Esports Interest Meeting and Tryouts set for Fall 2024 Season

RALEIGH, NC - Wake Tech Esports is hosting interest meetings, open houses, and tryouts for the Fall 2024 season for prospective students interested in learning more about the program. In addition to the game titles below, more games could be added depending on interest.

• Open House and Interest Meeting
  • Tuesday, July 30 (5:30-7pm)
  • Tuesday, August 6 (5:30-7pm)
    
    
• Tryout Information/Schedule
  • Rocket League | Monday, August 12 (6pm)
  • Valorant | Tuesday, August 13 (6pm)
  • League of Legends | Wednesday, August 14 (6pm)
  • Rocket League | Monday, August 19 (6pm)
  • Valorant | Tuesday, August 20 (6pm)
  • League of Legends | Wednesday, August 21 (6pm)

The interest meetings and open houses will be an opportunity for any student planning to attend Wake Tech during the 2024-25 academic year to meet with Esports Director Patrick McNair and see Wake Tech's Esports competition venue.

Wake Tech Esports offers opportunities for students to compete on a varsity level team, open intramural competition, and other support roles.

ELIGIBLITY REQUIREMENTS:
To play on the varsity level teams students must be enrolled full time in the Fall 2024 semester (12 or more hours) and have a 2.0 GPA or higher.  If new participant, cumulative GPA requirements are not required. 

LOCATION:
The Wake Tech Esports Arena on the Southern Wake Tech Campus Building N (Room 117).  The Southern Wake Tech Campus is located at 9101 Fayetteville Road in Raleigh.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For more information, please contact Esports Director Patrick McNair (pwmcnair@waketech.edu). If you can't make the interest meeting please also connect with Esports Director McNair.

DISCORD:
https://discord.gg/ngZxmtjyg7

INFORMATION ON WAKE TECH ESPORTS
Wake Tech is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE). The esports program was established in Spring 2021. That spring season, the Eagles won the NJCAAE championship in Overwatch. In all, Wake Tech reached the NJCAAE championship game in four different seasons with runners-up titles in Overwatch (Fall 2021), Rocket League (Spring 2022), and Valorant (Spring 2022). The Eagles captured the Fall 2022 NJCAAE Rocket League League Open Division National Championship. In addition, the League of Legends team won the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 NJCAAE Premier Division (Tier 1) National Championship.

Wake Tech has a primary esports competition and practice venue located at the Southern Wake Campus in Raleigh featuring 14 Lenovo T730 with NVIDIA RTX 2080 Graphics. 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900K with vPro. 

As a compliment to the Esports program, Wake Tech has a Simulation and Game Development (SGD) academic program providing students with a broad background in the simulation and video game industry. The curriculum includes practical applications in creative arts visual arts, audio/video technology, modeling, animation, design, programming, and management.

Primary Esports Arena Information:
https://www.waketechsports.com/sports/Esports/2019-20/files/Esports