eSports
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Gaming Culture
UGA Esports Club’s Only Female Leader Talks About Being a Woman in Competitive Gaming
When a young Hannah Suarez first stumbled upon her older sister’s gaming console at age 11, she never realized that her love for playing games on a big television screen would eventually lead to a bittersweet experience as a woman in competitive gaming. I had to branch my sub-community off…
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Gaming Culture
Competitive Comradery: Members of Esports@UGA Build Friendships On, Off Screen
Esports has broken into mainstream media and become a $1 billion industry over the past few years. Leagues have formed around individual games, like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and Overwatch, attracting six-figure investments that finance teams or individual players. This has led to the formation of smaller groups and…
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Athens-Clarke County
Esports Continue to Grow in Popularity in Georgia
Oct. 11 is the final day that local high schools can register varsity esports teams with the Georgia High School Association for the fall 2019 season. The esports preseason begins the following Monday, Oct. 14. Penny Pitts, associate director of the GHSA, said of the league, “We’re really excited about…
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Athens-Clarke County
The New Sp0rt L@ndscap3: UGA eSports, Industry Continue Growth
ATHENS — The University of Georgia esports club started with 50-60 people in 2015. Three years later, the club’s grown to more than 300 members and multiple teams for different video games. Once just thought of as a hobby, esports is evolving into a legitimate phenomenon both in the…
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In-Depth
Esports at UGA Hosts Overwatch Tryouts
Esports at UGA recently hosted tryouts for its competitive Overwatch team. The student organization is forming a new team for the popular online game. The last day of Overwatch tryouts was Sept. 27. William Rohrbach, a freshman biology student who was trying out for the team, played his first game…
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Athens-Clarke County
eSports at UGA Hosts More Than 500 Gamers at First Gaming Exposition
A UGA gaming organization called eSports at UGA hosted almost 600 gamers in The Classic Center during its first southeast gaming exposition. Last weekend, more than 500 gamers from all over the southeast gathered in The Classic Center to compete in teams during Athens Online, the first gaming exposition hosted…