Despite the NCAA rejecting a measure last year that would see it govern a new esports division, there is still a strong, concentrated effort to bring professional gaming to universities. Despite the NCAA and its rejection the dream still lives on and one such Division-1 conference is making a move towards an esports reality. The Mid-American Conference announced today the formation of the Esports Collegiate Conference, a ?historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports Conference to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams.? While esports at universities isn?t a new thing this is the first time an entire conference of schools has banded together and made progress towards unification.

We. Have. Arrived. We are Esports Collegiate!
https://t.co/BjZcJrVfSq pic.twitter.com/lacqdONsA5
? ESports Collegiate (@ESC_Conference) June 10, 2020

The ESC will initially include 12 founding members are:

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