esports

The KC Pioneers and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City began a partnership to help connect kids in Kansas City with career opportunities in the world of esports. The groups also collaborated to build an esports lounge in northeast Kansas City, Kansas, and hold multiple youth esports tournaments.

Kansas City's esports team can draw more viewers than Sporting KC or the Kansas City Royals.

For every 200 Latinx students in the Kansas City area there is only one Latinx educator and the Pioneers take Kansas City into the ranks of Major League Gaming.

Gamers can get together any time they have an internet connection, but they say it hasn’t been the same as playing in person.

Six players signed contracts, wore Jayhawk T-shirts and put on blue KU ballcaps. But they won’t be running onto a basketball court or football field...