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The New York eSports Summit

The New York eSports Summit brings representatives from major competitive games to the same table for one night only. What do these games have in common? What success and challenges do they share? What do we all want for the future of eSports to look like and how can we make that future happen?

The NYU Game Center, in partnership with Red Bull in anticipation of the 2013 Red Bull Battlegrounds, are excited to welcome Sean ‘Day9′ Plott from Starcraft, Travis “SotLTravis” Gafford representing League of Legends, Ryan ‘Gootecks’ Gutierrez of Street Fighter, and Rod “Slasher” Breslau of Gamespot to New York City to discuss this vibrant and growing sector of the games industry and culture.

We invite you to join us and hear these leaders in eSports share their opinions and we welcome you to come with your questions. This event is free and open to the public.

Then on Saturday, November 23, see high level eSports competition at it’s best in as eight of the top StarCraft players in the world fight it out at the 2013 Redbull Battlegrounds.

And we’re going all out on eSports at the Game Center the whole week!

Tuesday, November 19, 7pm, 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor- Michael Brough The designer of some of today’s most innovative and genre defining local multiplayer games, Michael Brough, will be here to talk about his approaches and challenges to designing Glitch Tank, SMESPORT, and local multiplayer games in general. After the talk, stick around for a Glitch Tank and SMESPORT mini tournament! RSVP for Michael Brough’s talk here.

The NYU Game Center has partnered with the EVO Tournament to create a scholarship to study game design at New York University. If you have a passion for fighting games and want to join the next generation of great game designers we welcome you apply for EVO scholarship and create the future of fighting games in the Fall 2014 class at the Game Center.

The scholarship will be funded by the proceeds from the HD stream at EVO, so every person who upgrades to HD will be directly funding a scholarship for someone in the fighting game community.

To receive the scholarship, prospective students will apply to the MFA program when our applications open in the Fall and complete supplemental application material about their involvement in the fighting game community. We’re also considering funding undergraduate studies with the EVO scholarship. Prospective undergraduate students should write to [email protected] to express their interest in receiving the EVO scholarship for their undergraduate studies.