GCN and Van Wagner are setting up college esports tournaments.
GCN and Van Wagner are setting up college esports tournaments.
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GCN and Van Wagner create national collegiate esports tournaments

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gaming Community Network (GCN) and Van Wagner have teamed up to create national collegiate esports tournaments across multiple games. The first game competition will take place in May with Epic Games’ Fortnite.

GCN is an independent media group dedicated to gaming and esports, and Van Wagner is an advisory group that represents more than 110 colleges. Their tournament will be the largest national esports tournament to reach the collegiate marketplace, the companies said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.