— Published June 19, 2024

The door opens for esports

World Games

Very trendy. The International World Games Association (IWGA) announces that it has entered into a partnership agreement with the Global Esports Federation. It paves the way for the entry of eSports into the World Games program, the next edition of which is scheduled to take place in August 2025 in Chengdu, China. According to the terms of this agreement presented as “ strategic”, electronic sports could be present next year as a demonstration, before integrating the multisport event as official sports during subsequent editions. Coincidentally with the calendar, the IWGA's announcement comes less than a week after the decision of the IOC Executive Board to create, in the presumed near future, the electronic sports Olympic Games.