To revitalize the community through e-sports To establish a training base for players and leaders 5:58 on August 20, Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefecture has set up a budget for necessary expenses to the prefectural assembly to open up a base for nurturing athletes and leaders in order to make use of “e-sports”, which is a competitive computer game, as a competition. The policy to submit was solidified.
esports has been actively hosting competitions with high prizes overseas, and will be adopted for official competitions in the 2022 Asian Games, and a professional player qualification system has begun in Japan.
Ibaraki Prefecture has been studying to establish a training base for athletes and leaders in the Prefectural Cultural Center in Mito City, in order to make use of this e-sports for regional revitalization.
In addition to establishing an academy to train athletes and instructors by introducing state-of-the-art equipment for e-sports, such as high-performance personal computers, this base introduces e-sports-related markets to companies in the prefecture and encourages entry. It also has a function to do.
In addition, we want to lead local revitalization by holding events where the residents can experience e-sports.
Ibaraki Prefecture plans to include approximately 20 million yen as the necessary expenses for maintenance in the supplementary budget draft submitted to the regular prefectural assembly starting on the 30th of this month, aiming for opening this fiscal year.