November 2022 Newsletter
Contents
A Word From The League
Fall 2022 State LAN & Stream Info
New Resources Page on MNVL.org
Version1
MNVL Twitch Team
MNVL YouTube Video of the Month
A Word From The League
Hey all,
The season is in motion and off to a great start. As we go along, we wanted to share information on how you can keep up with the season, share plans for the State Finals, and welcome back our oldest friend and supporter.
Keeping the message short and sweet. Stay warm Minnesota, it’s time to bust out the wool socks and watch some MNVL action.
Minnesota Varsity League
Fall 2022 State LAN & Stream Info
It’s time to plan for LAN. The dates, format and amount of participants making state has been announced and will be hosted at Wisdom Gaming Studios in the Mall of America again this season!
The 2022 Fall State LAN will take place over one weekend and will be a weekend you won’t want to miss. We’re inviting the top 32 Super Smash Bros competitors to State on Friday, January 13th, up from 16 from last season. On Saturday, January 14th we have both Minecraft Bedwars 2v2 and Varsity Valorant. Then on Sunday, January 15th to wrap up the weekend, League of Legends and Rocket League will play.
The Road to State:
SSBU - The top 8 players with the best record after Week 8 of the regular season from each of the four divisions will move onto state.
Minecraft - The top 16 teams with the best record after Week 8 of the regular season will move onto state.
Varsity Valorant - Competes in a 7 week regular season with divisional tournaments during Week 8. Every Varsity teams qualifies for divisionals and will be seeded based off their regular season record. The top 2 teams from each divisional tournament will move onto state.
League of Legends - The top 8 teams with the best record after Week 8 of the regular season will move onto state.
Rocket League - The top 8 teams with the best record after Week 8 of the regular season from both divisions will move onto state.
*Club Chess has their online club finals tournament during the last week (Week 8) of the regular season.
You can watch the build up to state live on our twitch every week at TWITCH.TV/MNVL!
New Resources Page on MNVL.org
Now available on MNVL.org is our newly published Resources page. This is a place where coaches (new or existing) and students can find helpful tools that can help them improve themselves and their team in and out of competition. When navigating to this page, you’ll find guides on how to start an esports program, curriculum, coaching support, aim and warm up tools and a school fundraising initiative.
Curriculum:
Register for a free guide on how to build a esports program/stream/lab at your school and receive access to esports related grant opportunities for your program. Through our curriculum partner StemFuse, schools registered in MNVL get a discounted rate of all esports centered curriculum, which includes:
- Intro to Esports Course
- Esports: Inside the Games
- IT Explorations
- Intro to Business and Technology
- Enhancing your Business Pathway with Esports - Training Seminar
- GameIT: Coding with Video Game Design
Coaches can sign up HERE to receive the free guide on building your esports program and get access to listed grants. Students, talk with your coach if you’d like to find out how get one of these courses taught at your school.
Coaching Assistance:
As the Head Coach of a program, it can be tough to know the best strategies and practices to have your team run in every league of MNVL. An option could be using Vanta as your source to finding help. Whether it’s for the entire season or one session, they have certified and background approved coaches that can help your team get to the next level. MNVL programs receive 10% off of their dedicated coach offering (coach for the season) and you can fill out the interest form to learn more HERE or on our new Resources page.
Aim Training & Warming Up:
Gwoop is a free service offered to all MNVL participants where they can practice their skills and warm up before matches. Through a variety of challenges testing things like reaction time, click rate, accuracy and more; players can train to help get them to the top of their game and track their progress. Set up your free account here: https://gwoop.com/en-US/
Merchandise Fundraising:
We are working with our new partners Promotion Select to provide custom team merchandise while giving our teams a way to raise funds for their programs!
Steps:
1. Coaches can find the form on our Discord server to request custom merch for their program.
2. Upload your logo (2-3 colors) to be added to your selected items, or choose a text option
3. You will be sent mock ups of your merch, and an order form for purchasing
4. Important: All items for a team must be purchased as a bulk order, and there must be a minimum of 12 for each item you would like to purchase (if you want jerseys, you must purchase a minimum of 12)
5. Teams can choose to receive 15% back as cash for their program, or select to take 15% off the purchase price
Once you have ordered, your items will be printed and shipped in about 3-4 weeks.
Version1 Returns
MNVL is proud to have Version1 return as an official sponsor for the 2022 fall season. A crucial partner over the last four seasons, Version1 sponsorship allows students to compete for free. In addition to continuing to sponsor players in Valorant, this year Version1 is expanding its sponsorship to cover the registration fees for all Rocket League teams, as well.
"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Minnesota Varsity League and high school esports for a fourth season," said Brett Diamond, Chief Operating Officer at Version1. “The growth in the high school esports community over the past few years has been exciting to watch. Supporting that growth as well as the development of the students in and out of the game is a high priority for Version1.”
"As we enter our sixth season, it's important for us to take inventory on how we can further and expand our capabilities to support students as they excel not only in competition but also with core developmental skills," said Jake Utities, Director of Minnesota Varsity League. "We're happy to continue and expand our partnership with our friends at Version1 for Valorant and Rocket League for the fall 2022 season."
Learn about the partnership here: https://version1.gg/mnvl
MNVL Twitch Team
The MNVL Twitch team is live! We’re now accepting applications from programs to be a member of the Twitch Team. Members will be listed in the left column and will have a red dot appear next to their name when they’re live. If our members are live they will be displayed for fans to watch and will appear on our Twitch Team and on Leaguespot for the league to watch.
We believe this is an awesome opportunity to start building our school programs’ online presences and allow fans to be able to watch more games from their favorite teams!
Check it out here: https://www.twitch.tv/team/mnvarsityleague (toss it on the favorites bar so ya don’t lose it)
MNVL Youtube
View our YouTube channel where we highlight our players in weekly content during the season!