NYIT is one of the many colleges that, in recent years, have created video game teams, and Sharon has now seen the facilities at a number of them -- UC Berkeley and Columbia College (in Missouri) come to mind. NYIT's team was formed within the last couple of years. It was founded by Elieser Duran (class of 2017), who still runs the team -- cleverly dubbed the CyBears (in contrast to the school's traditional teams, which are the Bears). I'd also be remiss if I failed to note that the CyBears recently won the East Coast Conference's Overwatch championship
This CyBears' new arena includes a room off the library with 14 computers, and another room where spectators can watch the game onscreen. Duran did mention to me that there are plans for a bigger arena with forty computers.
Duran offered that Sharon can come back and see the facilities, and maybe interact with the student players at a future date.
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