On March 4, 2022, Mr. Wu Wei (David WU), partner of Llinks Law Offices, and Mr. CHU Ruoyu (Roy CHU) were invited by TJ Sports to provide legal training regarding E-Sports contracts and anti-match fixing & anti-betting for the players of the League of Legends: Wild Rift (WRL). The first season of the WRL will officially kick off on March 19, 2022, marking the beginning of the inauguration of the League of Legends mobile game professional league, and the mobile E-Sports industry will continue its rapid growth in recent years in China. As the organizer of the WRL, TJ Sports has adopted a series of vocational training and intensive education to ensure the healthy and stable development of E-Sports, so that players would keep positive values and professional ethics at the very beginning of the league.
By referring to relevant cases in the field of e-sports and traditional mainstream sports events as a reference, and combining with long-term practical experience in sports law business, Mr. WU and Mr. CHU provide training to professional e-sports players with regard to basic legal knowledge in contracts, how to avoid match fixing and gambling in e-sports as well as educated the relevant legal responsibilities. The lecture provided by Mr. WU and Mr. CHU was informative and educative, which allows audiences to have a clearer understanding of illegal activities, and helped them to maintain correct values, social responsibility and sportsmanship.
At present, China's e-sports maintains rapid growth. The overall market size is reaching RMB 150 billion yuan. The growth mainly comes from the mobile e-sports game market. In fact, the growth rate of China's mobile e-sports game market in 2020 has reached 36.8%. The mobile development of e-sports games and e-sports events has promoted the explosive growth of Chinese e-sports users and the scale of the e-sports market. To this end, the WRL has focused on compliance and value training since its foundation, in order to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of the e-sports industry market and ecology. TJ Sports launched a 4-day professional and training activities, which focused on social responsibility, values, patriotic sportsmanship, basic legal knowledge and anti-counterfeiting games. WRL has also conducted assessments on all personnel, aiming to ensure that the comprehensive ability and professionalism of professional players are improved.
The Sports and Entertainment Law team of Llinks Law Offices has long been committed to providing professional services for international and domestic sports and entertainment institutions and practitioners. It is also one of the first in the industry to incorporate the knowledge of traditional sports with E-Sports, sparing no effort in supporting the rise and expansion of the E-Sports and external entertainment industries. Furthermore, Mr. David Wu was awarded as one of the Top 10 lawyers in the E-Sports industry by 2019 LEGALBAND China Lawyers. Llinks will continue to keep up with the trend of the global E-Sports industry and help create an optimized culture of E-Sports.
