Week 1 Masterclass: Playing the game—the right way
Summary
With the increase in prizes and the accessibility of esports players, and the increase in gambling on esports, there are significant integrity concerns involved in every esports tournament. Ensuring integrity in tournaments or leagues starts as early as the creation of its structure itself. Come learn and workshop how to set up a basic, yet fair, tournament, how the esports industry ensures fairness for its competitors, what happens when that fairness is violated, and the many businesses that rely on fair play.
Topics Covered
- How is the industry ensuring fair play
- The difficulties around ensuring integrity
- Who benefits from fair play
- How and why to structure a tournament or league
- Opportunities in integrity
Who Should Attend
- People that want to become pro players
- Families of people who want to become pro players
- People who want to create esports events, tournaments or leagues
- People wanting to participate but may not be in a life situation to go full time pro
GUEST SPEAKER:
Hai Ng Bio
Hai Ng is a co-founder of Spawn Point—a global firm dedicated to creating opportunity at the intersection of esports and the regulated gaming industry. The company works with integrated resorts and other gaming venues, regulators, educators, and operators to create esports-centered synergies between industries.
In addition to Spawn Point, Hai is also an active entrepreneur in esports, owning and advising a number of esports companies including his own esports team in Asia. He also speaks and consults globally on esports, in addition to penning multiple published articles in a variety of trade publications. He was also recently appointed Integrity Ambassador to the Esports Integrity Commission, the leading global organization overseeing competitive integrity of esports competitions.
A daily gamer since his first visit to the amusement arcade when he was a young child, Hai holds more than four decades of experience in technology, and almost two in regulated gaming—a rare combination of breadth and depth in experience which positions him as a thought leader within the industry.
