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I’m the advisor for my high school esports league and have money to spend. Help.

Replicant

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So my activity account has $4000 in it. What's the best bang for my buck to spend this on for hardware. My club last spring had 15 kids in it. They all played on console because we didn't not have gaming pc's available.

We do have some pretty good spec'd Desktops laying around with 5 gen i5's and 8gb of RAM. Maybe video cards?

Any advice you could throw my way, I'd appreciate.
 
perfectchaos007

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Do they already have team uniforms with a cool logo? It's a good way to promote the club if they walked around school wearing them
 
Piston

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What games are they interested in typically? If 15 kids show up, do you have enough computers/consoles for everyone to be playing simultaneously?

Do they have phones that could run Fortnite or Underlords?

They can play League and most Auto Chess games on a toaster.

Super Smash and Mario Kart would be really easy to setup.
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Do they already have team uniforms with a cool logo? It's a good way to promote the club if they walked around school wearing them
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A club shirt for every kid would be a good investment too if you wanted more people to get interested.
 
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I'd get a few switches for smash, mario kart etc. 10 or so ps4s or xbox one, setup game sharing between each pair.
 
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Weebos

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Depends on the games they're interested I imagine. You could get a handful of decent PCs, but that's less useful if the kids randomly love Smash Bros or Halo.

I would probably focus on the free to play games like Fornite, LoL, Hearthstone, DOTA.
 
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Do you know the specific CPUs? Also what games are you going to play?
If it's something that doesn't require lots of power like Fortnite this will be fine.
Didn't include the OS because your school you have a way to get them free.
Do you also need peripherals?


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CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($139.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 AORUS M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($73.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: ADATA - SU800 128 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($22.03 @ Amazon)
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Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 570 4 GB PULSE Video Card ($134.99 @ Newegg)
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Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($69.90 @ Amazon)
Total: $594.67
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ProstatePuncher

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5th gen i5's should be good enough and not need replacement if you want to go the PC route. Games like Fortnite, CSGO and DOTA2 aren't really that GPU heavy so you could outfit them all with cheap enough GPU's and have a healthy PC comp scene going, both on LAN and also going online together.

Logical Increments has excellent build guides specific for games, so you can check that out for advice on GPU's to look into, as per the games the kids are interested in: http://www.logicalincrements.com/
 
DoradoWinston

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yo i wish my school had an esport league growing up we would have clapped.



also you can probably get some RX500's for cheap these days, those will do any game you want at 1080p@60.
 
FinKL

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There are High School eSports leagues?! What a time to be alive....
Probably get a poll on what are the popular esports titles with the kids these days and go from there?
You can make cheap computers with the Ryzen APU's

I'm fighting game biased so I say buy them some PS4 and arcade sticks and make them fight to the death.

Please don't make meme flyers
 
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Something like 1050ti that can be slotted into a PCI slot w/o any extra power. Could buy used to save even more.
 

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it's actually making me inordinately happy that someone quoted that and didnt take it at face value in this forum lol
 
Chrno

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what do you play at this club? the answer to your question is largely dependent on that.
 

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Maybe hold a meeting first and find out what games the current generation want to focus on

Then strategise what you're gonna buy

Also make sure to put ads up saying "girls welcome" :)
 
Illusion

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Buy a Switch with a few controllers with Smash Bros and Mario Kart to help with excess kids since Smash can play up to 8 players. $500 is the better investment when your thinking about how many kids could play in excess. Also skip buying a PS4 and XB1. Focus more on desktop computers with basic keyboards and mice. Dont bother with all the gaming branded stuff.

Just look at refurbished computers.

Have money on the side for each computer you buy (5 computers gave about $50 each in case you need to buy a copy of the same game if they decide to be competitive about it)
 
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Piston said:
What games are they interested in typically? If 15 kids show up, do you have enough computers/consoles for everyone to be playing simultaneously?

Do they have phones that could run Fortnite or Underlords?

They can play League and most Auto Chess games on a toaster.

Super Smash and Mario Kart would be really easy to setup.

A club shirt for every kid would be a good investment too if you wanted more people to get interested.
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They bring their own consoles. We use highschoolesportsleague as our league and the games are specific in which they can compete.

This spring it was rainbow six, fortnite and smash as the games our kids played.
 
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The desktops we have are broadwell i5's. Should be okay.

Shirts and apparel was on my list. We can get those through our league for not too much money.

And yes high school esports is a thing. College scholarships available these days too.
 
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Illusion said:
Buy a Switch with a few controllers with Smash Bros and Mario Kart to help with excess kids since Smash can play up to 8 players. $500 is the better investment when your thinking about how many kids could play in excess. Also skip buying a PS4 and XB1. Focus more on desktop computers with basic keyboards and mice. Dont bother with all the gaming branded stuff.

Just look at refurbished computers.

Have money on the side for each computer you buy (5 computers gave about $50 each in case you need to buy a copy of the same game if they decide to be competitive about it)
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We require all students to bring and supply their own games. Hardware too for the most part. My goal with buying PC's or parts for PC's as some of the games are PC only and many of students do not have a gaming PC, but they do have consoles. Overwatch for example in our league is PC only.
 
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Replicant said:
They bring their own consoles. We use highschoolesportsleague as our league and the games are specific in which they can compete.

This spring it was rainbow six, fortnite and smash as the games our kids played.
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These are the games then: https://www.highschoolesportsleague.com/league-info

They can choose from:

Rocket League - Switch, PS4, Xbox, PC
Counter-Strike: GO - PC
League of Legends - PC
Overwatch - PC
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch
Fortnite - Switch, PS4, Xbox, PC, Mobile
Rainbow Six: Siege - Xbox, PC
NBA 2k - PS4, Xbox
Madden NFL - PS4, Xbox
FIFA - PS4, Xbox
 
Red Arremer

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One thing I definitely recommend is reaching out to the offices of various game publishers and console manufacturers. They are usually very happy to provide some small goodies like shirts, keychains etc. that you can use as prizes or for giveaways, some send decorations (especially cool if you have tourneys for certain games), and some even are willing to send you game copies and all that jazz.
 
Teh_Lurv

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And yes high school esports is a thing. College scholarships available these days too.
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It still boggles my mind how far gaming acceptance in schools has come over the last twenty years. Over the weekend I was reminiscing with a friend at his 40th birthday party about the time we founded a gaming club on campus (this was back in 2000-2001). We had to get approval through the student government and requested no funding (we just wanted club status so we could reserve campus rooms for tournaments and the like), but we were met with severe push-back from the student government. Some people thought a "gaming club" would imply the college would be endorsing gambling. Some students never even heard the word gaming used in a context outside of hunting. It was a giant PITA just to get that official recognition from the school. It feels weird to hear about college sponsorships and the like today.
 
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Teh_Lurv said:
It still boggles my mind how far gaming acceptance in schools has come over the last twenty years. Over the weekend I was reminiscing with a friend at his 40th birthday party about the time we founded a gaming club on campus (this was back in 2000-2001). We had to get approval through the student government and requested no funding (we just wanted club status so we could reserve campus rooms for tournaments and the like), but we were met with severe push-back from the student government. Some people thought a "gaming club" would imply the college would be endorsing gambling. Some students never even heard the word gaming used in a context outside of hunting. It was a giant PITA just to get that official recognition from the school. It feels weird to hear about college sponsorships and the like today.
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I had to really hammer home to our school board for approval for our club and explain that it isn't just kids wanting to play video games. Also had to explain the violence aspect. I also had to volunteer my time to be the advisor where most advisors for clubs and activities get paid.
 
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