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what on earth would a real life gaming school look like well

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we're here at yong ping vocational high school in taoyuan city taiwan where they

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are currently accepting applicants for the brand new gaming program that will

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officially open its doors in september of 2018 so

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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

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it was never voluntarily but

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as a parent i've got a lot of questions walking into

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something like this

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but while i might have started out thinking excuse me

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gaming school i learned a lot during my meeting with

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the principal first of all youngping is one of 400 vocational schools in taiwan

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and is now ranked in the top 10 with around 6 000 students so they do a lot

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more than just gaming and i also learned that at this time there isn't a

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full-time gaming track any of the 100 or

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so students who will be accepted into the gaming program

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will be expected to pick another of the

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vocations they offer like automotive repair food graphic design or tourism as

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um sort of like a double major so to make the obvious joke it is not

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all fun and games and the gaming program will be very demanding to ensure that

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students have the right mindset not only are the administrators and coaches going

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to be looking at traditional acceptance requirements like grades on taiwan's

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standardized tests but they're also going to be interviewing applicants and

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even yes you knew this one was coming

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conducting tryouts with their gaming coaches to evaluate their skills and

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that is skills with the zed now the school already has an

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extracurricular esports team with a coaching staff of retired players and

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they're building partnerships with affiliated local teams like j team and

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ms that will allow students to apply for esports internships

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but to make the experience more school-like they're going to have to

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think outside the box a little bit and beef up their staff to cover not

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just how to play video games but also a broad range of gaming industry related

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subjects so as a private school they have the luxury

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to build their curriculum so students will learn to build and troubleshoot

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their pcs they'll study the different pc components and their effects on gaming

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performance they will learn principles of game streaming on platforms like

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twitch and even attend classes for less

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obvious things like the history of esports and gaming and some pr and

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marketing fundamentals so inside here is one of their regular

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classrooms where gaming program students will learn traditional core subjects

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like chinese math english and history

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and also where for example a tourism

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double major student would study japanese but

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that is not to say that they won't also have a real bonafide overwatch class

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where they'll cover map analysis character pros and cons individual

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strategies and techniques and the teamwork and communication principles

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that are necessary for success in the highly competitive esports scene along

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with yes actual homework assignments like

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achieve and maintain gold rank in overwatch as you can imagine it would

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probably be beneficial to have sessions in a computer lab to practice the

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techniques that are being presented by the instructor

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and i don't mean a computer lab like this one

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i'm talking about one like this

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this room cost 300

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000 to build and they'll be adding another one just like it before the

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students arrive in the fall and man this kind of computer lab would have been my

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dream in high school there are about 25 gaming machines in here equipped with

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core i5 processors and gtx 1060 6gb

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video cards they've got a vr gaming space right smack dab in the middle of

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the room and they've got a fantastic streaming setup in here including RGB

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out gaming themed decor pan tilt zoom cameras for the players and the

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commentators and a quad tv setup down at

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the end for spectating in person like these guys do not mess around they've

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got like 75 hertz monitors cherry mx

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blue gaming keyboards pretty much the freaking

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works wow but as cool as it all is

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i wouldn't be surprised if the majority of you still think video game high

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school makes more sense as a web video series than as an actual thing for you

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i've got a challenge why don't you try thinking about it a slightly different

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way so in the same way that not everyone who

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enrolls in a cooking vocational program will become a world famous chef

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not everyone who enrolls in this gaming program will become a champion esports

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player and that's okay because there's a lot more to the gaming

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industry as a whole than just playing

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games competitively these days gaming bars are growing in

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popularity gaming and food program anyone

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gaming hotels are starting to spring up gaming and tourism sounds like a great

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background for that kind of work and the gaming organizations that used to

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subsist on scraps are now playing tournaments in major sports arenas with

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organizations like epic games committing a hundred million dollars of funding and

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prize money towards their games it's crazy

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even within the computer hardware industry remember these are the companies that make

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gaming gear i have personally experienced a huge need for

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representatives who actually understand gaming and gamers to help their

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companies address the growing market that they represent you can learn about

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gaming after you enter the workforce but

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if you know that that's what you want to do with your life

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then this whole thing here

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starts to make a lot more sense

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and i still haven't even mentioned the connections element this is a huge and

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often undervalued part of choosing the right school

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attending a vocational school means that you graduate with a large cohort of

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passionate people with similar aspirations who can work together to get

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into the careers that they want and support each other as they enter the

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workforce so i walked in here a skeptic

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and i still have my doubts i'm sure there's a lot of work to be done but it

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makes far more sense to me walking out than it did walking in so i guess i got

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taken to school today

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