The clinic has a medical feel because of its original intent, but that helps us focus development students into understanding this is where the work gets done. From representing our program in competition, live gameplay production, live personal streams, or composing the articles, press releases, and media on this very website this is the business end of what we do and where the casual “gaming” stops and goal-oriented “esports” exists exclusively. Understanding the difference is important to truly understanding the intention of the complex overall. Gaming is like playing a pickup game of basketball with your friends at a local court. You do not have to ask anybody to do it. Esports, however, is the NBA with all the team development, marketing, production, sponsors, and business.
The front lobby has been retrofitted to accommodate LAN connectivity through Switch docks and any consoles alike. On the opposite side of the lobby is an identical Sim racing rig to the venue side which covers all Nintendo, sports, and fighting game intercollegiate esports development programs. Whatever we develop as a program we work on ensuring the resources of our spaces can accommodate team meetings, VoD review, practices, and competition alike.
There are over 175 students across all of the ECCI programs
Our students represent over 50 different areas of study with a sustained 3.13+ GPA since 2017
ECCI programs were developed to capture OU's curricular strengths coupled with the needs of the industry
The University of Oklahoma was awarded Global Collegiate Esports Program of The Year 2023 by the Esports Awards
Much like the Console/Sim Team Spaces, we retrofit an exam room and the front check in desk of the preexisting clinic intent to accomodate up to 5 players with an analyst/coach station. These leverage the same hardware we have on the venue side with the monitors upgraded to 240Hz. Our esports athletes decided to use the OEM peripherals or use their own.
The Production Studio is focused around the creation of live event broadcasting for our Intercollegiate Esports teams as well as podcast style productions for our Media & News and Influencer Development programs. Leveraging green screen, XLR mics, and a mirrorless camera we can capture low to high quality content on the fly. The intention of the Production Program is to create producers and mature casters to be able to autonomously leverage this space to perform the described coverage. We leverage both NDI and HDMI to USB capture card methods to produce whatever we need.
The Media & News Office is home to our development students charged with creating content on our sooneresports.org media outlet. With a full selection of recording gear to film, photograph, and document just about anything they want to. We ask that this team allocates at least 50% of their time to the needs of the OU ECCI department collective and the other 50% we demand they use it for showcasing who we are as a culture. From opinion pieces, highlighting industry news of interest, game reviews, or sharing a love for music in games, this team is armed to be the long-term storytellers of our department and culture as a whole.
The Streamer Studio is geared towards our Influencer Development program which helps students launch their own channels and brands while bolstering our own. This studio also has motion capture ability without the need of body attached sensors to enable production with augmented reality or virtual reality alike. Allowing for the insertion of someone right into a game like Beat Saber or to take full control of an avatar in VR Chat. This room comes equipped with a retractable green screen backdrop to allow the PC station to create a “room” where they can create their own entire image in overlays, background, and content. This room also can be leveraged for production for competition or podcast hosting if needed.
SIM RACING SPECS:
ATHLETE PCs
CPU: Intel i7 13700KF
RAM: 32GB DDR5
STORAGE: 2TB NVME GEN4
GPU: MSI RTX 4070Ti 12GB
MONITOR: Asus 24.5″ VG259QM 1080P/240hz/G-Sync
KEYBOARD: MSI Vigor GK30
MOUSE: MSI Clutch GM11
HEADSET: HyperX Cloud III
OTHER: MSI Aegis RS 13NUF-439US
COACHES PC
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600
RAM: 32GB DDR4
STORAGE: 2TB NVME GEN3
GPU: MSI RTX 2080 8GB
MONITOR: 3x 1080P/165Hz/G-Sync
KEYBOARD: MSI Vigor GK30
MOUSE: MSI Clutch GM11
HEADSET: HyperX Cloud III
OTHER: MSI Aegis RS 13NUF-439US
COMPUTER: Same MSI as team rooms (13700K/RTX4070Ti)
CAMERA: OSBOT PTZ 4K AI Camera
CAPTURE CARD: Elgato 4K Pro PCI-E
AUDIO MIXER: Focusrite 18i8 3rd Gen
CASTER/PRODUCER HEADSETS: TASCAM TH-MX2
PRODUCER MIC: Movo VSM-7
CASTER MIC: Movo PC-M6
COMPUTER: Custom PC (R9 5950x/1080Ti/64GB/2TB) w/27″ 4K color calibrated monitor for video editing, graphic work, and article composition
We exclusively leverage Fujifilm bodies with a fleet of Fuji glass.
Bodies: Fuji X-T3, X-S20
COMPUTER: Custom PC (i5-12600K/RTX2070S/32GB/2TB) w/ Asus 24.5″ VG24VQR 1080/165hz/VRR Monitor
CAMERA: 1080P Webcam
CAPTURE CARD: Elgato HD60 X
AUDIO MIXER: Focusrite Solo 3rd Gen
STREAMER HEADSET: TASCAM TH-MX
STREAMER MIC: Movo PC-M6
MOTION CAPTURE: 2x Modified Microsoft Kinects (No body sensors)
Simple! Join our Discord and fill out the registration application which is FREE in the #info-and-rules section and make sure that on the last question you select you want to learn more. To look at our programs and teams head to our program directory here. You are also welcome to DM any staff/coach in our Discord or send an email to esports@ou.edu if you want to ask questions before applying.
This is only for students with a few opportunities in coaching and casting for staff and faculty of any type across all of our campuses. So if you’re not a student, well, head over to OU Admissions to get your app in!
The OU Esports Clinic was originally an AM/PM clinic extension of OU’s Health Services known as the Goddard Health Center. In 2021, OU Esports & Co-Curricular gained a temporary office space within Cross B at the corner of 4th and Jenkins Avenue. In Summer 2023, access to this space became a reality and we started to plan how to maximize the space with it’s current power capabilities, space layout, and design which is now the OU Esports Clinic.
In June 2023, The OU Board of Regents approved our project proposal to renovate our space on campus. As a quick action measure we worked through Summer 2023 and early 2024 to bring the spaces online as a preview of whats to come.
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