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ESFI’s esports journey in 2020

ESFI’s esports journey in 2020

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Esports Federation of India (ESFI)’s year began with Indian team qualifying from South Asia for the e-Masters Esports Championship for PES, Arena of Valor and Warcraft III after defeating teams from Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. Team India consisted of Moinuddin Aamdani (PES), Arun Mozhi Varman (Warcraft) and Sonukaran J M (Captain), Shinil R, Aditya Katoch, Manmohan Singh and Aakash Chadalavada, Dwayne Fernandes (Substitute) (Arena of Valor) e-Masters in the Asian Championship organized by the Asian Esports Federation (AESF), the regional qualifiers of which were held in Jan 20 in Thailand for PES, where Moin was representing India, unfortunately Moin lost a very close match against Team Malaysia. Nevertheless Team India (AOV &Warcraft) will play at the main event of e-Masters 2020.

National Esports Championship (NESC2020) was organized in Sept’20 online due to covid-19 and Moinuddin Amdani, Abhinav Tejan and Team Random came out victorious and bagged the National Titles and secured their slot in Team India for the 12thEsports World Championship organized by International Esports Federation (IESF), the Global Finals of which are to be schedules in Feb’21 in Eilat, Israel. Tejan and Moin (Tekken & PES) maintained their winning streak to win the online South Asian Qualifiers of 12th ESWC and will represent India at the Global Finals.

The Festive month of Oct’20 brought new opportunities for the Indian esports community as ESFI started with the daily national ranking scrims for game titles like Call of Duty-Mobile, Valorant and in the month of December ESFI also included Free Fire and will be adding more games. This is a great chance for the top & underdog team to get themselves recognized and Ranked; this will give them bigger visibility, which at times they loose out on. The November months Top 10 Ranked Teams for CODM are:

Blind Esports, Force One, Enigma Gaming, Heroes Official, Xpendables, Complexity Gaming, Underdog Arena, Resilience Esports, Hex Esports, Dragon knights.

ESFI also announced Community Cup for CODM & Valorant.

Growth of esports has not gone unnoticed during COVID-19, Artsmith one of the leading communications & PR agency joined hands with ESFI to take the sport to the next level in the country in the month of July.

ESFI conducted many knowledge sharing sessions, creating awareness about esports, its health issues, etc. some of the key sessions were “GAME-O-PEDIA : Understanding Esports – A Physiotherapy Approach” by Rotaract Club where world renowned physiotherapist like Caitlin McGee, DPT, M.S.(Anat), B.S.(Sport science) – Co-owner of 1HP, Director of Performance at XO Academy and Raul Ramirez, DPT, B.S.(Kinesiology) – Skilled in preventing and treating gamer injuries, planning wellness programs came and talked about the physiotherapy in esports; National webinar on “Career in Esports” held by Jitin Chawla Career Counseling Institute, Tirth Mehta (Bronze Medal – Esports during Asian Games’18) and Kartikeya Behl(celebrity FIFA esports athlete) shared their insights on opportunities in esports. Emphasizing on ‘Emerging Areas for Sports Managers – ESPORTS’ a session was organized by LJ Institute of Sports Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Esports is about to achieve glory in the country as the honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi routed for #AtmanirbharBharat in the Gaming sector. The future of Esports in India can be well predicted with the statement of IESF General Secretary Totovski, “India has the potential to become the Esports powerhouse”.

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