From today you will no longer have to get dirty looks when you say the phrase "Yes mom, one more game and then study": in a year in which university sports competitions are inevitably suspended theUniversità degli Studi di Torino, the Politecnico di Torino and the CUS Turin have decided to give students the opportunity to compete on the digital fields of the two most famous videogame titles dedicated to football simulation.
In fact, on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2020, the first edition of theeSports University Cup FIFA21 - PES2021, free virtual competition that will give away a prize pool in Amazon vouchers.
Esports are growing exponentially all over the world and in our country 1.5 million people attend a virtual sports event as an audience more than once a week on various streaming platforms, first of all Twitch. A statistical survey by PayPal and SuperData carried out in Italy in 2019 had recorded more than 1 million people addicted to online gaming every day and an economic value greater than € 10 mln. The same study had predicted a notable growth in these numbers in 2020, which presumably will be even higher than expected given the months of lockdown we have experienced.
In addition, this week theeSport Legal Forum, on the proposal ofItalian eSports Observatory, with the aim of formalizing a shared manifesto of these new disciplines to regulate their legal, promotional and advertising aspects. In fact, for some years the biggest European teams have started hiring pro gamer as representatives of the relative sports clubs in international online tournaments and the connected turnover is decidedly rich since it also involves agents and sponsorships exactly as happens with those who physically go down on the pitch. In light of all this interest in this phenomenon, a declared goal of the academic sports world is to be able to insert eSports within the disciplines practiced in upcoming Universiade.
So below with the joysticks and keyboards so when you say in the group chat on Whatsapp "You can't understand, tonight at the CUS tournament I scored a crazy goal ...to Cristiano Ronaldo! " this time, at least, they can believe it!
Registration closes on November 21st at 5pm for the FIFA21 tournament and on November 22nd at 5pm for the PES2021 tournament.
For complete info and rules:
FIFA 21 tournament
PES 2021 Tournament
