The developers of a number of companies created the Expert Council of the gaming industry (ESII)

Developers from Mail.Ru Group, Riot Games CIS, Wargaming and other companies created the Expert Council for the gaming industry . It includes people like Ilya Karpinsky (Mail.ru), Vyacheslav Makarov (Wargaming), Alexey Krainov (Riot Games CIS), Anton Yudintsev (Gaijin Entertaiment), Orlovsky Sergey (Nival).

The Council has many goals. Among the main ones, the quality of games created in the region, the support of developers and the development of e-sports can be highlighted.

The CIS gaming market is considered one of the fastest growing in the world. According to statistics from NewZoo in 2014 , the Russian gaming market ranked 12th in the world and showed rather serious growth. The Russian-speaking gaming audience is estimated at almost 40 million players, much of which is willing to spend money on games.
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The board has not yet been fully formed. You can apply for membership on the organization’s website.

We asked Alexey Krainov, director of Riot Games CIS, how Riot sees its own role in the ESIA structure and which of its goals considers priorities:

The development of professional eSports. First of all, an impulse is needed for the development of professional cyber-sports organizations, the application of the best management practices of traditional sports in the preparation of professional teams and
Achieve high results: team management, psychological training, physiotherapy.

Professional computer sport is a vivid and fascinating spectacle, a real sports confrontation with all the attributes of the manifestation of support for one of the competing teams and the art of individual player skills.
To create and develop cybersport media content to the level of world sports standards, you need to find, develop and support talented authors, commentators and enthusiasts. Semi-professional competitions should create healthy competition and rotation within the professional cyber-sports scene, be a scouting platform for finding new talents.

It is important to develop all segments of computer sports, and not just the professional scene. Amateur tournaments, student leagues, school competitions are necessary to create a diverse competitive environment for all levels of players.

On the one hand, a player or team who wants to prove their high skills should have a chance to challenge professionals, this requires regular semi-professional competitions. On the other hand, the gaming community needs a tournament creation tool.
varying degrees of duration and difficulty to find your “comfortable” level. The passion for video games should bring pleasure from participating in competitions and emotional relief from watching the game.