hi I'm Jack and I'm I'm the head of esports at the University of Warwick I actually used
to coach athletics and I was helping teach them.
I got up to competing at regional/ national level for athletics but im not a morning person
so I kind of stopped and as a teenager when I came to university I fell in love with it
with the video games community here actually founded the ESports Club as a student I pushed
out in these for some time we need one of these so many talented students that need
supporting this could be a great opportunity for local area we can actually change peoples
lives with video game but actually kind of thing so it's kind of persuading uni student
graduated and about six months later clare got in touch with me and was like we're thinking
about developing this one way I really like to describe it is if you think of every single
job that's involved in a single football match those jobs exist in Esports so you go up to
a football match and someone is scanning your ticket as referees as administrators you've
got ball boys you've got coaches you've got psychologist you ve got nutritionist you've
got physios honestly have a whole coaching staff to make sure team works properly not
just the competitive element of Esports jobs these all exist in sports he didn't take one
step back from now in order for these teams to actually have a livelihood be worth paying
it needs to be broadcasted needs to be streamed across the world needs have people who understand
how that technology works you need to be able to market all of these events of people attending
up to need expert marketers we need people who understand the business for running the
finance and then if you've got this massive industry which is a billion dollar industry
globally it means big wages coming io these players which means you've got that look at
contracts people with law experience you understand these parts you then need agents and scouts
cause we see million dollar transfers of people moving across from European teams to American
teams that need to be battered by an agent so we have all of these jobs bring up then
we need to make sure that all of the data that you're running a secured gap data analysts
are processing all of these things and the people networking this and then as a result
that you don't have conference is being run events the competitions you have community
events unit then and then to get into that industry needs teaching so you're going to
need eatables teachers you're gonna need esports supporting staff in an academic and the situation
in a proffessional situation so every job you can imagine and useful to kind of encompasses
that this facility has been here for six months industry leading where we are supporting students
and the community to improve in their responsibility and this is you know I say the community because
this is open to the public at all times and it's going to be used exclusively for the
delivery of and this project will work with Warwickshire County Council moving forward
and during the daytime which is being amazing opportunity to use 24 of the best computers
in Europe right now I know it's really hard to get your hands on the tech that's inside
these computers what we've got here is taking our facilities to enable people to play games
but also to land digital skills to do graphic society a really high level today video editing
and running event in this one spot that allows you to to the broadcasting filming playing
all once in one holistic space so and that's where we are and that's what he's put centre
it if you took part or programme or you just want a space to be up to meet like minded
people and talk about struggles in the industry that exists as well an we're trying to facilitate
that here at Warwick so we pride ourselves on the ability to include everybody who wants
to have a go so that's what here we are and hopefully that helps people feel like they
can get involved going forward