{"id":19235,"date":"2018-10-05T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/?p=19235"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:03:01","slug":"ohio-state-university-establishes-esports-program-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/10\/ohio-state-university-establishes-esports-program-research","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State University establishes esports program & research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>The Ohio State University<\/strong> in Columbus, Ohio announced it will be establishing the “most comprehensive esports program to date” within the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The university is planning on building an arena to house its esports teams which will compete in the <strong>Electronic Gaming Federation<\/strong> collegiate league, which runs similar to that of leagues like the <strong>AVGL<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Deborah M. Grzybowski, Co-Director of Game Studies<\/strong> and <strong>Associate Professor<\/strong> said of the arena:\u00a0 \u201cIt will include over 80 seats with computer, console and virtual reality systems, as well as a broadcast booth for students interested in shoutcasting.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">A curriculum for undergraduate studies will also be added to offer students diverse career opportunities like coaching, marketing and game development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Aside from supporting competitors and students interesting in pursuing esports as a career, researchers at OSU’s <strong>Wexner Medical Center<\/strong> will study the relationships between the brain, bodies and behaviours of esports athletes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>James Onate, Co-director of the Sports Medicine Movement Analysis and Performance Program<\/strong> at\u00a0Ohio State Wexner Medical Center said:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">\u201cOhio State is known for high-performance athletics, and esports plays to this strength. The methods are the same as any other sport \u2013 the skills are just different. We have a lot to learn from studying esports athletes, from their exceptional reaction times and rapid decision-making abilities to their physical attributes and health behaviours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19236\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19236 \" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting.jpg 2595w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-696x497.jpg 696w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-1068x763.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5-eegfitting-588x420.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Ohio State University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The hope for these studies will be to help players sustain mental and physical wellness while competing at a top tier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Morley Stone, Senior Vice President for Research at Ohio State, said:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">\u201cOhio State is already ahead of the curve in studying the connection between machine learning and human learning. This provides us with a springboard to delve deeper into the understanding of human performance in esports.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\"><b>Esports Insider says: Colleges left and right are popping up with not only <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/11\/florida-southern-college-joins-nace-launches-esports-program\/\">varsity-supported teams<\/a>, but an educational curriculum. OSU is taking it a step further with extensive research into how being an esports athlete effects your body. This is an approach very different from that of any other institution and the results from this could not only help OSU’s esports athletes but all collegiate and professional players.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[maxbutton id=”4″ ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio announced it will be establishing the “most comprehensive esports program to date” within the institution. 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