{"id":4542,"date":"2020-10-12T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:14:26","slug":"concordia-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4542","title":{"rendered":"Concordia Esports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Cassidy Stephenson<\/span><\/p>\n

Concordia\u2019s Gamer\u2019s Alliance has been an official club since its creation in 2013. In addition to CUC having a casual gaming club, CUC also has a competitive Esports Club, which has been in <\/span>development for the past year. Game Art is a newly approved major at CUC and Scott Cenkar is the Visiting Assistant Professor for the program. Cenkar stated that \u201cConcordia University Chicago has expressed a commitment to the growing Esports team and eventually expanding it to include an arena.\u201d\u00a0 The Esports club has approximately 20 members and was in the process of expanding into a team before COVID hit. They have not been able to meet in person since the call to move courses online during the Spring semester. They currently have a Discord server in order to practice remotely playing games like Overwatch, League of Legends, Valorant, Modern Warfare, and Rocket League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cenkar hopes to use the space in the basement of Krauss for practice and competitions. Simon Hatcher, Esports Club member, stated that the space is \u201cequipped with around 10 high-end computers.\u201d The computers are programmed with top of the line hardware and software to be able to run games efficiently. The club members are currently trying to coordinate a plan to unlock the space to be able to utilize it but are restricted because of COVID guidelines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is still up in the air if the Concordia Esports will be able to meet in person this semester due to restrictions on campus in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have an interest in participating in Concordia\u2019s Esports Club, please email <\/span>Scott.Cenkar@cuchicago.edu<\/span><\/a> for more information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-concordia-news","category-uncategorized","tag-esports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}