Finally we hold the first eSports Yearbook in our hands and it looks great.

You will find a short overview about the book at Google and currently it is available at Amazon Germany, United Kingdom (should be soon buyable) and Japan. With the ISBN (978-3839164310) it should be orderable at any book store. Soon the book will be available at Amazon.com. Please find the link to the free eBook in the article above.

We would love to see you holding the print version in your hands, so please send us your pictures with the eSports Yearbook 2009 and we will upload them to the site. Additional you can already think about your articles for the next book and start sending them to us.

Please send us your articles until 30th of November 2010.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We are open to any ideas. Whether you would like to be the person on the cover or you would like to show your eSports art in the next book… we will be glad to be inspired!

contact@esportsyearbook.com

Hi guys and girls! Our deadline will be the 10th of December 2009! Do not let it woosh by! We just got some cool new contributers, like Dario Salice! Remember, the book will be published world-wide via amazon, nobody earns money with this project. But if somebody from every eSports nation writes a cool article for this book, it will be interesting to everyone and in the end of the day the result will mirror what eSports is like in a very unique way.

Don’t be shy! If you have any funny last-minute idea, tell us! We are open to anything, because this is YOUR project.

Tobi and I only make sure that every voice will be heared and that the book will look fantastic. You are the writers, we are the layout guys! We ask you by this to send us your texts. You grab a cup of tea or coffe and write something awesome, something personal, something about your job in eSports or about your favourite game… This is a book for eSports fans, written by players, managers and editors. A book from eSports enthusiasts for eSports enthusiasts. And the best part is: The print version of this book can be used to present eSports to people who need to get a first eSports overview. For example, clans could order the book and give it to potential sponsors. Students at universities can quote from the book, even if they only use the eBook as a source.

Have fun!

During the last weeks we had the chance to gather some interesting authors for the book and we got some facts straight for the book publishing. The picture of it is getting more and more clearly every day.

So today we want to spread our news and our sneak peak with a pdf which will be in the size of the book’s pages. However, it is not the final layout.

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Here is the Sneak Peak of the eSports Yearbook 2009 and don’t forget there is still plenty of time to submit your story and we are eager to read it! But you also have to start thinking hard about what you want to write and when to write it, because if you forget it before Christmas, you will let us and your fans down and be not in this book ;/ awwwww ! XD

Dear eSports fans and representatives!

Today is again a very proud day for our eSports yearbook team. More and more people are asking us, if they can be part of our fantastic non-profit project.
Thank you for all the help and the ideas that you have offered to us so far!

Who can participate?
Gamers, people working in eSports, eSports journalists

Until when do I have to contribute?
Deadline: 2009 eSports Yearbook: December 10th 2009
Deadline: 2010 eSports Yearbook: November 30th 2010

Who is already in?
Patrick “FragFrog” Kasper, Matthias “Losemann” Beyer, Damla Pinar Gök, David “affentod” Hiltscher, Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel,  Jean-Christophe “LOBO” Arnaud, Alessandro “stermy” Avallone,  Lari Syrota, Konstantin “swine” Bös, David Donschen, Steven Leunens… and many many more

What is it good for?
A book full of opinions, serious and funny eSports stories can only be good for everybody in eSports. A book about WoW, CS, Need for Speed, eSports in China, eSports in Russia, in Turkey, in Germany, in France, Romania… can be shown to journalists who did not yet really get what you were talking about. You can use this book as a gift to your friends and family. You can show this book to your sponsors or give it to them as a present. If you help us to launch this book in 2009, there will also be one for 2010 and so on. This means that after several years you can really see it as a yearbook, as if eSports was a school full of classes full of gamers and the book will remind you of faces you maybe have not seen for some time.

How do I contribute to this?
Send us about 1500 words in English and some nice pictures that illustrate your story. Your story should be about eSports. It can be your opinion on one topic. It can be an article on something you want everybody to read. It can be a funny story or a serious one. It can be the story of your clan or of your career.

How to contact the eSports Yearbook staff:
contact@esportsyearbook.com

We wish you a splendid weekend!

Julia + Tobi

As a little cookie we proudly present to you a name from our secret list of authors:

Damla Pinar Gök

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

We are very happy about the e-mails we got from famous players and distinguished people working in eSports. Many interesting people that run the show or make the fans bite their lips/ jump into the air responded. But this is not enough: we want more. We want to make sure that everyone in eSports that feels like he or she has to tell a story for 2009 sends us an e-mail. Every eSports institution/ clan can send us a 1500-words-long story about them. Feel free to contact us if you are not sure about how to write/ present your story. You are also free to choose pictures for your pages in the book. The book will be published internationally online, it is a print version, it will also be available via amazon. That is why this book (with its many different faces, pictures and stories), if you participate, can be eye-opening to many people, including the press.

Make sure you write your article in English. We reply to all questions immediately:

contact@esportsyearbook.com

yours

J+T