Hey guys, it's Victoria. And I'm so happy that you had time for a TCA Minute.
Today I am doing an interview with TCA Ryan Gardner where we're going to talk about esports and what that really means.
I hope you guys enjoy, what he has to say.
Hi Ryan.
Hey Victoria. How's it going?
It's going good. I'm excited to talk a little bit about esports today.
So a lot of people would probably hear esports and all they're thinking is their kids somewhere in the room with the lights off
and they've got the hoodie on and they're just going for hours at a time.
Is that Esports?
Well, not really.
But it is the common misconception.
I mean, unless you're a big fan of eSports and watch it regularly and are really ingrained in the industry.
You know, that is the, the general public's view, but in reality Esports is a lot more than just playing games.
ESports is a multi-billion dollar industry at this point in time, I mean, it is rapidly expanding as well.
But beyond just the gaming, it's something that offers a lot of opportunity
and a lot of different paths for young adults, students in high school, even college
where they can go with their future on top of just playing games, like marketing and management of devices,
IT knowledge and things like that that can go on in the background.
These can provide a lot of opportunities for a lot of prospective students out there.
Where they might have never thought about, you know, doing something like that, until
they really got engrained in the esports world, the esports environment, whether it was the
esports club in high school, or maybe the official team in college.
Which I wish I had when I was in college because I would have loved to have been a part of
that team, but now I mean, it's pretty insane how much esports is blowing up.
You know you see things like scholarships coming out for Esports teams.
Kids that are 16, 17 years old winning millions of dollars in a tournament and the millions of viewers watching these tournaments worldwide.
I mean it's it's turned into something that's really impressive and has a lot of moving parts and a lot of different things going on in the backend.
You know, they tend to kind of play off in the shadows, but can offer a lot of opportunity,
a lot of knowledge, a lot of growth for for a lot of people.
I don't know when I hear Lenovo I think about our ThinkPad devices.
I don't necessarily think about gaming but Lenovo actually has the Legion line and this is specific to gaming.
What's the difference between something like a Legion and a ThinkPad?
That's a good question. It's a good question.
Obviously, you know, Lenovo, we are known for the ThinkPad.
The little track point, the red dot in the middle of our keyboard that's our calling card and you know you typically won't find that on a gaming device.
You know, the track point is not exactly good for those first person shooter games, or being able to fly around the screen ultra fast necessarily.
But the big difference is from a hardware perspective.
A lot of the internals are going to be pretty similar.
They're gonna have Intel or AMD processors. They're gonna have faster memory to go along with those and have solid state drive storage and things like that.
But where it really starts separating and the line becomes a little bit more blurred.
Is, it comes to graphics.
So when you're thinking about gaming and esports and our Legion devices here at Lenovo, graphics is first and foremost.
So you'll have a discrete graphics card, a dedicated GPU in a Legion device.
Whether it's a Legion laptop or Legion gaming tower and you'll have that powerful graphics card
from Nvidia where you'll be able to power the most graphically intensive games out there
and be able to hit high refresh rates and high frame rates so that you are seeing the smoothest picture and the smoothest action when you're playing these games.
Sadly, support tends to be one of the things that people think of last in most things,
but support, arguably, is one was important things you can talk about
Really any device, whether it's Legion or traditional ThinkPad or ThinkCenter
but from a Legion perspective, all of our Legion devices they're gonna become with Legion Ultimate Support.
And what that's gonna offer you is as the name implies, the ultimate support package, the ultimate safety net for your Legion device.
I know myself and my counterpart Juston, we are majors in the minor for the esports world, the Legion world here at Lenovo.
You hit the nail on the head. It does sound like it can be a little complex, a little bit more than expected.
But we promise we make it a lot easier by bringing this entire solution together and making sure all the pieces and parts are there and ready
so that you can manage these devices once you get them in-house,
keep them up to date with all the latest games, latest patches.
So that way, everything's running smoothly as it should.
Awesome. Thank you so much Ryan.
No problem. Thanks for having me.
Thank you so much Ryan for the awesome interview and the great information all around esports.
If you guys have any extra questions about esports, feel free to reach out to your TCA or check some of the links that we have in the description for more information.
I'll see you guys in the next one.