European Grassroots Esports Resources

The main goal of the European Grassroots Esports project is to underline and show a third way between commercialised esports and the individualised gaming culture. In this document we have taken the first step towards this. First, we provide our definition of grassroots esports, which focuses on the actual activity and everything surrounding it, as well as the people who participate. After this, we map the stakeholders that are involved in grassroots esports.

We divide them into two categories: grassroots esports stakeholders and general stakeholders in esports. While doing the mapping of the stakeholders, we have been able to identify some of the most common ways to work with grassroots esports initiatives. When you read through this document, you will get a definition of grassroots esports, a mapping of the stakeholders, grassroots esports tactics, and case studies with specific esports initiatives.