Esports Tournament We bring you the detailps of an Esports event hosted by the London Knights and We Got Game! at Budweiser Gardens in November.

The rise of eSports in the age of COVID-19 Mustangs men's soccer defender Adesina Gbadebo captured an eSports tournament victory at a "Campus versus Campus" EA Sports FIFA 20 event, taking home the prize even as the coronavirus pandemic has put most sports on hold. His team was awarded a $250 prize for his victory on May 8. The tournament was hosted by We Got Game, an eSports company that has been running similar events for almost 13 years. According to the owner and president of the company, Dave Miller, 36 students across Ontario registered for the tournament. Miller explained that colleges and universities…

ESPORTS CONTINUES TO EXPAND THROUGH THE NIAGARA REGION Niagara-on-the-Lake hosted the first We Got Game! intramural eSports tournament of the semester Feb. 7. This event is only the beginning for a new age of gaming-related sports tournaments that We Got Game! plans on building toward. This is not the first time NOTL has held a We Got Game! tournament for the students, but due to how well their previous event went, the organization levied off of their success to push eSports tournaments to other schools. “We feel that eSports is going to be popular and something relatively affordable so we’d like to make sure…

NEW ESPORTS TOURNAMENT EXCITES GAMERS The score is 60-60 and the clock is running down. An NBA 2K19 game between computer programming student Moussab Abdillahi and exchange student Anders Jaurnow from Denmark is raging tensely on a PS4 console. A group of about 15 students gather around the monitors. Eyes are drawn to the screen to see which side will prevail. The two competitors have brought the game into the second overtime period. A single shot can decide the final result. When one is missed, the “aws” and “oos” are repeated around the gathering. Jaurnow grabs his head in frustration; Abdillahi also missed some shots.…