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Some do play a role at offline events where organisers need to work with national sporting bodies to host their competitions, which can have its own pitfalls like the last minute rescheduling of Te International.
It’s also important to note that each game within esports is different, each with their own regulatory requirements. FIFA oversees football, but you wouldn’t expect them to also act as the regulatory body for basketball or cricket – it should be the same for esports.
As such, ESIC has become a body that essentially fills the gaps within esports. It focuses on maintaining integrity in esports events all around the globe and is specialised in tackling the global nature of esports and the games within it. Te way forward for overcoming and deterring match fixing is a long one, but a strong step forward would be national bodies taking a positive position on esports and collaborating with ESIC to better ensure competitive integrity for esports competition in their jurisdiction.
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THIRD-PARTY DATA SUPPLIER ROLE
While governing bodies definitely play a key role in mitigating match fixing, there’s another aspect to consider entirely: data providers and esports betting itself. First off, it’s vital to note that data is helpful to protect against match- fixing, but serves mainly as supplementary protection. It’s possible data can help spot match-fixing and acts more as a tool to help prevent it in the future.
Esports data can come in various forms. Performance statistics and bet logs are 2 different types of data that can help spot match- fixing. Bet logs are obviously incredibly useful for understanding betting patterns and behaviours, bettor profiling, risk management and so on.
While for performance statistics you can see if players are playing at their expected performer, better or worse and then outliers which may require investigation. Te second of these two is a bit murkier, as understanding how and why a
The way forward for overcoming and deterring match fixing is a long one, but a strong step forward would be national bodies taking a positive position on esports and collaborating with ESIC to better ensure competitive integrity for esports competition in their jurisdiction.
player performs the way is very complex.
Meanwhile, the right data provider can play a more significant role. PandaScore, specialises in esports data and has a specialist trading team on hand, dedicating extra resources to combating match fixing. Tis includes monitoring odds movements and betting activity to protect customers from potential risk, as well as taking into account in depth esports specifics.
As noted earlier, the 35 CS:GO players who were
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