In this Issue:
People of the month
Member Nations‟ News
edited by Alex Lim
We are introducing Miodrag Stakić, the president of “eSports Serbia”. “eSports Serbia” is the sole and representative e-sports federation of Serbia, which newly joined as one of the respectful IeSF members. We would like to share his vision and passion toward esports with you all.
Game Trend reading from G-Star Trend in the World Today e-Sports Column People of the Month Notice
1. How long have you been working in e-sports field and what motivation brought you into this field? I am considering myself lucky to be able to participate in e-Sports development in Serbia from its very beginning. To be more precise, I found myself in this fine story since 2003. My main motives were, and still are oriented around something new in that time, which can and will be directed and developed in completely equal discipline within conventional sports all around the world. 2. Please tell us briefly about beginning, history, and current status of esports market in Serbia. Like in every field in life, all startups are usually hard. It was like that with esports in Serbia. We, nationally had more obstacles compared to other countries, mainly oriented within non-educated population. Because of that, pace was generally a bit slower in those times than it should be. Infrastructure was underdeveloped, internet access analogue and very slow, gaming culture rudimental. But, on year-to-year basis, things changed. Thanks to general engagement of e-sports pioneers things started to roll out in adequate direction. I find myself very proud of that, and also the fact that we were there from day one, doing things that mattered. Today, we are in league with much bigger countries, being able to participate and contribute both on national, regional and international levels. 3. Please give us introduction of “eSports Serbia” and major projects of it.
eSports Serbia is only national organization rounding up all e-Sports players in Serbia. Developing regionally, we cooperate with players from neighbor countries, giving possibilities for further close development. From starters, we were able to produce and organize World Cyber Games events on annual basis covering Serbia, and later on Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Montenegro and IeSF from 2011.Simultaneously, eSports Serbia started project of e-Sports acknowledgement as regular sports discipline.
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