Just like British eSports Association, World eSports Association or WESA has been formed in 2016 and some of the world's biggest eSports organizations are members of this association. However, of the founders of this association such as FaZe Clan has stepped out because they were afraid that this association will limit the number of tournaments in which a certain team can participate.
The main goal of this association is to determine rules and regulations and to make them standardized in order for the entire industry to be able to apply them. WESA has caused a lot of controversies in a short period since it was established but it seems that WESA is currently the most powerful eSports association in the entire world.
One of the first eSports association that was established was International e-Sports Federation whose headquarters are in Seoul, South Korea. The main goal of this association is to work on eSports being legitimately recognized as a sport and to promote eSports industry not only in South Korea but also in the rest of the world. International e-Sports Federation has been established in 2008 and since then they have been working on increasing the number of member countries, training referees that would be working on different eSports events.
Besides that, this association has also been working on creating regulations that would create an international standard for the entire eSports industry as well as on the organization of international eSports world championship.
British eSports Association has been established in 2016 by Chester King. Currently, this Association is Britain's national body for eSports and professional video gaming. This Association has been funding the grassroots eSports as well as providing funds. Besides that, this association has also been working on promoting eSports, establishing good practice in eSports industry, and providing advice for those who are about to venture into the eSports industry.
Interestingly, the British eSports Association has managed to secure the government support in their actions which is also one of the steps towards eSports becoming officially recognized as a sport.
International eGames committee is an eSports association whose primary task is the organization of eGames, one of the biggest eSports events in the world. This Committee is completely independent association as it has nothing to do with the International Olympic Committee though it seems that the idea behind the establishing this organization was taken from IOC and the Olympic Games. The first eGames were held last year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the host of this year's eGames has not been revealed yet.