Tag: HSEL

Charles Reilly, Mason Mullenioux, and Aaron Hawkey, Generation Esports co-founders

Esports trendsetters launching Social Distancing Open as gaming champs fire back at COVID-19

By Tommy Felts / April 16, 2020

Opportunities to connect are in high demand and video games could score relief in a level of life that’s been suddenly planked by intense isolation, said Mason Mullenioux.  “Esports kind of lends itself to a situation like this,” Mullenioux, co-founder of the Kansas City-based High School Esports League, said of the coming Social Distancing Open…

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Investors, students find potential and power in High School eSports League

By Tommy Felts / June 18, 2019

Benjie Lewis saw potential in eSports from the beginning — first as a mentor, then an investor, he said. Rapidly evolving from recreational pastime to official leagues and high school sports programs, the competitive multiplayer gaming concept has created a new space for startup opportunity, he said. “When I was growing up … they weren’t…

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