The Esports Report

This is a quick episode. Our student Adam Smith, won the state championship title for eSports Madden. 13WMAZ came and conducted an interview with Adam and myself. This is that short interview story.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SmcnoaC2Hk

Link: https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/9613403-national-unified-esports-for-scholastic-leagues-fall-24

Interested in learning more about adding special Olympics esports to your school? Ashley Hodge brings you the information from playvs.

I review the coaches clinic, specifically focusing on issues from the previous season, review the schools who dominated in their esports, and briefly discuss the new game added to esports.

Ashley Hodge returns to discuss how to get started for the 2024 high school esports season as well as discussing the gaming industry dumpster fire and how that may impact high school esports programs.

TimeStamps:

Part1-High School Esports Discussion- 0:00 to 19:41

Part 2-The Collaspe of the Gaming Industry 19:42 to 56:21

A special thanks to Keith from Fiver, who created my intro and outro. You can find his work here link: https://www.fiverr.com/yourimagingguy/make-your-podcast-sound-like-a-million-dollars?source=order_page_summary_gig_link_title&funnel=86dbbd619ffc4a6faed8f5eb5d9ab907

In this episode, Ashley Hodge, discuss 5 major changes to the 2023-2024 high school esports ecosystem and how these changes will impact the space moving forward.

Important Links

GHSA Esports Clinic--https://learn.ghsa.net/ghsa-line-rules-clinic-schedule-2023-2024

Letter from new ceo--https://www.playvs.com/news/next-chapter

PlayVS CEO steps down--https://www.blackenterprise.com/delane-parnell-playvs-gaming-company-ceo-esports/

In this episode, I and two of my dissertation committee members present a introduction esports presentation at the 2022 GaETC Conference in Atlanta, GA. We discuss what esports is, how to start an esports program, how to increase student engagement with esports in the classroom, and much more.

in this episode, I review the very long GHSA PlayVS High School Esports Rulebook. If you are participating in any PlayVS/GHSA event, you need to know these rules.

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/5464981-high-school-competition-rulebook

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6437166-playvs-tiebreakers-faq

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6085215-high-school-fall-22-schedule

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6105881-high-school-nba-2k23-fall-22-schedule

In this episode, I review the rule changes to the GHSA PlayVS high school esports rulebook. This is very important if you plan on participating in the 2022 season. These are major rule changes.

Resources

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/5464981-high-school-competition-rulebook

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6437166-playvs-tiebreakers-faq

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6085215-high-school-fall-22-schedule

https://help.playvs.com/en/articles/6105881-high-school-nba-2k23-fall-22-schedule

In this episode, I go over a esport student athletic contract that I made for my esports program.

In this episode, I review PlayVS Splatoon Rulebook for the upcoming fall 2022 GHSA Esports season. Got questions or want to come on the pod? Email us at [email protected]