe. Even though there are plenty of professional titles present, only a few have been considered mainstream due to lack of formal governance mechanisms, presence of corruption and cheating mechanisms. “Doping” is one such practice where the players try to gain unfair advantage over their competitors, causing major hindrance in esports development. This qualitative study would draw insights from their perceptions about different doping mechanisms and possible recommendations to curb them.Design/methodology/approachThis study has analyzed the semi-structured interviews of selected esports professionals to draw insights from their perceptions about different doping mechanisms and possible recommendations to curb them. This qualitative study would explore the content of their interviews for extracting relevant themes and subthemes.FindingsThe findings of this study have made significant contributions to deeply lacking literature about the esports industry and barriers it faces in order to be considered as a legitimate sport. The study has extracted contemporary and new emerging themes about the rising trends in the industry and their impact on society and the way we see sports as a whole. Moreover, this study dwells upon the rampant drug abuse persisting in this industry and how it offers itself as a barrier to the legitimization of esports as a viable global industry.Originality/valueThis study provides an on-ground reality reports on esports and various malpractices rampant in the industry by conducting interviews with various industry professionals and analyzing them through a thematic analysis method using an inductive approach.

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Section: Lack Of a Central Authoritymentioning

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Doping as a barrier in universal acceptance of esports

Gupta

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Gupta

2021

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“…Doping scandals and rumors hinder esports financial success because they scare sponsors away. For instance, Lance Armstrong revealed that his doping confession cost him $100 million 2 Esports anti-doping is in its infancy (Holden et al, 2019). Anti-doping efforts are disperse and lack a global governing body that harmonizes them.…”

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The “big red bull” in the esports room: Anti-doping, esports, and energy drinks

Frías

2022

Performance Enhancement & Health

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“…Existe, incluso, alguna iniciativa donde se estudia el uso el uso de sustancias que afectan al rendimiento de los jugadores, como el adderall, lo que podría considerarse como el sustrato del dopaje en los esports, en clara correlación con el deporte tradicional (Holden, Kaburakis, & Wall Tweedie, 2019).…”

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Esports y ciencia: sintonizando con el fenómeno de los deportes electrónicos (Esports and science: Tuning into the phenomenon of electronic sports)

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The cultural changes suffered in the last decades have originated different emergent phenomena that have burst into our time. Electronic sports (esports) have been consolidated as one of them, giving rise to their study from multiple areas, especially from the sciences of physical-sports activity (leisure, performance, professionalization ...). Therefore, this work illustrates how the scientific-academic world is currently addressing this phenomenon, using the PRISMA-P protocol for systematic reviews and the databases Scopus and Web of Science as main sources of information. The results provide a total of 106 works on the subject, which have been categorized into four thematic axes: physical activity and health; concept of sport; esports as a social phenomenon; and marketing and legal framework. As a main result, there is a scarce corpus of scientific-academic knowledge about esports, in comparison with its social impact. The dispersion in the topics from which it is approached is due, fundamentally, to the almost non-existent legal regulatory framework, besides the abstract of the phenomenon to explain it from the traditional concept of sport.

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Virtue(al) games—real drugs

Cited by 14 publications

References 37 publications

Doping as a barrier in universal acceptance of esports

Doping as a barrier in universal acceptance of esports

The “big red bull” in the esports room: Anti-doping, esports, and energy drinks

Esports y ciencia: sintonizando con el fenómeno de los deportes electrónicos (Esports and science: Tuning into the phenomenon of electronic sports)

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