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Hi,
I’m doing some research into the possibility of offering real money Esports betting.

As I don’t post here very often I’ll quickly introduce myself: I’m Luke Cotton and I manage Power Gaming who you may have heard of, and I’ve been working in Esports for over 5 years. I hope that this topic is in the correct forum / doesn’t break any rules, apologies if it’s in the wrong place.

I have a company that’s interested in the idea in principle but we need some statistical research in order to really push it forwards, so if you could provide even the slightest bit of information I’d be most thankful as it not only could offer an interesting proposition for you from a financial point of view, but could really help to push Esports forwards into the mainstream, and also offering betting on it helps the case for us to get Government recognition of Esports as an official sport. It’d be pretty cool to be able to tell your mates that they can bet on you to win games I’m sure! ;)

For the sake of this post, assume that there is a way to prevent match fixing (through limits, through bet monitoring etc.)

I’ve made a survey and would appreciate it if you could fill that out (as well as posting any general discussion / questions!)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WCW8VJ

Thanks very much for your help.

Ninja edit nvc

However this is something i’ve been interested in for a while, I’ve taken the survey and will be following progress

why the f do you want esports betting , when you got football betting?

INB4 PREM TEAMS LOSING TO DIV6.

Match Fixing: In Korea there were no limits on the betting amounts. You offer limits relative to the prizes on offer so there isn’t the incentive to throw games. There are many other methods that I don’t really want to disclose details of publicaly for obvious reasons.

Jacob Nielsen, XLBet Co-Founder:
“I would be ignorant if I say that I am 100% sure it has never happened, but at least I can confirm that we didn’t have any issues at XLBet forcing us to cancel bets for suspicious reasons”.”
“”Furthermore we are in close contact with both ESL and HLTV.org, and we have had examples where these and also actual team managers have contacted us after a “weird” result wanting to hear if some “funny” money was placed on the odd outcome, but as for now answers have always been NO”
http://www.hltv.org/news/2267-can-e-sport-matches-be-fixed

Re: PaddyPower – it looks very unlikely that they will do any more events, at least not on a regular basis.

Re: Government recognition: We (the leading players in the UK esports industry) are always in contact about anything related to the Government and gaming, and we aren’t going to let some chumps come along and fleece us again! Having betting offered on a sport helps to increase its legitimacy and public awareness though.

saw this on tek-9, have done the survey. gl =)

Survey completed, love the idea but do have concerns with the match fixing thing.

Limit’s are all well and good, however what’s stopping each member of a random top team, let’s say power gaming for instance, bettting up to the limit on losing, plus all their friends, and all their e-friends, and their families, and the friends of their families, and their dogs….you get the idea.

The limit on the betting would have to be AT LEAST a sixth of the winnings in TF2, otherwise the temptation will be there for the team members to group together to lose a cap here and there.

Are we talking about 10/20 pence/cent betting here?