TY - JOUR AU - Schöber, Timo AU - Stadtmann, Georg PY - 2022/07/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The dark side of e-sports – An analysis of cheating, doping & match-fixing activities and their countermeasures JF - International Journal of Esports JA - IJE VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Original Research Article DO - UR - https://www.ijesports.org/article/98/html SP - AB - <p>We analyze the prohibited behavior of esports teams in terms of cheating, doping, and match-fixing. In the theoretical part, we use a game theoretic model which highlights the incentive to cheat and potential countermeasures. Definitions are given for the terms cheating, doping and match-fixing, as well as organizations that impose sanctions against them, measures against the use of illegal aids, and concrete sanction with illustrated examples.</p> ER -