College Esports QuickTake

Go Zips! The best college rocket league team comes from Akron, Ohio. Here's what you need to know about one of the leading D1 varsity esports programs.

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Cloud Gaming is poised to be the next big thing but a study from Lancaster University highlights some of the issues with streaming games from a digital cloud.

Read Nicole Carpenter's Polygon article here

Check out the actual study here

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FACEIT is one of the longstanding esports companies making a bigger focus out of college esports. Here's why FPS fans should be excited about FACEIT's move into the space.

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College esports is a crowded space with a wide variety of companies trying to be the leaders. We've covered quite a few on this show so far but EGF might be the frontrunner. Boasting partnerships with Disney and the Big East, the EGF is going straight for the top flight partner, and is focusing on the biggest schools in the country. Definitely an organizer to keep an eye on going forward as the company is active from youth esports to top colleges.

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Dr. Baro Hyun is an esports professor, consultant and author. He teaches an esports business class at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. He also is publishing a book titled "Demystifying Esports" with the goal of explaining esports and gaming to parents, bosses and everyone still unfamiliar with the industry. In this show we discuss how parents can connect with kids who game, how to understand the esports industry and his approach to teaching an esports class in a major university.

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Special Guest: Dr. Baro Hyun.

Illinois Wesleyan, a small school of under 2,000 students in Bloomington Illinois, is one of the top League of Legends teams. This year they expand into four more esports giving the school one of the largest varsity programs in any north american university.

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Many of the studies we have covered talk about some of the positive impacts of video games on developing minds, but today we look at the other end of the spectrum. A study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research found that video games can replicate new environments which help slow down cognitive decline.

This episode looks into the study, how it was conducted and what the researchers found. Here's a link to an article written about the study if you want to learn more.

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It's a blockbuster deal that will see the EGF organize competitions for the Big East's 11 member schools for the next three years. Here's what you need to know.

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The controversial governing body for college sports is absent in esports. Here's why they said they passed on esports and what the real reason likely is.

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The Esports Combine is a networking and recruiting event designed to help college esports programs find players who are good enough to compete on their teams, and potentially earn scholarships. Students get the chance to learn about the esports industry while showing off their skills in front of the recruiters in charge of filling out rosters. Esportz Network has signed on as the official network of the event and in this episode Bill Dever, the Chief Creative Officer of Harena Data, the company behind the Esports Combine joins the show to talk about the event and the college esports space at large.

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