I knew that school started to give out scholarships for esports. I knew it was a growing field. But I didn't know Fortnite was on the list. Well now it is. The biggest game right now can earn you a scholarship to an Ohio university if you got the skills. I so would've went for this if I was in my teens. Here I was trying to play sports :p. That was a joke I sucked at sports. Now if there was a Tetris scholarship maybe...
What I wonder is how do they decide who makes it or not. Fortnite is a game of skill but there are a lot of chance elements in it. You need to find loot which is random and you can be in the wrong place at the wrong time and die early. It happens to the top gamers so I can see it being hard to judge.
I think this is awesome, go esports. But again I am a geek so this is nothing new :p. I wonder how long it will be before we really see the number of viewers match traditional sports. I know LOL tournaments get major views. And fortnite, with its popular can push the scene even further.
What game would you be good enough for a scholarship for?
Here is the link for more info:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willburns/2018/04/25/ashland-university-wins-big-with-new-fortnite-video-game-scholarship/#53dc5ac63e5e
Im super sure I can perform well on any board game given me.
Same :)
FIFA. I’m a guru at playing it. It would make so much sense to secure a scholarship with it
Lets do a match sometime on FIFA 18
Nice!
Let’s deal
This is a nice advancement
I think I will be able to secure a scholarship in the game of scrabble.
Wow this is good, I guess time has really changed.
Well I am good in basketball, I play well in NBA
Cool! Finally the world seems to come up with some useful ideas.a few years ago I would have said FIFA, but I got a bit out of shape here..
Haha, who knows? FIFA as an esports event might lead to empty real stadiums one day! Why should we watch those boring real games when the virtual world brings so much more excitement?
This should really come to Estonia.
And they should make one about CS:GO
Ez scolarship :D
Unreal Tournament. I would play that into the wee hours of the morning until blood was coming out of my eyes. Was very good at it too. Thought I read recently that there were about 50 colleges/universities that offer a similar program. Insane.
Dammit this is happening too long after I was in my gaming prime! To think that all of the killing and ganking and griefing over the years could have been transferred into monetary gain.....instead of just weight.
Now, I don't have too much time for games, sight is going and couldn't be arsed to go back to school.
Ah well at least the geek is inheriting the earth a little more nowadays.
Thank you very much for giving such a nice tips
Well they may keep there government programming tool , not for me .
Even as i ones where a moderately good HL2 deatmatch FFA player ;-)
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Lol. I'm not saying Fornite is a no skill game, there's alot of skill involved, but there's an element of luck involved in Fortnite. I didn't realise it was an eSport either. :) the more you know!