{"id":5108,"date":"2018-04-24T01:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2018-04-24T01:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:39:42","slug":"us-high-school-esports-league-now-open-to-14-5m-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/us-high-school-esports-league-now-open-to-14-5m-students\/","title":{"rendered":"US high school esports league now open to 14.5m students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayVS and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) have partnered up to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports<\/a> to 14.5 million students all over the United States of America. <\/p>\n<p>Set to start on October 2018, high schools from 15 states will compete in various tournaments. The competition will feature games from three different genres: <a href=\"\/games\/\" title=\"Best esports games\">MOBAs, sports games and fighting games<\/a>. The number of teams for each school are not limited, meaning a single institution could host several teams at once. <\/p>\n<p>PlayVS CEO Delane Parnell said esports \u201ccan be used to help students grow their STEM interests and develop valuable life skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The competition is modeled on regular college sports. The 15 states will be divided into conferences, each of which will have a champion. Teams must play at least eight matches in the season. The school year will be split into two regular seasons that around two months each.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20,000 high schools in the USA are eligible for this all-inclusive program. Students of all genders, backgrounds, races and physical condition are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>PlayVS is the first startup to take the action to high schools and help create an environment for the development of future professional esport players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The application process is now open.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayVS and the NFHS is bringing competitive esports to 14.5 million high school students in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[374,375,373],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-high-school","tag-nfhs","tag-playvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}