Contender eSport has opened a new gaming center in northwest Houston, a with a grand opening planned for late October.
Co-owners Erin and Adam Berger say that there is another franchisee in Ohio, with 14 others planning to open across the U.S. “We’ll be the second one in the United States to open,” Erin Berger told the Houston Chronicle.
The center will have 34 PCs, 16 X-Box consoles, and 8 Nintendo Switches and will be able to host eSports tournaments. It will rent games at hourly rates and have rentable party rooms.
“On regular days, people can come and go and play whatever games they want on those PCs and consoles,” Berger said. “For the actual events, we usually will do one specific game. So, we’ll do an Overwatch League tournament, or a League of Legends, or Super Smash Brothers night where the entire tournament focuses around that one particular game.”
Berger described her husband “as a gamer who has followed eSports for probably the last 10 years. He’s not a competitive gamer but follows the industry. He noticed that many high schools are starting to have eSports teams and some universities are offering scholarships in eSports.”
But it’s not just kinds who are interested, she said. “I even had one older gentleman ask if he could create a geriatric team. Everybody’s welcome. If they’re interested in a game, they’ve got a spot here.”
