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One of the great strangers of the esports are the referees as mysterious as necessary.


The eSports sector is experiencing vertical growth. In the last years a capillary movement has been developed around the world that has helped to create organizations and teams, and the tournaments are increasingly publicized, more followed, independently of the videogame in question. For this reason, it has been necessary to create new figures to organize and control, such as that of the referees.

The referees are essential for the competitions and matches, we make known what they do and how this profession is developed.

What do referees do?

The referees have a central role in organizing and conducting the tournament: they organize the meetings, update the scores, announce the winner. They also have the role of moderators, in fact they must make sure that every player maintains a correct and sporty behavior. The importance of the referee is more noticeable when the worst enemy of the eSports presents itself, a bug in the system: in these cases the gamers must stop and wait for the referee's verdict, the only one who can decide how to proceed.

Professional development

The most important thing is to have knowledge of different games, because you will have to help the players in the problems of the game. Have knowledge of computer science and know the configuration of audio so much of exit as of entrance, the one of the own game and the errors that this can generate. The referees also have to be very versatile at the time of developing activities, because they have to work with production so that the players are ready, the scenario prepared and the computers are fully prepared for their use. Referees have come to develop this work but do not reach large figures.

The greatest challenges that referees face

The biggest difficulty of a referee is the coordination with television when carrying the game out because they have to be very strict with the times, in addition to everything that involved the world of the show.

Future profession

The referee now grows and gains importance at the same pace as the esports.            They are little known figures, but whose performance is essential for the proper functioning of any competition. Due to the constant growth of the esports world it will surely be a job that will have great relevance, and a good remuneration.