Applying lessons from traditional Icelandic sport, Iceland’s unique, successful, and financially viable grassroots esports infrastructure has spawned ambitious aspirations. One of which is to become a top five esports nation by 2025.
Iceland, a remote volcanic rock with a population of just 350,000, might have appeared an unlikely choice for League of Legends’s Mid-Season Invitational and VALORANT’s VCT Stage 2 Masters in May. However, Europe’s most sparsely populated country had combatted well against Covid-19 and thus came to the rescue of global fans thirsting for a glimpse of in-person action.