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Where Do Amateurs Go to Become Pros? A Comparison of the Current Competition Systems in Collegiate Esports to Traditional Collegiate Sport Environments

Wil Fisackerly and Yongjin Hwang

esports environments manifest themselves. The traditional sport pipeline will first be examined specifically in the context of collegiate competition in sport environments with minor leagues (i.e., basketball and baseball) and without (i.e., American football). After establishing this context, the

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Do We Need Esports Ecology? Comparisons of Environmental Impacts Between Traditional Sport and Esports

Walker J. Ross and Wil Fisackerly

natural environment as it requires specific environmental conditions to be met to play (e.g., mountainous terrain with snow for skiing or a field with dry conditions for baseball). At the same time, sport is impacted by changing climates that may make it unplayable which could include a warming climate

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Stress Management Strategies in Esports: An Exploratory Online Survey on Applied Practice

Oliver Leis, Matthew Watson, Laura Swettenham, Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez, and Franziska Lautenbach

, 2007 ). This seems important as comparisons between athletes in traditional sports and esports players have demonstrated differences in the average age. In detail, athletes in Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and National Basketball Association show an average age between 26.01 and 29

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Esports Minus Sport?

Gil Fried

, is an important objective for the esports industry. FIT Offerings In 2023, FIT offered men’s baseball, basketball, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, and swimming, while also offering women’s sports of basketball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, and volleyball. There was one coed sport listed on the

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Survival of Professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Teams: What Matters? A Research Note

Timo Schöber, Georg Stadtmann, Petr Parshakov, and Igor Tylkin

of wins enjoyed longer tenures. Similarly, Scully ( 1994 ) obtained analogous findings in multisport studies encompassing baseball, basketball, and football. Barros et al. ( 2009 ) established the positive impact of the “Bosman ruling” 2 on coaches’ job security. Radoman ( 2017 ) also demonstrated

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The Effect of Extended Reality Exercise on Physical Activity and Physical Performance in Children and Youth: A Scoping Review

Simon Schaerz, Morgan Boyes, and Amanda Mohamed

group: Six 50-min, lunch-hour virtual reality sessions consisting of object control games (e.g., tennis, golf, and baseball on XBOX Kinect). Control group : Regular lunch-hour activities Perceived and actual object control competence (two-hand strike, one-hand strike, ball bounce, catch, kick

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Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits Predict Car-Soccer Video Game Performance

Justin W. Bonny

-8869(97)81000-8 Knowles , G. , Sherony , K. , & Haupert , M. ( 1992 ). The demand for major league baseball: A test of the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis . The American Economist, 36 ( 2 ), 72 – 80 . 10.1177/056943459203600210 Kokkinakis , A.V. , Cowling , P.I. , Drachen , A. , & Wade , A.R. ( 2017