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The esports ecosystem encompasses not just players and teams, but also the facilities, gaming lounges, marketing, and tourism and hospitality sectors.<\/p>\n<h3>Explosion of interest<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaming tournaments go back more than 20 years, but the industry has exploded since the early 2010s, Tschacher said. And, while large tournament events aren\u2019t frequent in Milwaukee yet, he is betting that the influence of the alliance will stimulate that trend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such a catalyst has helped other U.S. cities gain ground in attracting the different facets of competitive gaming in esports, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI do think that the alliance serves as a pretty critical differentiator between us and others at this moment,\u201d said Tschacher, who also operates the Chalker Group, a business consulting company. \u201cCities like Atlanta, Kansas City and Seattle have grown their ecosystems around esports by forming a similar resource.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tschacher, who calls himself a \u201cretro\u201d gamer, still likes to play the games he grew up enjoying. But his real reason behind helping to cultivate esports in the state is his 3-year-old son, he said. \u201cI\u2019m interested in knowing where the technology will go during my son\u2019s formative years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Involved in Startup Challenge<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And he has some experience in building this kind of initiative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While at 51ÁÔÆæ, Tschacher was one of the first students involved in the Startup Challenge, a program offered through 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center that trains students in the basics of starting a business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He teamed up with Jeremy Tiedt and Justin Bohler to launch a business called <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/lubar-entrepreneurship-center\/innovators\/mycombine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MyCombine<\/a> in 2008. Partnering with Zybeck Sports, the organization that provides the NFL their testing equipment, MyCombine gave sports teams and athletes of any ability the opportunity to test their skills using state-of-the-art equipment. Participants could also store their data and use it for future comparison. The three sold the enterprise in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now Tschacher is a mentor not only to students in the Startup Challenge but also to teams participating in the 51ÁÔÆæ-led I-Corps Milwaukee program, which helps faculty and students in the region turn ideas developed in the laboratory into commercial products.<\/p>\n<h3>Promoting STEM education<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the MKEsports Alliance, Tschacher also sees esports as an opportunity to promote STEM education \u2013 the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math \u2013 areas that students otherwise may not consider. \u201cWhen we say we have a gaming element to this, all of a sudden you have more people at the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The alliance has partnered with New Horizons of Wisconsin last year to create an esports and IT workforce development \u201cbadge\u201d program, where participants who complete the training can show potential employers their competencies. That program has already produced 28 graduates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now he is exploring how esports might enliven K-12 education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with New Horizons and Milwaukee Public Schools, Tschacher helped develop a summer camp program that introduces school-age children to a host of job opportunities around skills that help bring competitive gaming to life. The first such camp took place over the summer at MPS, and another is slated for the fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGaming is much more than controllers, players and a screen,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the hardware and the software and lots of other aspects of information technology. But it\u2019s also all these wrap-around jobs that are necessary to make esports succeed. 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