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University of Kentucky and Gen.G join forces to host invitational tournament

The University of Kentucky (UK) has joined forces with multinational esports organisation Gen.G to host an invitational competition involving other universities.

The University of Kentucky Esports Invitational will see a total of nine universities compete in League of Legends, Rocket League, and VALORANT tournaments.

Running from March 12th until March 14th, student casters will provide commentary for the tournaments which will be broadcast on the University of Kentucky’s Twitch channel.

Heath Price, Chief Information Officer at UK, spoke on the news in a release: “Our students continue to be passionate about esports, so we are thrilled to be able to invite other schools to participate in hopes of providing a unique way to level up their competitive skills.