There was one leading figure in the development of the NACE: Michael Brooks, the Executive Director of NACE. Not only does he oversee the management of the organization and the college scholarships, he is also responsible for planning collegiate Esports programs with the cooperation of institutions nationwide. The reason we should keep our eyes on the NACE is simple: Brookes is a Director of Strategic Partnerships at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). With the experience he has gained from the NAIA, he has developed a keen insight that will help guide the NACE towards a bright future.
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Sports and marketing have an immense influence over each other - when a star player rises, companies backing sports organizations spend so much money in order to get their hands on those star players.
Taewon Yun, the General Manager for Global Publishing at Super Evil Megacorp, will be a speaker at the first Inven Global Esports Conference (IGEC). He has had a notable career in the gaming industry.
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A social streaming platform, Twitch, looked back at the year and revealed their global data for 2017.On the 7th, according to the revealed data, Twitch had a total of 355 billion minutes watched. Twit
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NVIDIA has revealed its brand new VGA, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, at the GDC 2017. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and president at NVIDIA, explained at the conference that “ theGTX 1080 Ti is 35% fast
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Blizzard announced that For Azeroth!, a limited time Heroes of the Storm event that allows many players to enjoy various heroes from the Warcraft universe, will begin February 14th. The event will las
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