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College students and alumni got here collectively to get pleasure from esports and gaming tradition in the course of the annual Corridor of Fame Week celebration.
Throughout Full Sail College’s latest Corridor of Fame Week, the neighborhood got here collectively to have fun their collective love of esports, video video games, and tabletop video games. All through the week, attendees loved ample alternatives to nerd out and join with friends at occasions together with Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming 2025, a 24-hour recreation jam, a stay D20 Deathmatch, and the revealing of the brand new Armada HQ. College students additionally acquired the prospect to dive deep into the sport trade at varied panels and shows led by Full Sail graduates and trade specialists.
Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming
Present Armada varsity workforce members compete towards a workforce of Armada alumni in Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming.
The extremely anticipated week began with Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming 2025, the place a workforce of alumni from Full Sail Armada battled towards the present Armada varsity workforce in an thrilling esports competitors contained in the Full Sail College Orlando Well being Fortress. Rivals performed Apex Legends, League of Legends, and Halo: Infinite. Viewers cheered as they watched the thrilling matches in individual and over the Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming livestream. Crew Varsity in the end walked away because the champions. Attendees additionally loved freeplay Tremendous Smash Bros., arcade machine video games, meals vehicles, and raffles.
A raffle winner holds up their prize — a brand new pair of headphones.
Scholarships
Three college students and Armada varsity workforce members had been awarded scholarships from Orlando Well being.
At Corridor of Recreation: Homecoming, Orlando Well being acknowledged three Full Sail college students and Armada varsity workforce members for his or her contributions to the neighborhood, dedication to their educational success, and aggressive spirit — awarding them $5,000 every to make use of towards their instructional targets. Orlando Well being additionally contributed a further $15,000 in scholarship funds that had been awarded later within the week. Moreover, on the scholar block social gathering that concluded Corridor of Fame 15, EA Sports activities awarded six extra excellent Full Sail college students with $5,000 every in scholarship funds.
Recreation Jam
Groups of scholars compete in a 24-hour recreation jam.
From midday on March 9 to midday on March 10, greater than 300 college students in game-focused diploma packages took half in a 24-hour recreation jam. Groups of two to 5 college students had been tasked with growing one full degree of recreation in that restricted time, placing their abilities to the take a look at in a race towards the clock. Groups labored collectively and introduced their completed ranges to a panel of judges that included previous and current Corridor of Fame inductees; winners acquired prizes from sponsors together with MSI.
D20 Deathmatch
Hosts take the stage on the D20 Deathmatch.
On March 11, D20 Deathmatch – a stay Dungeons and Dragons precise play – was held on the out of doors stage, hosted by Bec Godsey (Course Director within the Recreation Enterprise & Esports program) and Drew Godsey, together with particular friends. College students loved the immersive TTRPG expertise which pitted two challengers towards one another in a brutal and hilarious enviornment spectacle, full with costumes, heavy metallic, and a large 20-sided die that gamers would roll out into the viewers.
Armada HQ Unveiling
The neighborhood gathers to have fun the thrilling debut of Armada HQ.
One other thrilling side of this 12 months’s Corridor of Fame Week was the revealing of Armada HQ — Full Sail’s new on-campus gaming and esports heart. Whereas the Fortress stays the college’s devoted esports enviornment, Armada HQ will function a collaborative area for all college students throughout all packages to make the most of and luxuriate in. It consists of casting services, manufacturing studio area, a gameplay lounge, and extra.
Throughout Armada HQ’s debut occasion, college students and alumni had been invited to cease by to get a tour, rating some free swag, play video games, meet present Armada workforce members, and listen to from Full Sail’s esports management concerning the many thrilling options of this new on-campus neighborhood area.
Panels and Shows
Jason Citron holds a fireplace chat for college kids and alumni.
All through the week, an array of instructional panels, shows, and workshops targeted on the sport trade had been supplied to Corridor of Fame attendees. The number of session subjects included what’s occurring within the recreation trade, a crash course in recreation audio, monetizing gaming content material, transferring your ardour for taking part in video games into growing video games, and a fireplace chat with Corridor of Fame 15 inductee and Discord CEO Jason Citron.
Tracy Wiu and Shae Ryan, hosts of the Corridor of Fame Dwell YouTube broadcast, interview inductee Alejandro García-Tuñón.
Presenters included previous and current Corridor of Fame inductees, Full Sail school and employees, and different trade specialists, all of whom gave their scholar audiences a spread of views {and professional} experiences to study from. Lots of the classes and festivities had been livestreamed on Full Sail’s Corridor of Fame Dwell YouTube broadcast.
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