Competitive gaming, better known as electronic sports (esports), is rapidly growing in
popularity. We systematically reviewed the available literature regarding the psychological …

Accompanying esports' explosion in popularity, the amount of academic research focused
on organized, competitive gaming has grown rapidly. From 2002 through March 2018 …

Esports as the competitive play of digital games has gained considerable popularity.
However, a comprehensive framework for esport training is still missing. In this paper, a …

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments,
sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play …

In the following article, the author explores the notion of playing computer games as sports
by sketching out the labors and sensations of Counter-Strike teams playing at pro/am e …

This article offers possibly the first peer-reviewed study on the training routines of elite e-
athletes with special focus on the subjects' physical exercise routines. The study is based on …

Online live streaming is a new media genre that combines the broadcast of an activity with
cross-modal video-mediated communication. Lacking an analytical entry point, descriptions …

This article examines the significance of two types of expertise in the popular multiplayer
video game League of Legends. Previous research into multiplayer games has explored a …

In this paper we report an empirical study of how and what types of social support eSports
players can experience from their gameplay. Specifically, we interviewed 26 eSports players …

Esports are rapidly growing within academia. In HCI, earlier work explored how problematic
behaviors emerging from gender biases (eg, toxicity) negatively impact female participation …