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UNLV’s Potential Future In eSports

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UNLV is constantly changing, and with new innovative changes arriving in the upcoming semesters, there’s no doubt that technology is going to play a major role in college classrooms. When technology has such major impact on education, can we say the same for the sports scene?

eSports is one of the newest trends in major league sports around the world, seeing a popular rise in recent years and swiftly gaining more than 200 million viewers since 2016. While the idea sounds questionable to some, multiple media outlets, including ESPN and Yahoo, have taken advantage of eSports to cover tournaments, which seem to be the next big thing.