Virtual Reality Esports League for students arrives in Europe!
By: Manuel Bäuerle
Tags: Students, Virtual Reality, Xr Bootcamp, Extended Reality, Esport

What is the CVRE EU League about?

The CVRE, is the Collegiate Virtual Reality Esports League. We had 3 successful seasons in North America, soon we will provide tournaments in Beat Saber and Echo Arena to students all over Europe!

Anyone can participate, solo or as a team, as long as they are students and have access to any PC-VR equipment which is able to run the games mentioned above. For Beat Saber even the Oculus Quest works! So make sure you sign up for this season!

Come in and compete for the title of the best school in VR esports. If you are interested have a look at our website or join our Discord server and have a chat with us. Registrations are open,if you have any questions feel free to text me until the 15th of February!

Is VR esports common? How big is it?

Yes, esports has been around in VR for several years now. There are many tournaments happening each year, even annual worldwide championships with offline finals are being held. Over the past 12 months more than 1500 players participated in VR esport leagues and won over 290.000 dollars through VR esports, which also shows the huge interest of sponsors in the growing market.

How did you get into VR?

To be honest, a few years ago I’ve been a VR critic and simply thought it is a gadget nobody needs. That was until I had my very first VR experience at a games fair where I played Space Junkies. It was so stunning and immersive, I instantly bought my very own Oculus Rift the next day. And for that I took a 5 hour car trip to the next market offering VR!

“Space Junkies is the best VR Game 2019 in my opinion, simply because it is the most polished and immersive VR experience I had yet. Many VR developers should learn something from it.”

Do you compete in VR esport tournaments?

Yes I do, I started to compete in February 2019 in the arena shooter Space Junkies. In this game we were unbeaten for the whole Season 3 of VR League and made it up to the world championships in England. During the semi-finals we had to take our first defeat of the year but scored 3rd, winning about 2000€ each while all costs during this travel got covered. Fun fact, at the time of the finals I have been on vacation with a friend in the USA for 2 days. Then had to fly to Europe to play on the stage, just to return 3 days later back to New York. I mean yes traveling that much tired me a lot, but I couldn’t let my friend down on our long term planned holidays.

Other than that I’ve played tournaments in games like Final Assault and Viro Move and always stuck to the top 5 players worldwide. So my expertise is quite wide when it comes to esports, I just love to compete in games.

How does studying and training for esport work along?

Training for normal esports is quite a time consuming task, attending a university and training at the same costs almost all of your free time. Thus we found the CVRE League, a league which suits the schedule of students. We will restrict our official matches to one tournament day every 3–4 weeks, each will last up to 4 hours. It is up to the players how much they want to train, but as everyone is a student here you can score high even with only moderate skill levels.