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eSports at SIUE
Posted May 28, 2020
by Curt Price
SIUE ESports (short for "Electronic Sports") officially began at SIUE in 2013, and in January of this year a brand new ESports Club & Gaming Arena opened in Bluff Hall.
The new Esports Arena is home to 12 high-end gaming computers, 2 TV’s to which students can attach their own systems, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics cards and Intel Core i5-8400 processors. The games currently installed include: League of Legends, Overwatch, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, Hearthstone, Rocket League, Dota 2 and Apex Legends. Game clients are Battlenet, Origin, Epic Games and Steam, and the voice system in use is Discord.
The University’s Esports Club, housed in Campus Recreation, has approximately 200 student members and regularly hosts events on campus.
The Esports Gaming Arena is available to all currently enrolled SIUE students from 7pm to 2am.
To request space in Bluff Hall, including the Esports Arena, contact the Bluff Hall Office at 618-650-0550 or bbouche@siue.edu.
More Info: www.siue.edu/esports