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> eSports organisations are groups or companies that create, manage,

own and sponsor pro players and/or teams. There are a lot of
organisations and companies, but there are a lot of notable ones.
Some notable ones include:
• Moist eSports
• FaZe clan
• Cloud9
• TSM
• Renegades
• And more…
> eSport associations do many things, such as educating the public on
esports, funding and running eSport events, bringing awareness to
places such as schools, colleges, and more. Notable ones include:
• National eSports association
• eSports trade association

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 The USA is a gigantic hub of grassroots,
amateur, semi-pro, and professional esports
events. The USA are the second largest
commercial esports market in the world
behind only China, but is the leading country
globally in esports industry investment;
therefore it is only natural that tournament
organisers of huge events and games are
incentivised to host their events within the
country due to such a commercial demand
of these esports events.
USA-hosted Esports events
It’s important to note the Esports industry
in the USA and the world goes far past the
tiny percentile of multi-million dollar
earning professional players and multi-
million dollar events; the esports scene is
built on grassroot events hosted by
hundreds and thousands of tournament
organisers over the country across
hundreds of games

Some of the largest gaming tournaments and events have been held in the USA since the birth of
the Esports industry.
• Evolution Championship Series – 1996-Present
EVO is a famously historic tournament tailored towards the Fighting Game Community, hosted in
the USA. Before the rebrand to ‘EVO’ in 2002, the tournament was called ‘Battle by the Bay’, in
which it hosted Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha 2 in 1996. To present day,
EVO 2023 hosted a huge range of FGC games such as; Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter 6, Dragon
Ball FighterZ, The King of Fighters XV, Melty Blood, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, and Tekken 7.
• Major League Gaming – 2002-2015
Another historic tournament that has hosted plentiful games over the years, but is most famous
for Halo in the earlier years and Call of Duty in the later years. MLG has been hosted in a variety of
American cities such as New York City, Las Vegas, Dallas, and Anaheim.
• VALORANT Champions – 2023
The final event of the Riot Games-hosted Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) was located in Los
Angeles, California. Despite the entire tour not being held in the USA, the final event of the entire
year long tour being held in the USA is a testament to the value that the USA brings to the Esports
industry.

https://esportsinsider.com/2023/04
/esports-around-the-world-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_esports_leagues_and_tournaments
usa#:~:text=Introduction,it%20come
s%20to%20industry%20investment https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2023/Champions
 UK vs USA Esports Organisation and Structure
UK
There are no specific laws in England that regulate the Esports
industry.
The primary association regarding Esports in the UK is the British
eSports Association (BEA) which helps to support amateur esports
players and teams through promoting good governance.
Furthermore, The World eSports Association (WESA) is a global point
of reference for esports league regulations in which the UK follows
regarding esports competition.
Lastly, The eSports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) was established by key
esports stakeholders in a mission to create and publish a participants
Code of Conduct, Anti-Corruption Code, and an Anti-Doping policy to
assist in the unification of a regulatory framework to help combat
integrity threats in esports.
The UK esports industry takes every association into consideration
when organising and hosting esports events, leading to fair and
healthy competition throughout the country.
https://www.britishsportslaw.org/esports-regulatory-concerns.html
USA
The USA government officially recognises Esports, meaning funding is
provided towards Esports and esports specific laws assist in regulating the
industry.
A leading association in the USA is the United States Esports Association
(USEA) which pushes the American values into American Esports and aims
to create publicly responsible esports. The priority is fair competition,
accessible opportunities for development, and universal standardisation of
esports.
Major competitive video game developers such as Riot Games, Blizzard,
and Psyonix, all run their own professional competitive circuits; VALORANT
Champions Tour, League Championship Series, Overwatch League, Rocket
League Championship Series. These companies are all based in America
and therefore abide by general and specific American law.
Furthermore, it is common practice in the USA for colleges and universities
to partake in national collegiate tournament series, with schools even
often offering scholarships to esports students to compete on their teams;
while the UK also has college and university level competition, it is still far
out the realms of American collegiate competition, largely thanks to big
developer support of esports games.
Overall, the organisation and structure between the UK and USA is
generally similar, with a few key differences such as American laws, and
collegiate level competition
https://www.esportsus.org/