Universities and gaming have always had an uneasy, if not outright adversarial, relationship. Many of the early PC gamers got their start at colleges and universities because universities were one of the earliest adopters of the internet and many people’s first exposure to a personal computer was in a university’s computer lab.
This relationship has created consternation for both institutions and parents since then, with institutions concerned that university resources are not being used for educational purposes, and parents worried that their children are spending their time gaming rather than learning. Collegiate esports has been a remarkable deviation from this trend.
