{"id":106423,"date":"2019-11-15T16:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=106423"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T02:43:42","slug":"uh-esports-collegiate-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/15\/uh-esports-collegiate-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> esports team emerges as frontrunner in first collegiate tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_94599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94599\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-css-esports.jpg\" alt=\"video games\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-css-esports.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-css-esports-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-css-esports-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participating in the esports scene on the M\u0101noa campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the rising popularity of esports, colleges and universities nationwide are picking up on the esports club trend where gamers not only compete against each other, but  against other college teams as well. The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa team is gaining recognition in the largest collegiate league.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the charge in the arena of esports at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is <strong>Nyle Sky Kauweloa<\/strong>, a graduate assistant at the <a href=\"https:\/\/communications.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Communications<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>. Kauweloa, along with <strong>Kevin Nguyen<\/strong>, a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa communications graduate, who now works full time as <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s esports program assistant. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> esports runs 5 teams across 2 games which are <em>Overwatch<\/em> and <em>League<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> collegiate esports team, which is competing in the 2019 <em>League of Legends<\/em> Collegiate Starleague (<abbr>CSL<\/abbr>) tournament, recently received honorable mention in the <abbr>CSL<\/abbr> rankings and was <a href=\"https:\/\/cstarleague.com\/lol\/news_articles\/1069?fbclid=IwAR2F6lkitmznHJ2WEnsBZs_NxwgzLQAXyotZ5ZnofJr-I0oPCJJBf-Oc7Mc\">noted as one of four teams in the Southwest region that remains undefeated after three weeks of regular season play<\/a>. The other teams are from the University of California, Irvine (<abbr title=\"University of California Irvine\">UCI<\/abbr>), University of New Mexico and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/14\/esports-as-a-career\/\">Learn more about the growth of esports at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s really amazing given that this is our first time competing\u2014ever in an organized tournament, and we are mentioned along with <abbr>UCI<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said Kauweloa.<\/p>\n<p>Kauweloa also teaches a course, Esports and Society, the first of its kind at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.  The course covers the rising popularity and significance of the growing esports industry.<\/p>\n<p>The University of New Mexico and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> will go head-to-head on January 18, 2020, competing in the next round of the tournament. From there, the top teams from each division will find out on February 8, 2020, who they will move on to play on the bracket stage. <a href=\"https:\/\/cstarleague.com\/lol\/teams\/10565\">The schedule can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested students can follow the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uhesports\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uhesport\">Twitter<\/a>, or email <a href=\"mailto:uh.esports@hawaii.edu\">uh.esports@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>More on Collegiate Starleague<\/h2>\n<p>Collegiate Starleague is the world\u2019s first collegiate gaming organization. The league has grown to more than 1,800 aggregate universities and 55,000 cumulative active players.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>CSL<\/abbr> runs leagues across multiple titles and platforms and has awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships to deserving college gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team was also noted as one of four teams in the Southwest region that remains undefeated after three weeks of regular season play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[301,1405,741,660,9],"class_list":["post-106423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-esports","tag-school-of-communications","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106464,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106423\/revisions\/106464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}