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2020 Summer Community Programming! (In Progress)

By June 9, 2020June 24th, 2020Event Coverage, Spotlights, Student Programming4 min read

Programming Overview

*DOCUMENT UPDATED: June 16, 2020 @ 1130PM*

Just because we’re in summer sessions doesn’t mean we aren’t still active! Below is a preview and guide to our summer calendar of events. We are looking to provide programming for the resources we have in our ranks and community. If there is something you’d like to see don’t hesitate to join our Discord and message Moog, Jasmine, or Callie to see if we can spin something up to cater to your audience! Gamers are diverse and dynamic and so our programming needs to be that way too.

Standard Programming

WHAT: Movie Night
TYPE: Social Mixer – Casual
WHEN: Wednesdays (June 17, July 15, Aug 12)
TIME: 7PM CST
HOW: Join our Discord (No membership required). Voting for movies happens in Discord during the ramp-up to each movie night.
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: (Attendance door prizing/raffles) Come and participate and get a chance to win a summer campaign t-shirt or giveaways just for being present.

WHAT: Party Games Night
TYPE: Social Mixer – Casual
WHEN: Wednesdays (July 1, July 29)
TIME: 7PM CST
HOW: Join our Discord (No membership required). Games played to be announced the weekend before. (Examples: Jackbox, digital card games, digital board games, etc)
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: (Attendance door prizing/raffles) Come and participate and get a chance to win a summer campaign t-shirt or giveaways just for being present.

WHAT: Dungeon and Dragons Night – PENDING
TYPE: Tabletop Social – Casual/Friendly
WHEN: (Starting TBD)
TIME: 7PM CST
HOW: Join our Discord (No membership required). Gameplay is come and go as you please. Casual energy, custom games, fun modifiers.
WHO: Open to beginners and veterans alike. Come on down to join a DND campaign with your peers using the free online DND client roll20.
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: (Attendance door prizing/raffles) Come and participate and get a chance to win a summer campaign t-shirt

WHAT: Warzone Night
TYPE: Tournament (PC) – Competitive
WHEN: Tuesday, July 7 (Monthly afterwards)
TIME: 5PM-12AM (Pending Signsups)
HOW: Open to all OU students (regardless of membership in the OU Esports Club). To join fill out the Google forms with the post and join a separate discord created specifically to record scoring (I will have the full ruleset typed out and everything). Potentially $5 per person for entry fee since we are not requiring OU Esports club membership
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: Teams of 2 (Prizing TBD)

Summer Camps

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Introducing The University of Oklahoma Esports Club Esports Camp portal! One of our missions has always been to advocate for esports topics across all of our developments and energies. We are pleased to debut our first camps ever! Whether it is journalism opportunities in broadcast, community planning logistics, academic opportunity awareness, or competitive energy we want to not only tell the world but also allow those interested to come along for the ride. We will offer camps throughout the calendar year focusing on Summer and Winter school breaks.

WHAT: Overwatch – BEGINNER (Ages 14-19)
TYPE: Training/Networking – Summer Camp
WHEN: July 14-19, 2020 (5 Days)
COST: $125
HOW: Click image to register.
WHO: Open to the globe!
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: TBD

WHAT: Overwatch – INTERMEDIATE (Ages 14-19)
TYPE: Training/Networking – Summer Camp
WHEN: July 14-19, 2020 (5 Days)
COST: $125
HOW: Click image to register.
WHO: Open to the globe!
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: TBD

WHAT: CS:GO – BEGINNER – INTERMEDIATE (Ages 14-19)
TYPE: Training/Networking – Summer Camp
WHEN: August 3-7, 2020 (5 Days)
COST: $125
HOW: Click image to register.
WHO: Open to the globe!
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: TBD

WHAT: OVERWATCH – INTERMEDIATE (Ages 14-19)
TYPE: Training/Networking – Summer Camp
WHEN: August 3-7, 2020 (5 Days)
COST: $125
HOW: Click image to register.
WHO: Open to the globe!
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: TBD

WHAT: OVERWATCH – ADVANCED (Ages 14-19)
TYPE: Training/Networking – Summer Camp
WHEN: August 3-7, 2020 (5 Days)
COST: $125
HOW: Click image to register.
WHO: Open to the globe!
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: TBD

Tournament Programming

WHAT: Rocket League (Collaboration with OU Fit & Rec)
TYPE: Tournament (Cross-play enabled, Steam/PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox) – Competitive
WHEN: July 11-12, 2020
TIME: 10AM-8PM (each day)
HOW: DEVELOPING
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: DEVELOPING

WHAT: League of Legends
TYPE: Tournament (PC) – Competitive
WHEN: July 25-26
TIME: 1PM-10PM
HOW: Developing
GIVEAWAYS/PRIZING: Developing

Mike "Moog" Aguilar

Mike "Moog" Aguilar is the Director of Esports & Co-Curricular Innovation at OU. He also works for OU IT doing project management and business analysis as well as an adjunct instructor for the Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication. He is a US Army veteran, has worked for Apple, worked in the public sector, and is a photographer of two decades. Mike has been a gamer since the Atari in the 80s and has been pioneering esports and gaming development and innovation at OU since 2016.

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