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Course Description

When building an esports team, you have to think about the best coaching practices to help your team improve, but you also need to take into consideration the physical location where your team will be training. Creating an esports lab is an involved process that includes logistics such as budget and equipment needs as well as knowledge of what system requirements your team needs as well as a plan to upkeep the equipment. In this course, you will get hands-on experience and work towards developing an actual plan that you can use to propose an esports lab for your organization.

Is This Course For You?

This course was designed for educators, coaches, community leaders, and esports enthusiasts with at least a high school reading and writing level and an interest in esports. To take this course, you must have foundational knowledge about esports, including an awareness of games and gaming platforms. If you don’t have foundational knowledge, we recommend taking the first two core courses in the Esports Coaching Mastery Certificate, the Fundamentals of Esports and Coaching Fundamentals.

What You’ll Learn

This course will focus on the technical logistics of creating and managing an esports lab or gaming facility. You’ll learn about hardware, software, network infrastructure, and facility-design to optimize their esports program. As part of this course, you will develop a proposal for building an esports training lab that can be implemented in their own organizations.

How You’ll Learn

This ten week course is fully online with synchronous sessions that include lectures, hands-on labs, project-based learning, and more. You won’t just be learning about building an esports lab, you’ll have opportunities to use your new knowledge and skills in activities such as creating a budget, equipment list, and systems requirements for an esports training lab and designing a physical layout for an esports training facility. Your work throughout the course will culminate in developing a complete proposal for building an actual esports training lab, including a budget, an equipment needs assessment, a facility design plan, and guidance for upkeep and maintenance.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Understand more about the hardware and software requirements for an esports training lab, including computer equipment peripherals, gaming systems, streaming services and setup, lighting and camera setup, communication devices, display setup, internet infrastructure, and connectivity.
  • Understand the importance of network infrastructure for esports and develop strategies for troubleshooting and maintenance.
  • Plan and design an effective esports training facility.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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