نبذة مختصرة : ResuméThis thesis examines the culture surrounding eSports events and how atmosphere, community and environment impacts the participation aspect of the audience. The area of focus will be the counter-strike event Blast Pro Series, which will be enlightened through empiric collected through autoethnographic experiences and interviews related to the subject. To enlighten the subject further, the thesis will be supplemented by theories from Jürgen Hasse (2014) and Gernot Böhme (1993) and their respective views on the term atmosphere. The term atmosphere will be studied through knowledge of participation (Bolt et. al., 2014) to better understand the relationship between environment, atmosphere and participants, and how they impact each other. In order to fully understand the community surrounding eSports, this thesis will compare autoethnographic experiences from the community observed at the football game Atletico Madrid versus Sevilla which took place at Wanda Metropolitano (Homefield of Atletico Madrid). The atmosphere present at eSports events like Blast Pro Series will be analysed from both the perspective that subjects can have an emotional attachment to an object, but also from the perspective that the existence of an atmosphere can be created through participation and passion. The review concludes, that culture surrounding eSports to some extent will be affected by community, environment, atmosphere and passion. These four elements are crucial to any sports culture and will impact the experience of a cultural event.
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