Massive events, as sportive events, involves a huge amount of spectators. Citizens that wish to attend buy a ticket that allzows them to seat in a given zone of the stadium with several features, but usually they do not buy the physical seat at the sport ground. Then, one of the duties of the organizing committees is to allocate the different localities of the enclosure to the persons that have...

Officially organized, spectator driven eSport tournaments occur within the notoriously transgressive and ruthless game EVE Online. In these tournaments spying, bribing and throwing matches is commonplace. Based on results from interviews with competitors and spectators, this paper discusses the appeal of this unique eSport and explores the way in which the relatively ‘unbounded’ approach in EVE...

Abstract Climate change will have complex consequences for the environment, society, economy and people’s health. The issue of climate has received comparatively little attention to date in fields sports science. Thus, sport-related health risks caused by are discussed summarized a conceptual model presented here first time. is associated with following increases health-related athletes particu...

Violence among spectators at sports events has become a serious problem, not only for its evident impact on safety, but also from the perspective of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. Although it could be considered a purely social problem, some solutions could come from a smart and efficient design and management of the lighting installations. Thus, the management of ...

Sport marketing researchers have generally studied two types of satisfaction at sporting events: game satisfaction and service satisfaction. One gap in the literature is studying the two types together. A model of the relationships between service quality, core product quality, game and service satisfaction, and behavioral intentions is proposed and tested. Data were collected from spectators a...

The 1920s and 1930s in Mexico were an important moment of transition for women’s sport, as interests sport spectators participants increased, giving rise to social debate. Much these debates formed part a broader discussion about the emergence ‘modern woman’ or, case Mexico, la chica moderna. By focusing on representation modern woman boxer Mexican newspapers popular media, this article analyse...

Notable philosophers of sport have rejected connections between videogames and sports throughout the past decade. This paper argues against an arbitrary identification of sporting activity with exhaustion and resistance. It reviews work in cognitive science and sociology that locates sporting potential in distributed cognition and team-based cooperation. Then it connects that work to an expande...

Massive events, as sportive events, involves a huge amount of spectators. Citizens that wish to attend buy a ticket that allows them to seat in a given zone of the stadium with several features, but usually they do not buy the physical seat at the sport ground. Then, one of the duties of the organizing committees is to allocate the different localities of the enclosure to the persons that have ...

Understanding whether an event attracted the audience’s attention and which moments were mostly enjoyable is a primary goal for sport and show business managers. OZ (Osservare l’attenZione – Observing attention) is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods project that aims at developing a technology able to automatically detect at run time spectators’ attention level, via the integration of microsoc...

BACKGROUND Spectators at several hundred golf tournaments on six continents worldwide may gain health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) during their time at the event. This study aims to investigate spectators' reasons for attending and assess spectator physical activity (PA) (measured by step count). METHODS Spectators at the Paul Lawrie Matchplay event in Scotland (August 2016) were invite...