What is the ESWC?

The XXIst century new sport

The Electronic Sports World Cup is a worldwide competition of video games, starting locally with national qualifying, to end with a World Final gathering all the cyberathletes and designed as a live show.

The ESWC has been created by a French team, and has grown as an independent and innovative project, representing gamers and online communities. ESWC is part and pioneer of the electronic sports international movement. ESWC federates company as non-profit organization all over the world; all convinced that video games champions are genuine athletes, precursors of their generation and the new sports of the XXIst century.

Key facts

  • ESWC is present in over 50 countries after 8 years of development
  • More than 5 000 national and international events have been produced under the ESWC banners
  • Google register more than 8 millions web pages with the ESWC occurrence on Internet

ESWC is an international protected trademark and patent, owned by Games Solution since 2009, French company supported by the Group Coutant Finances.

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History of the ESWC International Finals

ESWC 2010 Finals
Disneyland® Paris, France
June 30 - July 4, 2010


ESWC 2008 Finals
Convention Center, San José, USA
August 25-27, 2008


ESWC 2007 Finals
Hall 5 Paris Expo, France
July 5-8, 2007

 

ESWC 2006 Finals
Bercy, Paris, France
June 28 - July 2nd, 2006

 

ESWC 2005 Finals
Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
July 6-10, 2005

 

ESWC 2003 & 2004 Finals
Parc du Futuroscope, Poitiers, France
July 8-13, 2003 and July 7-11, 2004