After two years of absence due to the pandemic, the biggest video game fair, Paris Games Week, returns from November 2 to 6 at Porte de Versailles in Paris, with a good place left for esports in the programming. .
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Since its first edition in 2010, Paris Games Week has always been a showcase for esports, it has always hosted video game competitions. But this year we could be tempted to say that it’s also a bit the opposite, like a dismissal. Explanations with Laure Valée, esports columnist for franceinfo.
Laura Valee: “There will be competitions, the semi-finals of the Coupe de France of League of Legends on the scene. The announcement of the latest France Esport barometer too, which draws up an inventory of the practitioners and the practice of esports in France. There will also be the presentation of the first esports trophies on Tuesday, November 1, on the eve of the opening of the show to the public. The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and the Minister in charge of Digital, Jean-Noël Barrot on this occasion.
There has always been esports at the PGW, it hosted the first esports competitions, but here, I have the impression that they are going all out. Esports has really grown in recent years, so organizers are banking on esports to attract visitors.”
And besides Nicolas Vignolles, the president of SELL, the union of leisure software publishers, which brings together video game players, readily acknowledges this: “In an instant they will see games in which players develop incredible skills, they will see the diversity of games, see that there is strategy, cooperation… So for us esports is is an incredible way to democratize the video game, to explain it in a concrete way. Thanks to esports, visitors will better understand the quintessence of the pleasure of playing video games”.
Paris Games Week, from November 2 to 6, 2022, Porte de Versailles in Paris.