The Finland-Sweden worldwide match might be on e-sports – Muricas News

Finland and Sweden will compete in an digital sports activities match, which might be organized in reference to the standard athletics occasion in September.

“The primary time is for testing. We are going to play 5 video games on-line, after which we'll ask for suggestions on e.g. scoring and competitors format”, chairman of the Finnish Digital Sports activities Affiliation Will Qvist tells STT.

In line with Qvist, a trial nationwide match can even be held in Stockholm in a yr.

“The identical discussions are going down in Sweden, however there isn't any full certainty in regards to the group.”

Major sight The Finnish Sports activities Federation and SEUL have a yr of 2024, when an e-sports match could be performed bodily on the Olympic Stadium.

“With respect to custom, we should additionally modernize our nationwide matches on the Olympic Stadium. With the assistance of e-sports, we're capable of attain utterly new audiences who haven't beforehand skilled or adopted athletics as a type of sport”, commented the chairman of SUL Sami Itani within the bulletin.

Swedish athletics matches have been held since 1925.