Electronic Sports League (ESL), world's largest gaming organization, announced on Thursday that they would begin testing competing e-sports gamers for PEDs. With prize purses and popularity of ...

The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has moved faster than expected toward combating the abuse of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) during professional esports tournaments, and the organization has ...

SPRINGDALE -- Josselin Bartolo had not yet met all the criteria necessary to exit her school's ESL program despite being a pre-Advanced Placement English student last year. She asked her English ...

The details for the policy will be fully revealed soon. But right now, the ESL has “taken steps to move forward with drugs policing, education, and prevention among participants of [their] ...

Performance-enhancing drugs aren't just for regular sports anymore. In the world of eSports, however, it's not about bulking up physically. In the world of eSports, performance is about mental acuity ...

COLOGNE, Germany—Virtually all NFL, MLB, or NBA fans accept drug testing as a part of sports. Now that drug testing has made its debut in professional video game tournaments, it turns out that’s ...

In light of the recent Adderall scandal, the ESL has announced it will administer randomized drug tests at the ESL One Cologne event this August. The eSports body said it is taking immediate action to ...

A source close to the ESL has said the eSports body is looking into implementing a drug testing policy due to recent allegations of widespread Adderall use during tournaments. Speaking with the Daily ...

Gaming is a big market, and with games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Smite and Dota offering hundreds of thousands in prizes the competition heats up every year with each competition. As ...

ESL has announced a partnership with NADA, the Nationale Anti Doping Agentur, to develop an anti-doping policy that is "fair, feasible, and respects the privacy of the players," while still providing ...

This is a learning opportunity for the eSports community, and may serve as a test of their legitimacy as a competitive sport. The ESL have released new guidelines regarding drug use for its ...

It may seem strange to imagine that people would take drugs to be better at video games, but the problem is apparently so widespread that the Electronic Sports League (ESL) has instituted sweeping ...