what on earth would a real life gaming school look like well
we're here at yong ping vocational high school in taoyuan city taiwan where they
are currently accepting applicants for the brand new gaming program that will
officially open its doors in september of 2018 so
i guess we're gonna find out
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it's been a long time since i've had to go to the principal's office and
it was never voluntarily but
as a parent i've got a lot of questions walking into
something like this
but while i might have started out thinking excuse me
gaming school i learned a lot during my meeting with
the principal first of all youngping is one of 400 vocational schools in taiwan
and is now ranked in the top 10 with around 6 000 students so they do a lot
more than just gaming and i also learned that at this time there isn't a
full-time gaming track any of the 100 or
so students who will be accepted into the gaming program
will be expected to pick another of the
vocations they offer like automotive repair food graphic design or tourism as
um sort of like a double major so to make the obvious joke it is not
all fun and games and the gaming program will be very demanding to ensure that
students have the right mindset not only are the administrators and coaches going
to be looking at traditional acceptance requirements like grades on taiwan's
standardized tests but they're also going to be interviewing applicants and
even yes you knew this one was coming
conducting tryouts with their gaming coaches to evaluate their skills and
that is skills with the zed now the school already has an
extracurricular esports team with a coaching staff of retired players and
they're building partnerships with affiliated local teams like j team and
ms that will allow students to apply for esports internships
but to make the experience more school-like they're going to have to
think outside the box a little bit and beef up their staff to cover not
just how to play video games but also a broad range of gaming industry related
subjects so as a private school they have the luxury
to build their curriculum so students will learn to build and troubleshoot
their pcs they'll study the different pc components and their effects on gaming
performance they will learn principles of game streaming on platforms like
twitch and even attend classes for less
obvious things like the history of esports and gaming and some pr and
marketing fundamentals so inside here is one of their regular
classrooms where gaming program students will learn traditional core subjects
like chinese math english and history
and also where for example a tourism
double major student would study japanese but
that is not to say that they won't also have a real bonafide overwatch class
where they'll cover map analysis character pros and cons individual
strategies and techniques and the teamwork and communication principles
that are necessary for success in the highly competitive esports scene along
with yes actual homework assignments like
achieve and maintain gold rank in overwatch as you can imagine it would
probably be beneficial to have sessions in a computer lab to practice the
techniques that are being presented by the instructor
and i don't mean a computer lab like this one
i'm talking about one like this
this room cost 300
000 to build and they'll be adding another one just like it before the
students arrive in the fall and man this kind of computer lab would have been my
dream in high school there are about 25 gaming machines in here equipped with
core i5 processors and gtx 1060 6gb
video cards they've got a vr gaming space right smack dab in the middle of
the room and they've got a fantastic streaming setup in here including RGB
out gaming themed decor pan tilt zoom cameras for the players and the
commentators and a quad tv setup down at
the end for spectating in person like these guys do not mess around they've
got like 75 hertz monitors cherry mx
blue gaming keyboards pretty much the freaking
works wow but as cool as it all is
i wouldn't be surprised if the majority of you still think video game high
school makes more sense as a web video series than as an actual thing for you
i've got a challenge why don't you try thinking about it a slightly different
way so in the same way that not everyone who
enrolls in a cooking vocational program will become a world famous chef
not everyone who enrolls in this gaming program will become a champion esports
player and that's okay because there's a lot more to the gaming
industry as a whole than just playing
games competitively these days gaming bars are growing in
popularity gaming and food program anyone
gaming hotels are starting to spring up gaming and tourism sounds like a great
background for that kind of work and the gaming organizations that used to
subsist on scraps are now playing tournaments in major sports arenas with
organizations like epic games committing a hundred million dollars of funding and
prize money towards their games it's crazy
even within the computer hardware industry remember these are the companies that make
gaming gear i have personally experienced a huge need for
representatives who actually understand gaming and gamers to help their
companies address the growing market that they represent you can learn about
gaming after you enter the workforce but
if you know that that's what you want to do with your life
then this whole thing here
starts to make a lot more sense
and i still haven't even mentioned the connections element this is a huge and
often undervalued part of choosing the right school
attending a vocational school means that you graduate with a large cohort of
passionate people with similar aspirations who can work together to get
into the careers that they want and support each other as they enter the
workforce so i walked in here a skeptic
and i still have my doubts i'm sure there's a lot of work to be done but it
makes far more sense to me walking out than it did walking in so i guess i got
taken to school today
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