Entre o virtual e o real : a legitimação e a expansão do esporte eletrônico

• Autor(a) principal: Albuquerque, Ellber Rodrigo Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/9777
• topic: Educação Física; Ensino de educação física; E-sports; Esporte de alto rendimento; Jogos eletrônicos; Profissionalização do esporte; Electronic Games; High performance sports; Professionalization of Sports; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA

E-sport is short for electronic sports, which is the term used to name professional electronic game competitions in the world. Similar to traditional sports, the competitions are organized in different modalities. The e-sports market is a global phenomenon that in recent years has gone through a great process of professionalization, with competitions growing significantly in structure and starting to offer regular calendars with high valued prizes for the organizations, which see it as professional work. This study aimed to analyze and understand the main factors that contributed to the growth of electronic sports and the conditions that can attract players to this scenario, so we can understand how the consolidation of this modality occurred in the 21st century. To carry out this research, we used the qualitative textual method that is characterized by analysis of pre-existing texts or of produced material through interviews and new observations of the researcher. The data of this research was constituted by articles related to games and electronic games, news on electronic sports and interviews with people from the state of Sergipe (Northeast Brazil) who have been involved with electronic sports. As a result, we realized that e-sports have gone from a controversial theme to an accepted phenomenon, especially through its approximation to traditional sports and the growing participation of institutions, traditional teams and celebrities in this scenario; and it has continued to develop thanks to technological advances and the arrival of electronic sports in the media, as well as the gratuity of access to the main modalities of this context, which ends up attracting players