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what on earth would a real-life gaming school look like well we're here at yumping vocational high school in talian City Taiwan where they are currently accepting applicants for the brand-new gaming program that will officially open its doors in September of 2018 so I guess we're gonna find out after this message from our sponsor private Internet access it's the VPN that's entirely self-explanatory it makes your access to the internet more private look at the link in the video description to learn more it's been a long time since I've had to go to the principal's office and it was never voluntarily but as a parent I've got a lot of questions walking into something like this but while I might have started out thinking excuse me gaming school I learned a lot during my meeting with the principal first of all young ping is one of 400 vocational schools in Taiwan and is now ranked in the top ten with around 6,000 students so they do a lot more than just gaming and I also learned that at this time there isn't a full-time gaming track any of the 100 or so students who will be accepted into the gaming program will be expected to pick another of the vocations they offer like automotive repair food graphic design or tourism as sort of like a double major so to make the obvious joke it is not all fun and games and the gaming program will be very demanding to ensure that students have the right mindset not only are the administrators and coaches going to be looking at traditional acceptance requirements like grades on Taiwan's standardized tests but they're also going to be interviewing applicants and even yes you knew this one was coming conducting tryouts with their gaming coaches to evaluate their skills and that is skills with a Zed now the school already has an extracurricular eSports team with a coaching staff of retired players and they're building partnerships we have affiliated local teams like J team and MS that will allow students to apply for eSports internships but to make the experience more school like they're gonna have to think outside the box a little bit and beef up their staff to cover not just how to play video games but also a broad range of gaming industry related subjects so as a private school they have the luxury to build their curriculum so we'll learn to build and troubleshoot their pcs they'll study the different PC components and their effects on gaming performance they will learn principles of game streaming on platforms like twitch and even attend classes for less obvious things like the history of eSports and gaming and some PR and marketing fundamentals so inside here is one of their regular classrooms where gaming program students will learn traditional core subjects like Chinese math English and history and also where for example a tourism double major student would study Japanese but that is not to say that they won't also have a real bona fide overwatch class where they'll cover math analysis character pro's and con's individual strategies and techniques and the teamwork and communication principles that are necessary for success in the highly competitive eSports scene along with yes actual homework assignments like achieve and maintain gold rank and overwatch as you can imagine it would probably be beneficial to have sessions in a computer lab to practice the techniques that are being presented by the instructor and I don't mean a computer lab like this one I'm talking about one like this this room cost three hundred thousand dollars to build and they'll be adding another one just like it before the students arrive in the fall and then this kind of computer lab would have been my dream in high school there are about 25 gaming machines in here equipped with core i5 processors and gtx 1066 gig video cards they've got a vr gaming space right smack dab in the middle of the room and they've got a fantastic streaming setup in here including RGB tout gaming themes Dacor pan tilt zoom cameras for the players and the commentators and a quad TV setup down at the end for spectating in person like these guys do not mess around they've got like 75 Hertz monitors Cherry MX blue gaming keyboards pretty much freaking works but as cool as it all is I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of you still think video game high school makes more sense as a web video series than as an actual thing for you I've got a challenge why don't you try thinking about it a slightly different way so in the same way but not everyone who enrolls in a cooking vocational program will become a world-famous chef not everyone who enrolls in this gaming program will become a champion eSports player and that's okay because there's a lot more to the gaming industry as a whole than just playing games competitively these days gaming bars are growing in popularity gaming and food program anyone gaming hotels are starting to spring up gaming and tourism sounds like a great background for that kind of work and the gaming organizations that used to subsist on scraps are now playing tournaments in major sports arenas with organizations like Epic Games committing a hundred million dollars of funding in prize money towards their games it's crazy even within the computer hardware industry remember these are the companies that make gaming gear I have personally experienced a huge need for representatives who actually understand gaming and gamers to help their companies address the growing market that they represent you can learn about gaming after you enter the workforce but if you know that that's what you want to do with your life then this whole thing here starts to make a lot more sense and I still haven't even mentioned the connections element this is a huge and often undervalued part of choosing the right school attending a vocational school means that you graduate with a large cohort of passionate people with similar aspirations who can work together to get into the careers that they want and support each other as they enter the workforce so I walked into here a skeptic and I still have my doubts I'm sure there's a lot of work to be done but it makes far more sense to me walking out than it did walking in so I guess I got taken to school today ha ha ha ha terrible but you know what's not terrible our sponsor master up is back with another deal this time on the Sennheiser open-back HD v 8x Jubilee headphones these were tuned by axial growl of Sennheiser and mass drop based on feedback from the community they feature new 150 ohm drivers and a colorway inspired by the HD 5 ATS they're clear fast with a dynamic sound profile and they've got a glossy black headband elliptical ear cups and replaceable soft the lure ear pads we've got a detachable 6 foot cable and you can get yours today at the link in the video description thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the 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