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Nevada Week | Esports On The Rise
SEASON 1: EPISODE 6 | Aired: 08/21/18
Esports. What is it? Booming nationwide, this competitive, professional world of video gaming is attracting a lot of attention, especially in our community.Viewers will hear from Milo and Yzzi Ocampo, members of the 8-bit Esports UNLV organization; Robert Rippee, director of the Hospitality Lab at the International Gaming Institute at UNLV; and Lovell Walker, executive director of Interactive Gaming Development at MGM. Our guests represent the gamer experience, the research and one of the venues where it all comes together, all in this episode of Nevada Week.
Resources
- Forbes Report: Esports to Grow Substantially and Near Billion-Dollar Revenues in 2018
- PBS NewsHour: ESports mesmerize as traditional sports worry about decline
- UNLV International Gaming Institute: Esports Lab
- Las Vegas Review Journal: Esports series to debut in Las Vegas with ‘fight-card’ matches
- UNLV News Center: Beyond the 'Gamer Girl' Label: Yzzi Ocampo
- UNLV News Center: Dreaming Big in Esports: Milo Ocampo
- UNLV News Center: Esports
- Kickstarter: LAN Vegas- A Grassroots Esports Convention
- MGM Resorts: Esports Arena at Luxor
- UNLV Harrah College of Hospitality, Facebook, Twitter
Episode Guests
- Lovell Walker, Executive Director of Interactive Gaming Development at MGM
- Yzzi Ocampo, Officer and Photographer of 8-bit Esports
- Milo Ocampo, President and Co-Founder of 8-bit Esports, Facebook, Twitter
- Robert Rippee, Director of the Hospitality Lab at the International Gaming Institute of UNLV, Facebook, Twitter