{"id":62129,"date":"2022-02-22T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2022\/02\/22\/etat-des-lieux-du-sport-electronique-au-quebec-en-debut-2022\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:30:22","slug":"the-state-of-esports-in-quebec-in-early-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2022\/02\/22\/the-state-of-esports-in-quebec-in-early-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of esports in Quebec in early 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is a challenge to provide a complete picture of such an evolving ecosystem as esports. I would therefore like to thank all the people who helped me gather the raw data (Savard, 2021a) that was used to develop this article. Then, before I begin reading this article, I would like to share with you some editorial choices I had to make:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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  1. Content structure<\/strong>. Quickly, while listing the different actors in Quebec, I was confronted with a classification problem. Even if it doesn’t do justice to all the activities an organization can do, I decided to classify them in the category where their main activities were. The broad categories of the esports ecosystem and scene that is used in this article are: video game, developers & publishers, players, franchises & teams, tournaments & leagues, operators, federation & regulators, education & health, media, fans, brands & investors (Savard, 2021b). The lists are arranged in the French alphabetical order.
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  2. Exhaustiveness of content.<\/strong> In order to lighten the text, I have decided not to concentrate my efforts on identifying the entirety of the actors of a category, but rather to ensure a good representativeness. This decision is reflected particularly, but not only, at the level of the teams and the amateur to semi-professional players.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    ” Video game ” and ” Developers & Publishers ”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    For several years now, Montreal has been internationally recognized as a major video game hub (Bay, 2015; Kawanabe, 2021; Totilo, 2021; Tyler, 2021). If we add the studios present in other cities of the province such as Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Saguenay (Gamedevmap, 2021), nearly one out of every two jobs in the video game industry in Canada comes from Quebec (La Guilde, 2021). Although the vast majority of games developed in Quebec are not necessarily competitive (Games From Quebec, 2021), there are well-known titles that are. For example, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege is made in Montreal (Ubisoft Montreal, 2015), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered was made in Quebec City (Beenox, 2020), Motive Studios worked on Starwars Battlefront II (DICE, Criterion Games and Motive Studios, 2017), etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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