Press Release 105/2017

Playing Computer Games at Competition Level

E-Sports Is Gaining Ground and Attracts Large Audiences – KIT Is the Only German University Sup-porting High-performance Video Gaming in an Official Sports Club
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E-Sportler des KIT-SC beim Training. (Foto: Tanja Meißner, KIT)

E-sports: This is gaming at competition level. Worldwide, e-sports events attract large audiences. Instead of pale computer nerds playing computer games at night and living on potato crisps and soft drinks, well-paid professionals compete in the multi-player mode of popular video games. In Germany, e-athletes are gaining increasing recognition. KIT SC, the sports club of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, now has an e-sports division, while the students team has been existing for a longer time already. About a hundred students train regularly, the best twenty have joined the club.

 

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For training times, upcoming events, and contacts, click: www.esuka.de (in German only).

 

More information:


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_uH0p0v1MdWQjLedGcCSw


https://www.twitch.tv/esports_united_karlsruhe

 

mex, 25.07.2017
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Christian Könemann
Chief Press Officer
Phone: +49 721 608-41190
Fax: +49 721 608-43658
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Dr. Felix Mescoli
Press Officer
Phone: +49 721 608 41171
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