Born at the heart of the gaming and Internet culture in the late 1990s, e-sport is now a fully fledged discipline in its own right at the crossroads of new technologies, entertainment and sport. With the ESWC, e-sport has established its pedigree and written the beginning of its story.

Nothing is down to chance in electronic sports. It is all a matter of reflexes, psychology, training, and the ability to merge into a digital world and feel its force. The basics of strategic knowledge are worthy of chess. Heart rates during the matches may verge on 200 beats a minute. The essence of electronic sports is not hardware or software, but human being.