From a partnership of three countries to a consortium of 54.

2015

• The São Paulo state federation is founded.
• A state recognition bill for Esports is drafted.
• Daniel Cossi becomes CEO of World Cyber Arena (WCA), a role he holds until 2019.

Lesson: a sport gains legal standing at home first. A state federation and a recognition bill come before any international body.

2016

• WESCO is founded.
• CBDEL is founded and PAMESCO is co-founded in the same year.
• Partnership with the Chinese University Esports League (CUEL), which opens university Esports in China.
• WESCO endorses World Cyber Arena (WCA) and takes part in its global event every year from 2016 to 2019.
• WCA runs national contests that feed regional and continental stages; the continental champions meet in a nine-day final in China, in an Olympic-style movement. Daniel Cossi is WCA's CEO from 2015 to 2019.

Lesson: federations only scale when each level has its own body: state, national, continental and global. Universities supply the athletes.

2017

• Landmark partnership with CECC, WESCO's largest partner.
• The WESCO office sits inside the CECC headquarters in Beijing to this day.

Lesson: a long partnership with a strong local institution gives a global body a real address, a legal footing and trust.

2018

• First WESCO Esports Championship and Summit, in Shijiazhuang, China. It returns every year through 2023.
• WESCO endorses the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires and helps in the operation, working with the International Olympic Committee.
• It is the first Esports entity to do so.

Lesson: a championship that returns every year becomes an institution. Repetition is what builds trust. An Olympic body only recognizes a partner that already has rules and a track record.

2019

• Africa Advisory Board appointed.
• Launch of Changing the People, Changing the World and Ambassadors of Esports. Football captain Cafu becomes a WESCO Esports Ambassador.
• WESCO sanctions the Esports Regulatory & Expo Congress in Catalonia, Spain, on regulation, legislation and legitimacy, and its guests take part.
• Partnership with Euncet Business School for the first master's degree in esports business in the world.
• Partnership with an international federation for women's protection in sport starts the women's program.
• Last WCA edition with WESCO as endorser.

Lesson: advisors on the ground and public figures open doors that a company alone cannot open.

2020

• Partnership with Enter Africa, a creative network of young people.
• It opens digital sports opportunities in 15 African countries.
• Access to digital sports becomes a youth policy, reaching people through networks they already use.

Lesson: access to digital sports is also a youth policy: it reaches people through networks they already use.

2023

• ACES, the African Confederation of Electronic Sports, is founded in Casablanca.
• It unites 41 countries, all of them WESCO members, without exception.
• WESCO and GES meet in Barcelona.
• WESCO is present at the AESF Grand Meeting during the Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Lesson: a continental confederation is built country by country, with a founding act and a seat.

2024

• Poly Group and WESCO partner on PEGT, a national league in China.

Lesson: a league needs a partner with venues and reach. PEGT pairs WESCO's governance with Poly Events' scale.

2025

• PAMESCO elects Daniel Cossi as president.

Lesson: leadership of a continental body is earned by results and elected by peers.

2026

• A council of Global Vice Presidents leads WESCO in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.

Lesson: a global body shares power by region, so each culture is led by someone from it.