33 ESPORTS FOCUS University Esports
In March, esports was called off at Maryville when Covid-19 shut down the university. Two months later, Overwatch continued its tournament schedule, but participants were playing remotely. In the case of Maryville’s team, that meant team members, all of whom had returned home, were playing from as far afield as Scotland and Sweden. Ousley was determined to put together some content, despite the conditions. “My job was to find out how to get content out regularly that I could do all from home while sitting in with them on Discord calls. I recorded all the communications during practice and turned that into straight to Twitter or YouTube videos, highlighting comms or funny moments,” he explains. “For our League of Legends team, we had one of the shoutcasters from the
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