GETCA 2025

Esports have been a growing phenomenon for decades, but they have mostly stayed as a separate entity from academics. With the rise of competitive gaming taking the global stage and streaming/video content becoming the new age entertainment for youth, esports have begun emerging at the local school level. We are two teachers from Fort McMurray who worked together to build gaming programs in our schools and ultimately helped establish a scholastic esports league for our city. We will talk about how the grade 7-12 classes look, and how we emulated the traditional sports model to structure a three game (seasons), year-long esports league in Fort McMurray, along with all of the challenges and successes of making that happen.