Rene Treur is a professional broadcaster in esports. @TreurRene does a lot of work with football esports such as Fifa and Pro Evolution Soccer including hosting events and live commentary on Belgian TV. We talk to the esports representative who carried the Olympic Torch for Holland in London 2012 about esports and sports and the ever evolving nature of broadcasting. […]

We talk to Kalle (Karl) Ögland about his role as a teacher in Finland and his work developing esports within the education system. You can connect with Karl through his website http://ogland.eu/ or Twitter: https://twitter.com/kallespopkonst. You can read the esports educators handbook in English here: https://ogland.eu/onewebmedia/esport_book_pages_ENG.pdf  

Tobias Scholz, Lisa Völkel & Carolin Uebach published ‘Sportification of Esports – A systematization of sport-teams entering the esports ecosystem’ in the International Journal of Esports. Read it free here! https://www.ijesports.org/article/48/html Scholz, T., Völkel, L., & Uebach, C. (2021). Sportification of Esports-A systematization of sport-teams entering the esports ecosystem. International Journal of Esports, 2(2). Tobias Scholz is an assistant professor […]

A PhD in marketing on Dynamic Capabilities between sports and esports. Florian Lefebvre talks about the intersection of sports and esports and his future work in Vietnam with Stephanie Orme and Brian McCauley. PhD thesis title at Paris-Saclay University : Contribution to the analysis of professional football clubs’ strategies on the international market of esport: a dynamic capabilities approach.  

We talk the combination of esports and music with J. Aaron Hardwick & Joey Gawrysiak through their innovative new project “We Play Together” at Shenandoah University.

Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez talks about his work with Rogue Esports  where he practices what he preaches, combining his role as PhD student in sports performance with his actual work in sports psychology with the Rogue LoL squad. Brian and Steph discuss performance, strategy and (e)sports psychology with Ismael in this episode

Scottish Esports is gathering pace and leading the charge is Mark McCready who represents the kilt wearing crowd in the British Esports Association. Steph & Brian talk to him about the emerging college scene, expensive esports stadiums in Dundee and  the fact that Fifa as an esport is Scotland’s best chance of winning a football world cup in the future! […]

Lane Pushing Games? We repeat this is not about Moba’s but about lane pushing games so ask Sean yourself to explain the difference on Twitter (@Softmints4) or take some time to read up on the differences on this amazing labour of love website https://lanepushinggames.com https://twitter.com/softmints4 → Sean on twitter! https://lanepushinggames.com/ → Game design and history https://playcauseway.com/ → Causeway, the game […]

With almost 20 years in ESL, and as founding editor of the Esports Yearbook, Julia Hiltscher knows a little about esports and is currently preparing to defend her PhD thesis. We discuss her topic of MOBA and culture and develop an understanding of how rooted modern esports is in humanity's collective cultural history!

Philip Hubner (@PhilHubner) has worked at ESL and Twitch and is now Chief Business Development Officer at Challenger Mode, a platform that offers online esports infrastructure to all the key stakeholders in the industry including players, organizers and game developers. With @stephanieorme & @DrBrianMcCauley