THE PROCESS OF ELECTRONIC SPORT RECOGNITION IN INTERNATIONAL SCALE

The phenomenon of the booming of gaming competition across the worldissurprising. Video game that usually considered only as a form of entertainment andused to be largely seen as wasteful activity now become part of daily activity. Manystates such as USA, Malaysia, South Korea and Germany already accepted the videogame as a form of competition and allowed the professional athlete to enter thecompetition by giving visa to joining the competition.The organized video gamecompetition, also known as Electronic Sport, able to rise from an entertainment andameans to pass the time into an International Competition that recognized, supportedandjoined by many state with their respective eSport Athlete. This paper will try to seek out the data and explain the process of the recognitionitself. The phenomenon will be explained by using the acceptence of the videogameitself, in short the norm of video game as competition. The explanation will be dividedinto 3 parts, which foolowed the concept of Life Cycle of an International Norm. Thefirst part explained the process of norm emergence. Statrted by explaining the historyand giving an example of the struggle to extablish the game competition. The secondpart is a part where the norm of gaming as a competition become institutionalized, thestage of norm cascade. Explained the establishment of eSport organization in national and international scale. And the last is the process of internalization where the eSport already accepted as a profession and play in video game is no longer to be seennegatively, but as normal activity