The head of e-games explains the implications and benefits of the World Youth discussion

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"Games and eSports: A Glimpse of the Virtual World of the eSports Community" session at the second day of the World Youth Forum in Sharm El Sheikh under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, which will run from 3 to 6 November.

The session dealt with the increasing number of practitioners of these e-sports, hence the international sports organizations recently started to consider their users as athletes, although they do not practice sports in the known sense, and there is a strong tendency to include these sports in the Olympic sports competitions, and major clubs around the world began to form sports teams.

 

As for the electronic games in Egypt and its transformation to the professional form, says Sherif Abdel Baqi, president of the Egyptian Federation of Electronic Games, said that the Federation was founded more than 15 years ago, in 2003, as the first Arab federation concerned with electronic games and their practitioners.

Abdul-Baqi added in remarks to the "homeland" that the Union includes any electronic game played by young people, such as TAKEN and wrestling, but the focus of the Union on a game centered around football games, which has a similar po[CENSORED]r with large masses, explaining that the most important games played by numbers Great is PES and FiFA.

The President of the Federation pointed out that the International Federation of Electronic Games, if organized international tournaments, send to the Egyptian Federation, which is in turn qualifying for the participants to choose Egypt to represent them in the tournament, pointing out that the last tournament participated by Egypt was the World Championship two years ago, in which Egypt For seventh place.

Internal tournaments in Egypt are not regular, but the federation is organizing and establishing them as periodically as possible, according to Abdel Baqi, adding that the federation organized two tournaments during the last book fair, participated in the first 5 clubs, and the second was for the clubs of the 21st century, located in youth centers , Dedicated to technologically and scientifically outstanding, and participated by 17 teams.

The president of the Egyptian Federation of Electronic Games confirmed that he will work to hold the tournament during next year's Book Fair in January, hoping to allocate a large number of halls in the exhibition for the tournament so that the participants in the exhibition from all countries participating in the tournament.

Abdulbaki believes that the electronic games session is well suited to the World Youth Forum, as all young people are using technology as a language of communication between them, they are not isolated in the electronic games community, and that society is completely isolated from them, the majority and non-practitioners of the games are the minority.

President of the Federation believes that electronic games are now the conscience of young people and young people, young people in the last 25 years dealing only in the language of technology, and the impact of electronic games has become easy and easy, and discussed in the World Youth Forum helps to understand their language and dialogue with them, and know their interests.

Abdelbaki pointed out that the biggest evidence of the domination of electronic games on youth, a study prepared by the International Olympic Committee, which confirmed the decline in viewership of the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016 by 30% compared to the World Cup London 2012, because the new generation is linked to the Internet and electronic games more than television, which is This prompted the Committee to consider the introduction of electronic games as an Olympic game after the Tokyo 2020 World Cup.

Economically, electronic games have become a huge industry, according to the president of the Federation, pointing out that the global production of electronic games up to $ 200 million, and Egypt is eligible to enter the industry from its widest doors, a trend served by the allocation of games sessions in a global forum on the ground of Egypt such as Forum Young people of the world, explaining that the discussion of the forum is a success of the message advocated for many years, the importance and seriousness of electronic games.