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Competitive esports is predicted to make a return in 2022, with multiple large-scale international tournaments and events fueling the ever-growing industry.

For the second year in a row, campus student organization Blockeley has taken up the torch of helping UC Berkeley students experience a graduation ceremony through the video game Minecraft.

Team MAJKL became the first all-women Valorant squad to win a Riot-sponsored championship title Sunday, taking home first place — and $25,000 — in the FTW Summer Showdown without dropping a single map.

The event was an attempt to maximize audiences’ growing desire to see live acts perform, and experimented with the constraints of the world’s new reality.

To sit down and physically play a board game is a luxury few expected would disappear overnight.

Donning virtual caps and gowns, UC Berkeley students logged in to their computers Saturday to celebrate an unconventional graduation ceremony in the Minecraft server popularly known as “Blockeley University.”

The debate over whether esports are “real sports” has been ongoing for years. But no one ever asked: what if esports are the only sports?

Here are some things you can do to keep your spirits up and keep you connected to others while you're stuck inside during this time of social distancing.

Esports, though different in form and not the age-old game with centuries of history, can provide that joy for millions of fans across the globe.

With a small but diverse lineup of five artists and two last-minute additions, Blau (stylized as “3LAU”) and his OMF team gathered performances with a strictly frat-DJ mindset in which the only direction for the mood and sound was up.