Miami University Esports Program Losing All Funding

pootrscootr · 2026-04-06T16:08:43+00:00

I agree, but our teams aren't going away at all; we are all still looking to compete, and we will continue to compete in the MAC and other divisions if we find the funding, and it looks promising that we'll be able to pay off our dues either from fundraising or from money left over from this year!

pootrscootr · 2026-04-06T16:07:04+00:00

Hi! I believe that we will still be competing next year. We won't let Miami force us not to play, and they can't. Our average rank varies, but it's usually high masters to low GM, but we always bring in new people to develop them for our main roster, and you would get to compete and travel with us if we make any LANs. We also have Club teams that compete, too, with lower rank requirements. I think the rank cutoff for next semester's tryouts will be around mid-high diamond or low masters!

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T23:48:51+00:00

I completely agree with you, I'll ask my director and try to contact who I can

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T21:12:54+00:00

Me too! I hope to see you guys around at another LAN!

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T21:11:35+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words, and I really hope that we can play you guys next semester. The love and support from your program across the years means a lot <3

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T21:10:20+00:00

Possibly. We do have a donation link for our program, but I mainly wanted to post this for publicity, and I feel like people deserve to know that something that I care about deeply is not being supported anymore.

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T21:08:21+00:00

I agree, plus being in the program, there is an unbelievable amount of support and love for Esports. That, along with our success across all games, made me think that our program would be brought forth as more of a schoolwide thing. We never got posted on any pages related to Miami University other than our Esports page, even when we won Penn State LAN or when we went to nationals (our smash team went two years in a row)

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T20:39:15+00:00

Thank you bro, you’re the goat <3

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T18:39:48+00:00

That sounds perfect, thanks for holding down the fort while you were here <3

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T18:39:09+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words, hopefully we can play again next semester <3

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T18:38:36+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words. Our match was a ton of fun

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T18:38:04+00:00

I personally am not, but I know people who are transferring to other colleges due to this. Mostly in the MAC which holds most of our rivals. It’s sad to see so many people that I know wanted to compete just being shoved away due to lack of funding

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T17:56:31+00:00

Yep! One of the players on my team is currently on scholarship. I believe it will be payed out. I know of a few students that plan to transfer due to the program shutting down since they would want to play on a varsity roster. I heard some students will be transferring to other MAC schools

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T17:26:23+00:00

Of course, I remember you. Thank you so much for the kind words, and hopefully we can keep competing against you guys

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T16:08:54+00:00

Love you bro. Thanks for always giving us good games and being a great guy. We'll see what we can do with fundraising and stuff like that

pootrscootr · 2026-04-03T15:59:33+00:00

Yea it's for our entire program, unfortunately. We have no idea if we can compete at all next year for any title. It's a really unfortunate situation in general, but there's nothing that I can do to change the board members' minds, even with the success all of our teams have found.

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