Freedom Schools have decided to drop athletics and go with eSports as a result of declining enrollment. To most, this would seem a great loss, but it signals the beginning of a new era and a way to level the playing field for rural communities.

Thanks to an article in GoPioneer Magazine, I have been brought up to speed about eSports.

You may be among those old enough to remember the 1972 video game Pong, which was a single-user one-dimensional arcade game with a tennis-like format. By 1972, Stanford University students used a next generation game called Spacewar to stage the first competition...