About us
We are IMESA, the International Minesweeper E-Sports Association, an association ("Verein") based in Austria. As such, our German (and legal) name is "Verein für Internationalen Minesweeper-E-Sport".Why
Minesweeper is one of the oldest and most widely-known e-sports, being released as early as 1990. Due to its distribution with every copy of Microsoft Windows over many years, it is an almost universally recognized part of popular culture, not just in the e-sports scene.
World rankings have existed for decades, and international tournaments, even world championships, took place regularly.
The International Minesweeper E-Sports Association was founded to- reestablish and continue a regular schedule for aforementioned international tournaments
- pool resources for the organization of aforementioned international tournaments
- in the course of doing so, enter into contact/relations with sponsors, donors, venues, etc. as a legal entity
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use the means acquired thereby to:
- primarily: reduce or even eliminate financial barriers to participation
- secondarily: motivate participation by paying out moderate cash prizes to ensure competitiveness
- formally codify the operational process of hosting such events
- and, in general, promote Minesweeper as an international e-sport
Endorsements
Our goal is to represent and formalize the community and its (not always written) rules as they already exist, not to impose new rules or enact top-down change.
However, we do want to provide standardization. For example, we want results from different events to be comparable, and we want criteria for things like event qualifications and travel refunds not to feel (or be) arbitrary.
Therefore, we officially endorse some prominent pages/rankings/platforms:
You can find detailed explanations here.Discord
While we're still setting this platform up, we're publishing our decisions and related things on Discord.
There is also an area there to make plans for the world championship together.
Team
Board
Our board:- Thomas Kolar (chair)
- Catalina Vicol (vice chair)
Legal
Legal information (and contact data) is available here.