After the Global Poker League showed the poker world that they are deadly serious about turning poker into an entertaining sport, Lee Davy wonders if this means the eventual introduction of drugs and alcohol testing.

Kory “SEMPHIS Friesen is a top notch professional Counter Strike: Global Offensive player. This summer, during an interview, he admitted that both him and his teammates at the time, Cloud9, used Adderall whilst competing for their share of $250,000 in prize money.

The tournament in question was Katowice 2015 and the organizers, Electronic Sports League (ESL), were not very happy to say the least. Several weeks later and the ESL linked arms with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to introduce Olympic standards random drugs and alcohol testing.

The ESL released a statement that read: “As the world’s largest and oldest eSports organization, ESL has an ongoing commitment to safeguarding both the integrity of our competitions and that of eSports as a whole.”