{"id":15703,"date":"2017-09-19T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15703"},"modified":"2017-09-18T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T02:37:48","slug":"colleges-are-offering-scholarships-to-professional-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/colleges-are-offering-scholarships-to-professional-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges Are Offering Scholarships To Professional Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/091917_0235_CollegesAre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colleges are paying attention to esports wrote Collin Binkley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Esports is big business \u2013 the biggest tournament in the world has a $20 million prize pool.<\/li>\n<li>Colleges are taking notice. They&#8217;re offering scholarships to gaming athletes who can spread the college&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li>Specialized coaches and other support staff help to ensure gamers reach their full potential.<\/li>\n<li>The University of California, Irvine, even drummed up $250,000 for an eSports arena.<\/li>\n<li>The NCAA \u2013 a nonprofit that works with college sporting programs \u2013 has taken note and is considering getting involved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d10b7868410a47a287440936db6b16ec\/Video-game-players-get-varsity-treatment-at-more-US-colleges?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=APEastRegion\">AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges are paying attention to esports wrote Collin Binkley: Esports is big business \u2013 the biggest tournament in the world has a $20 million prize pool. Colleges are taking notice. They&#8217;re offering scholarships to gaming athletes who can spread the college&#8217;s name. Specialized coaches and other support staff help to ensure gamers reach their full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/091917_0235_CollegesAre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15705,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions\/15705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}