by eSport Association Austria
The eSport Association Austria invites all pupils from Vienna to the second eSport School Championship. The Event will take place on Friday the 12th of October in the City Hall of Vienna.
The eSport School Championship illustrates that Gaming is not only about fun and amusement. Social aspects play a decisive role. Establishing contact with other players, forming of clans and teams, sharing knowledge, communication and dealing with the new media in technical and social dimension area essential components for each young adult. These core competences are promoted through the participation at eSport School Championship.
Tournaments on PC, X-Box 360 and Tablet
The Tournaments will be held on three different platforms to ensure the biggest variety possible. The popular racing game Trackmania 2 Canyon will be played on PC. The hunt for the hundredths of a second can begin.
The pretty new body control system on the console X-Box 360, which is provided by the Kinect technology, allows a wild ride on the whitewater rivers of the game Kinect Adventures. Finally the last discipline is called Flight Control. The purpose of the game is to salve land as much planes as possible.
For pupils: Competition
Pupils from all over Vienna will compete at the City Hall of Vienna to find the winners of eSport School Championship 2012 in three different disciplines.
For teachers: Education
Digital Media and ‘Social Media’ of all kind (computer games are part of this) are part of the daily grind of adolescents. The eSport School Championship is contributing media competence in this context. These topics can easily be used in classes, for example in the form of open discussions.
The participation on eSport School Championship alone teaches the pupils in basic skills to deal with the new media. Big parts of the communication will be held via Internet, so the participants will come in contact with several instant messaging tools or Voice-over-IP programs. Basic knowledge in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), Internet Security and various network techniques will be teached. Many computer games offer besides gaming editors, so it is possible to be creative and to design some game levels oneself.
For parents: Information
A responsible handling with computer and console games is very important.
The BuPP (Federal Agency for positive rating of computer and console games) offers a platform for parents, who want to get more information about their children’s hobbies. Computer games offer a lot of possibilities and also a lot of risks. The eSport Association Austria takes youth protection seriously. It is the goal to understand computer gaming as sportive challenge. All pupils, teachers and parents are invited to participate in constructive discussion concerning the topics gaming in contact with politics and the public. These issues are subjected by the BuPP and the
eSport Association Austria. You can gather further Information under these
weblinks: www.bupp.at & www.elternlan.at.
