New study on e-sports - stress levels often unhealthy high
E-sports is already being operated in a similar professional manner to professional sports. Example FIFA 21. Here the different professional teams, for example, fight for the German Championship in the Virtual Bundesliga. Clubs from the first and second German football Bundesliga are also involved. For example, RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim, FC Augsburg, FC Sandhausen or SSV Jahn Regensburg have sent their own professional teams into the race.
Other teams like FC Bayern Munich are on the road in PES 2021 Season. Accordingly, the pressure on the players is often unhealthily high. Of course it's about winning as well as prize money, but above all about sponsorship and the support of the clubs, which of course demand corresponding successes. If you really want to be up there and maybe even get a contract with a renowned club, you have to live for the sport and sit in front of the computer and train for many hours every day.
Just like e-sports itself, the betting market on e-sports events is also booming. This received a real boost in 2020 after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, when operations in almost all European leagues were suspended. Since no bets on real games could be offered, online bookmakers focused on betting on e-sports events in order to at least partially compensate for the drop in sales. This went down very well with the betting friends. Bets are placed on e-sports matches as never before. Even casino games, such as those offered by MrCasinova.com, were played more frequently, which actually made the industry profit from Corona as a whole.
Just as much stress as professional athletes
According to a study published some time ago by the English University of Chichester, the stress level of the e-sports players corresponds to that of the professional athletes in the European leagues who play week after week for the title, international places or to avoid relegation. Here, too, it's about contracts, salaries and bonuses. Whoever shows the slightest signs of weakness can quickly be out of the business. Most people can only guess what kind of
