This brand new course aims to focus on skills needed to break into the Esports Industry. There are a large variety of roles within this area in order to broadcast, host and play these huge games that are presented to a large audience. This course ranges from planning an Esports event to understanding how competitive gaming worrks and how the teams function. As part of this course you’ll have chance to design your own game and character!

Esports offers a unique opportunity to study a sector that crosses over multiple subject areas, for example:

Business
Creatives
Marketing
IT
Enterprise
Sport

The qualification is endorsed by The British Esports Association as being suitable for learners wanting to work in this industry, for example: Esports player, Team coach, Events organiser, Shoutcaster and Presenter, Social influencer, Video production editor, Photographer, Data Analyst

Below you’ll find a sample of the resources and tasks that you’ll be asked to use and do throughout your time at KC. Kickstart your time at KC and take a look!

We have quite an array of watchable resources for this qualification, take a look at the videos below!

ONE.

Take a look at the How To Plan an Esports Event resource and create a basic plan of how you would organise your own Esports Event

TWO.

Design a character to suit a horror game, this character needs to be as scary as you can make it. We’d like some character bio notes as well as a sketch of what you’d like the character to look like. It doesn’t matter if this is completed digitally or on paper (you can take a photo of it to send in).