Illinois college offering scholarships to League of Legends players

Mike Suszek:

Robert Morris University in Chicago put out a call recruiting League of Legends players to its first varsity eSports team earlier this month. According to Riot Games, RMU will become the first university to offer a competitive team at the varsity level, and will offer scholarships to players “of up to 50 percent tuition and 50 percent room and board.”

As John Gruber wrote back in May, the growing interest in competitive gaming spectatorship is not as crazy as it seems.

via Ars Technica

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