China offers an e-course

Curious news that we have found today, the Lanxiang Technical School of China has launched an e-Sports course with a duration of three years. Electronic sports are becoming increasingly popular so it would be surprising if this trend were to expand in the future.

China launches an e-Sports course

Half of the first year of this e-Sports course is focused on mastering games like Overwatch, Counter-Strike, BattleUnknown's Battlegrounds and League of Legends, the second half is intended for the theory of learning to be successful. year, students are divided in such a way that the best focus their efforts on becoming professional players, while all the others become event organizers, coaches, presenters and promoters of e-Sports.

The price of each year of the e-Sports course is approximately 13, 000 yuan ($ 2, 708), luckily for the best players, they will not have to pay anything from the second year.

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This is not the first initiative of the educational sector in relation to e-Sports, since in 2016 UC Irvine launched a scholarship program for League of Legends, although they did not offer a real course. The universities and academies of Russia, Finland and France also offer eSport courses similar to that of China and the University of Stafford in Great Britain is expected to launch its own eSports degree in September 2018.

It is estimated that the eSport sector will generate $ 905 million of income worldwide in 2018, in China alone there are 260 million people who play or watch competitions annually so it is easy to understand the great importance it is acquiring within the industry.

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