E-Sports Coordinator

Hello, Yasin Nuri Çakır. I am the Coordinator of Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University Sports Research Center. At the same time, I am a member of the Turkish E-Sports Federation E-Sports Education Board of Directors. We are the first and only research centre established in Turkey by the Council of Higher Education 2018. We aim to provide more benefits to this ecosystem with the university students in the ever-growing ecosystem of digital games and eSports. We have two different tasks in terms of theory and application. For the theory part, we have nearly 10 research instructors, and we research the E-Sports ecosystem. We participate in national and international E-Sports tournaments with our E-Sports Team, which we formed within the university. All university students who are interested in digital games, digital game design and eSports gaming and who want to broadcast on platforms such as Youtube and Twitch can benefit from our research centre and coordinator here. Right after our centre was established in 2018, we held an E-Sports Workshop in Turkey. Our aim here is to create sector representatives in the E-Sports system on the one hand, and E-Sports representatives in the public sphere on the other. With this E-Sports Workshop, which we held in 2018, we started to play an active role in E-Sports University Communities in our country. Later, we took part in the game fairs held in Istanbul as participants. Together with the well-established universities of our country, Gazi University, Marmara University and Dokuz Eylul University, we conducted our Online E-Sports training during the pandemic. The 1st level of coaching training conducted by the Turkish E-Sports Federation is offered by our coordinators. At the same time, we hosted the Universities E-Sports Turkey Championship, which was held for the first time in Turkey during Youth Week. E-Sports has increased in popularity both in our country and in the world in the last 10 years. In particular, young people have started to spend more time with digital games during the pandemic. As a result of this increasing demand, the theme of sports began to change, and the concept of E-Sports emerged as a new sports concept. We are talking about a volume of about 1 billion dollars in the world at the moment in the digital game industry. About $100 million of this is entirely in the E-Sports ecosystem. All traditional sports teams of our country have formed E-Sports teams. By not being indifferent to this development and growth, we, as a university, try to bring our students together with E-Sports and to explain that E-Sports is not a goal, on the contrary, E-Sports is a means to an end. Every year, very large online tournaments and organizations are held in our country. We interpret E-Sports as a digitalized form of sports rather than a new branch. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, activities were organized for the realization of E-Sports as a medal sport. In the upcoming Paris Olympics, E-Sports will now appear as a medal branch. In such a growing ecosystem, E-Sports offers our young people a wide range of career opportunities to increase their youth employment reputation. Young people can find new employment opportunities in a wide arena such as acting, coaching and publishing. We welcome all of students who think eSports as an art rather than a sport to our university. I wish endless success to all students who will take the university exam.