“E-sports is the new way to meet and greet people online”
-Nikhil Bhandari
E-sports or Electronic – sports have become a worldwide phenomenon lately. It is the competitive component of video gaming. Video games are used by players to compete with other gamers all over the world. The internet is the most popular method for doing this. This has become as significant as it has, because of the community and the organizations that support it. These sports may not be as physically demanding as traditional sports like football, basketball and etc, but they have a legitimate structure, a devoted following, and the necessary qualifications to compete competitively in the competitive gaming scene. This makes them “genuine sports”. Here are the 03 initiatives undertaken by our fellow clubs which were awarded at the 32nd Rotaract District Training Assembly under the category of “Most Outstanding E-sports Initiatives of the RI year 2021-22”. This article honors the projects that took home the titles and all the effort it undoubtedly took for them to stand out from the competition.
ඊ-ක්රීඩා ලෙසද හඳුන්වනු ලබන ඉලෙක්ට්රොනික – ක්රීඩා මෑතදී ලොව පුරා සංසිද්ධියක් බවට පත්ව ඇත. වෙනත් වචන වලින් කිවහොත්, වීඩියෝ ක්රීඩා වල තරඟකාරී අංගය ඊ-ක්රීඩා ලෙස හැඳින්වේ. වීඩියෝ ක්රීඩා ලොව පුරා සිටින අනෙකුත් ක්රීඩකයින් සමඟ තරඟ කිරීමට ක්රීඩකයින් භාවිතා කරයි. මෙය සිදු කිරීම සඳහා අන්තර්ජාලය වඩාත් ජනප්රිය ක්රමයකි. ප්රජාව සහ එයට අනුබල දෙන සංවිධාන නිසා මෙය වැදගත් වන තරමටම වැදගත් වී ඇත. මෙම ක්රීඩා පාපන්දු, පැසිපන්දු සහ යනාදී සාම්ප්රදායික ක්රීඩා තරම් ශාරීරිකව ඉල්ලුමක් නොතිබිය හැකිය, නමුත් ඒවාට නීත්යානුකූල ව්යුහයක්, කැපවූ අනුගාමිකයෙක් සහ තරඟකාරී ක්රීඩා වේදිකාවේ තරඟකාරී ලෙස තරඟ කිරීමට අවශ්ය සුදුසුකම් ඇත. මෙය ඔවුන් “අව්යාජ ක්රීඩා” බවට පත් කරයි. 32 වන දිස්ත්රික් රොටරැක්ට් එකමුතුවේදී “2021-22 වසරේ විශිෂ්ටතම ඊ-ක්රීඩා මුලපිරීම්” කාණ්ඩය යටතේ ප්රදානය කරන ලද අපගේ සෙසු රොටරැක්ට්වරු විසින් සිදු කරන ලද විශිෂ්ටතම ඊ-ක්රීඩා මුල පිරීම් 03 මෙන්න.
எலக்ட்ரானிக் – ஸ்போர்ட்ஸ் என்றும் அழைக்கப்படும் மின்-ஸ்போர்ட்ஸ் சமீபகாலமாக உலகளாவிய ரீதியில் புகழ் பெற்றுள்ளது. வீடியோ கேம்கள், உலகெங்கிலும் உள்ள மற்ற கேமர்களுடன் போட்டியிட வீரர்களால் பயன்படுத்தப்படுகின்றன. இதைச் செய்வதற்கான மிகவும் பிரபலமான வழி இணையம் ஆகும். இப்போட்டிச் சமூகம் மற்றும் அதை ஆதரிக்கும் அமைப்புகளால் இது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கதாகிவிட்டது. இந்த விளையாட்டுகள் கால்பந்து, கூடைப்பந்து மற்றும் பல பாரம்பரிய விளையாட்டுகளைப் போல உடல் ரீதி ஈடுபாடு தேவைப்படாமல் இருக்கலாம், ஆனால் அவை முறையான அமைப்பு, அர்ப்பணிப்புள்ள பின்தொடர்தல் மற்றும் போட்டி கேமிங் காட்சியில் போட்டியிட தேவையான தகுதிகள் ஆகியவற்றைக் கொண்டுள்ளன. 32வது மாவட்ட ரோட்ராக்ட் கூட்டத்தில் “2021- 22 ஆம் ஆண்டின் மிகச் சிறந்த மின்-விளையாட்டு முயற்சிகள்” என்ற பிரிவின் கீழ் எங்கள் சக கிளப்களால் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட 03 மிகச்சிறந்த இ-ஸ்போர்ட்ஸ் முயற்சிகள் இங்கே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. விருதுகளை வென்ற திட்டங்கள் போட்டியில் இருந்து தனித்து நிற்க,அவர்கள் எடுத்த அனைத்து முயற்சிகளிற்காகவும் இந்த கட்டுரைசமர்ப்பிக்கப் படுகிறது.
Gold – Gamergenix’21 – Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya
Gamergenix’21, which was held back in August 2021 was one of the main events hosted by the Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya. This was the very first e-game initiative organized by the Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya and it is quite commendable that the club secured the golden award for its first e-game initiative itself. This was the largest online gaming project organized in the Rotaract District 3220 with around 500+ participants in the online gaming competition
Gamergenix’21 was an event conducted fully through online platforms, especially for mobile players. The gaming event started on the 13th of August 2021 around 8 pm and continued till the 15th of August 2021 midnight. One of the primary objectives that were fulfilled by Gamergenix’21 along with the purpose to give an entertaining event for skilled gamers was the collection of funds for the club for the period 2021-22 to carry out the club projects. The registrations were absolutely free for the players to get into the game and prizes were awarded to the winners at the end. The Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya had around 574 online registrations for this initiative. The participants of this online gaming initiative set new Sri Lankan Pub-G records, which was the most significant feature of this amazing initiative.
Silver – IIT Gaming Fest – Rotaract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology
IGF online 2021 organized by the Rotaract club of IIT had hype among the Sri Lankan PUBG mobile community where many top teams were able to show their skill and dominance. IIT Gaming fest was conducted from March 27th, 2021 to April 10th, 2021 virtually for the fifth consecutive time. It was one of the massive projects organized by their club last year, where 445 members were registered. They had 04 tournaments in this gaming fest namely: DOTA 02, VALORANT, PUBG Mobile and FIFA 21. FIFA 21 was conducted as a LAN tournament.
The games were live-streamed through their Facebook pages and twitch accounts. The main aim of this initiative was to embrace e-sports in Sri Lanka. IGF also brought Rotaract communities together with participants supporting and enlightening the Rotaract spirit.
Bronze – Respawn 2.0 – Rotaract Club of University of Sri Jayewardhanapura
Respawn 2.0 was a project organized by the Finance Committee along with the Public Relations Committee of the Rotaract Club of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura for the second consecutive year. The event was held virtually from May 29th, 2022 to June 03rd, 2022. The main objective of the initiative was to raise funds for the upcoming projects of the club. It was also initiated with the motive of providing quality and entertaining time to both Rotaractors and Non-Rotaractors by enrolling them in E-sports. The games were live-streamed on the club’s Facebook and YouTube pages
The project was conducted through 02 tournaments namely: PUBG mobile tournament and Call of Duty mobile tournament. The winners were awarded cash prizes at the end of each tournament. They had around 200+ participants registered for the initiative.
Thank you to all fellow clubs and fellow Rotaractors for providing us with the details necessary for this article. Stay tuned for the sixth article of this novel series.
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