Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Doping Commonplace Among Gamers
Electronic Sports League (ESL), known as one of the organization's e-Sport world are planning to introduce anti-drug policies among the participants of the tournament. This was done following the discovery of the use of narcotics (doping) the type of Adderall among participants.
In order to eradicate the use of drugs around the neighborhood league, ESL also in cooperation with NADA (Nationale Anti-Doping Agentur) based in Bonn, Germany. "In order to maintain the spirit of fair play of the participants, ESL in cooperation with NADA to conduct research and create anti-drug policy, without prejudice to respect for the privacy of the participants," wrote ESL in his statement.
Yes, recently Kory Friesen, a professional gamer Counter-Strike: Go admitted that he and his team have used Aderral play. Not only that, he also revealed the astonishing fact if Adderral use has become commonplace in the e-Sport. "We all use Adderall," said Friesen.
"The growth and popularity of e-Sports is growing rapidly, which also affected the increase in nominal prize, make not only tempt the participants to break the rules, but also damage the image of e-Sport in the eyes of the world," wrote ESL quoted from Gamespot.
As a form of starters, ESL will perform tests on the participants to determine whether they are positive or negative using drugs. This test will take place at the tournament ESL One Cologne in August 2015.
Later, ESL and NADA was hoping if these tests can be done in various kinds of tournaments, such as the Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One, and ESL Pro ESEA League series.
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