Why Esports?
Esports is one of the fastest-growing sport in the world today. While traditional sports focus on the physicality of the athlete, it has always been the personal growth of the athlete that has the most value. Esports is no different. Competition builds communication, social-emotional, and problem-solving skills which are key characteristics for success.
What Games Does FUeL Offer
Fresno Unified eSports League’s mission is to create college and career-ready graduates. We created an esports pathway from elementary through high school with an opportunity to pursue careers in more than just gaming. Fresno Unified Minecraft Esports piloted with success its first season in Spring 2021. Continuing into our 2021-2022 school year our goal is to roll out “League of Literacy” in grades 1st-6th. Our Middle Schools will launch “Minecraft PvP – Capture the Flag” and Rocket League in grades 7th-8th are on the horizon. Our High Schools will focus on “League of Legends” and “Rocket League” and continue to instill 21st Century skills that will prepare them for college and careers that are in high demand.
Fresno Unified Launches Into Esports with Rocket League
Now that Fresno Unified has officially launched into the world of esports, students can represent their high schools in competitive video gaming. “This is the best thing that has ever happened to me at school,” Superintendent Bob Nelson quoted one student saying. Nelson announced the news at Fresno Unified’s State of Education Luncheon last week. … Continue reading
What is Minecraft Esports?
Unleash students’ creativity in ready-made immersive Minecraft worlds designed to support learning through team build battles, coding challenges, and role-based strategy games. Each of these worlds is designed to inspire students in pirate coves, fantasy gardens, and mysterious, magical libraries, to encourage collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills.
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What is Rocket League?
Rocket League is a car-meets-soccer-meets-Indy Car game. The game’s playership is growing each year with more than 25 million players worldwide. Rocket League requires mental fortitude as the games are played in best out of 3 sets. It also requires quick reactions, but most importantly it requires teamwork and communication. Rocket League is the perfect blend of traditional sports with the flair, excitement, and uniqueness that video games bring. This formula allows for all audiences unfamiliar with the game to engage in the level of excitement that its competitors express.
What is League of Legends
League of Legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena also known as MOBA. It is a competitive game that blends strategy and frenetic pace of a real-time strategy game with the style, story, and focus on a character of a role-playing game.
The basic idea is that two teams of characters called champions, each with a unique ability that adds to the strategy aspect, compete against each other to control the map. To claim victory a team must destroy the enemy defenses until they make their way to the enemy base and destroy all the structures within the enemy base.
“This competition is not affiliated with or sponsored by Riot Games, Inc. or League of Legends Esports.”
Contact US
Fresno Unified Student Engagements is extremely excited for the opportunity to offer students this innovative and exciting esports competition league. For more information on this exciting opportunity:
Contact Joe Di Filippo or Brett Mar via email at fuel@fresnounified.org.