Facilities

Only students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus partners can register to be an "OU Gaming Club Access Member" while the "VIP Member" includes the same minus alumni. For "Access" members you can register by joining our Discord. For "VIP" members you have to stop in the venue during our hours of operation to get signed up and pay for your membership. Join our Discord!

We currently use Clover for our processing and this enables everything from all major credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, PayPal, Venmo, cash, and even checks! (If you remember what those things are.)

We are working to enable the ability to prepay using a web portal for time, merch, memberships, and any other function we have for the venue before even arriving. 

For the remainder of the Spring 2024 semester only students, faculty, staff, campus partners, and student organizations can reserve the venue. We do have plans to open this up for outside OU reservations later in 2024. Please stay tuned in our Discord and socials as we add new abilities and features.

Please use the form link above in the "Reservations" to submit your reservation request.

It's ALMOST that simple! Come in during our open hours, and if you're already all set with an account/play time, all we need is for you to show your SoonerID at the front desk (on weekdays only) before claiming a gaming station. Think of this like checking into a gym.

Absolutely! Maybe you show up at right when we open, but have class at 1P-2P or want to go run an errand or grab food, DO IT! We'll see you when you get back later in the day and you can resume as if you never left. Just remember day passes expire once the day ends. 

100% of venue, membership, and reservation fees are exclusively earmarked to fuel student payroll and resources. Other funding sources, sponsorships, and donations are used for departmental staffing past student employees, travel, training, and maintenance. 

For general use, Saturdays and Sundays are open to the public. Certain events throughout the year will be open to the public.

Please check our hours of operations at the top of this page. Monday through Friday the venue is exclusively available to OU students, faculty, staff, & campus partners ONLY. On Saturday and Sunday we do open up the venue to the public too. Aside from that, there are no further prerequisites to come in. If you are an OU member please ensure you have your SoonerCard ID, eaccounts mobile app logged in, or be able to verify you are a member of the OU collective.

We automatically bake in 5 minutes from when you login to when the time usage starts ticking down. If you have issues, it's ok! Just explain what's happening to our lab staff and they'll work with you. We want you to feel at home in our spaces and that also means when things happen, we can work through them, but speak up if something comes up so we can know ASAP. 

Nintendo uses very common network ports which are very prone to security vulnerabilities. OU is an high level research campus on top of a public institution and to remain complaint as well as protect our infrastructure from top to bottom much of OU's network is locked down and protected against past and present cybersecurity threats. 

The Nintendo perk represents the only place on campus where OU Provided WIFI allows for full multiplayer and network capability for Nintendo Switches. VIP members only as OU Esports & Co-Curricular Innovation specifically funds and enables this 3rd party service on OU campus with the support, approval, and collaboration with OU IT. 

Good question! Only one person will need to be signed in and paying that hourly rate! If we detect any account sharing beyond this level, we will take action including an account suspension or ban.

Yes! We want everyone to be comfortable in the venue, and if that means playing on your own device, do it! However, depending on where you get setup, we'll need you to pay our hourly rate/have a membership. If you're just playing on your handheld device and chilling in the venue, perfect! We also have 3 workstations that are Switch Dock & HDMI capable, and those are available for FREE on first-come first-serve basis. If you get setup at any other station in the venue, you will need to sign in to SENET.

"In the spirit of helping foster League of Legends communities on high school and college campuses, Riot will be granting access to League Unlocked to approved computers as part of the Campus League Unlocked program. Schools can apply and, once approved, any player who plays on those machines will receive access to all League of Legends champions, a collection of skins, as well as an XP boost. These rewards are specific to the location, so players will need to play on a registered computer to receive them!"  - Riot Games 

Our venue is Campus League Unlocked! 

Absolutely NOT, your team functions like scrims, practices, formal meetings, and team functions are part of your development obligation to OU Esports & Co-Curricular Innovation. The above mentioned time is for "PERSONAL" usage meaning when you, the individual, wants to just come in and game whenever you want separate from your team functions and obligations. 

Of course! Everyone plays and gets comfortable with their own input devices. All we ask is you respect our peripherals when you move them out of the way and then you move them back when you’re done. You can also ask our staff to disconnect ours for you if you’d like. We want you to feel comfortable and welcome in our spaces as priority one!

We always want OUr gamers to feel welcome and included! If you own a game that isn’t installed and want to use our space and hardware to play, then simply install it when you come in. All popular game launchers are preinstalled, just login to your account and install. We do not actively wipe our storage unless we need to free up space for basic functions or if we need to host an event with specific games and need the space.