Governance Models For E-Sports

A governance model in sport is necessary to ensure integrity of the sport and to protect rights of its stakeholders: the players, teams, publishers and competition organisers. The existing governance structures in traditional sports have developed over decades alongside the development of the sports. Foremost, a governance system requires a governing body accepted by all stakeholders. There have been attempts in e-sports at introducing models for governance and establishing governing bodies with varying degrees of success.

The challenge in regulating e-sports

E-sports is not one sport. Each game has different internal rules. Further, many countries do not recognize e-sports as a sport at all. E-sports cannot, therefore, take advantage of the existing governance and regulatory structures.