{"id":68512,"date":"2014-09-04T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68512"},"modified":"2014-09-04T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:59:18","slug":"us-university-offers-video-game-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68512-us-university-offers-video-game-scholarships","title":{"rendered":"US university offers video game scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League of Legends players listen up, a US university\u00a0has started handing out athletic scholarships to players of the MOBA.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago-based Robert Morris University has put up 60 scholarships for League of Legends players, offering 50% off tuition fees, and free room and board. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the university\u00a0has already attracted over 2,200 applications two days after the initiative was launched.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the scholarship will also earn the chance to play on the university&#8217;s first eSports team.<\/p>\n<p>How will they decide who is worthy? Well, potential students will have to pass trials and \u2014 obviously\u00a0\u2014\u00a0be decent at their trade.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Morris University is no stranger to unconventional scholarship programmes, with the tertiary education institution giving out bowling (as in ten-pin), cheerleading, and, to a lesser extent, dance scholarships in the past.<\/p>\n<p>These scholarships\u00a0are apparently worth up to $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Watch an interview with the university&#8217;s associate athletic director, below, as he explains the reasoning behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNeTOdqQBBw?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any gamers going to be applying? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/wall-street-journal\/ha-ha-mum-scholarships-for-gamers\/story-fnay3ubk-1227046789584?nk=a60aa4a8f44c30fa71473462447c102d\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/68412-gargantuan-gaming-gear-give-away.html\">Gargantuan gaming gear give-away<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/68406-sony-has-a-plan-to-draw-japanese-gamers-to-ps4.html\">Sony has a plan to draw Japanese gamers to PS4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68384-sims-and-sleuthing-games-you-can-play-this-week.html\">Sims and Sleuthing \u2013 games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stick that in your pipe and smoke it mom and dad &#8211; video games are taking me to university<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":68516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,631,12914,12916],"class_list":["post-68512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-league-of-legends","tag-scholarship","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68524,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68512\/revisions\/68524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}