Idaho Esports Association, Inc

50 Jeffres Lane

Sandpoint Idaho 83864

Location: Virtual https://meet.google.com/kke-etew-tmy

Time: October 23, 2024 3:30 Pacific/4:30 Mountain

Call to Order

Attendance

• Dalton Hawkins
• Doc Haskell - BSU
• Nate Sarrazolla
• Mitch Young
• Gericke Kohn
• Veronica Roper - BSU
• Riley Boyd - BSU

Approvals

Reports

New Business

• Exclaim Esports Apparel discussion
  • If kick back, can this pay for a teams fee?
• Fortnite
  • Official - Accounts start Dec 1
    • Can request more accounts - takes a week
  • Announcement -
  • Mode
    • Trios
    • Approved for Building
    • Need Approval for Nobuild if wanted
    • Seems easy to add now that we are in
  • Limits For schools
    • Max 100 (99 for trios) players per match
      • Duos = 50 teams/per match
      • Trios = 33 teams/per match
    • 3 Game accounts
      • Duos = 150 teams
      • Trios = 99 teams
    • Apex Legends - Rigby
  • Cost - $30/team 3 sub
  • Competition day(s) & Host Schools - Monday following Mountain Smash or RL
    • Bishop Kelly
    • Sandpoint
    • Eagle Rock
    • Rigby?
    • Colleges?
  • Renting/loaning out account
    • Let’s hold on to them for now, let them do as a tryout on certain days
  • Streaming
    • IEA Twitch only - Other schools can Host this stream
      • Spectator view
      • No school spectator cam
      • Match by match choice of who is being streamed
    • Branded Assets
    • Tricky Spectator cam
• Mario Kart 8 for HS
  • Non-state event. Open to next year being a state event
  • 4v4 Not on a smash day
• SSBU Solo
  • Non-state event
  • How does reporting happen?
  • If after regular smash, theoretical in school location already
  • Smart queue?
  • Fall event
• PlayVS final exchange
• IETA topics/plan
  • Dalton going via District PD approval so has to walk out with some stuff not esports related
  • Kohn trying to go via District PD approval – will update status
  • Session 1: Esports 101 - Getting Started
  • Session 2: Esports 201 - Now what?
    • Potential for us to do multiple sessions for each topic
      • Everyone needed?
• Trial smart queue system?
  • Does this change the idea of mountain and pacific leagues?
  • Do we offer free or discounted games during spring?
    • HSEL: Apex & Rocket League Free
    • Does this dilute our groups
    • Like Fall trials could be used to gauge interest without having to create every week.
  • Street Fighter and CF25 for spring something kinda casual
  • Solution for teams that are just getting started and/or can’t commit to the whole season
    • Intramural day?
    • Cheaper for $5
    • NO STATE
• Rules Scrums
  • 4 participants and IEA chair to break ties
  • Captains (Junior or senior), coaches eligible to participate
  • IEA can overrule anything (primarily for preventing obvious favoritism)
• General League/org rules - anything needed
  • Specifically say must be hosted/sponsored by a school in Idaho
• Mitch - end of year coming up, do we need to approve any tax software to purchase?
• New teams
  • Lake City?
  • West Jefferson BPA?
  • Canyon Springs Alternative – Chad Lawson
    • 5th year seniors policy?
      • Must be on track to graduate per school
  • Taylor’s Crossing Public Charter – Austin Hansen
  • Snake River High School – Kent Dance
  • American Heritage – Josh Siqueros
• Local Tournaments
  • District 91 Southeast Regional Invitational tentatively Jan 25
    • Use LeagueOS?
      • Yes if you want to
  • Report on Ririe October 19th event.
  • Fortnite Trial
    • Run through LOS
• Office hours to help schools get LeagueOS setup for schools
  • Wednesdays starting in December
• Gem Prep using LeagueOS instance to run seasons
• Discord server cleanup
• Spring 2025
  • Welcome back meeting January 15th
  • Registration opening day January 15th
  • Competition Start day February 10th
    • Winter Invitational: Weekend before BSU ‘virtual’ and in-person Jan 31 and Feb 1, can move
  • Length of season 7 weeks with 1 bye (8 weeks total)
    • Playoffs following keeping same schedule
  • Games
    • High school
      • Apex - Virtual state
      • Valorant
      • Rocket League
      • Overwatch 2
      • SSBU
      • Fortnite - Virtual state
      • Potentials (casuals)
        • CFB 25
        • SF6
        • Racing Game?
    • Middle school
      • SSBU
      • MK8
      • Val
      • RL
    • Combined
      • Apex
      • League of Legends
    • Days of week
      • M - Smash, Fortnite
      • T - Val
      • W - RL, Apex
      • R - OW, MK 8
      • F - League of Legends if it has a season.
  • Leagues
    • Pacific and Mountain
      • School end time is primary factor (20 minute buffer)
      • Can they petition
  • Start time(s)
    • 3:45 Mountain for Mountain
    • 3:45 Pacific for Pacific
    • When the match should start, any thing after this is for technical issues (10 minute grace period)
  • Self-selected bye week again
  • Invoice
    • Day - Feb 24
    • Process (via PayPal and IEA email)
    • Ask to be paid within 2 weeks
      • VHEL invoices after week 3 teams can drop before w/o paying
    • “Scholarship” for schools/players who can’t afford
  • Conflicts
    • On duty IEA admin for each game
    • Volunteer staff (college players)?
  • Playoffs
    • Days
    • Format
    • Seeding for playoffs
    • Seeding for state
    • Restrictions?
      • 1 team per school?
      • Send them all?
  • Finals
    • May 15 - 17, 2025
      • BSU looking for some support - possible sponsors incoming
      • Know anyone/companies connect with Riley ?Boyd?
    • Apex and Fortnite - virtual
      • Lame but allows for more matches and no one ‘favored’ by getting to use BSU and others don’t.
    • Trophies
      • 1, 2, and 3
        • Traditional colors
        • Same design as last year?
        • Order from BK again?
        • Traveling trophy?
          • Something ridiculously massive/awesome
      • Player medals?
      • MVP
        • Google form with list of ‘core’ starting
          • One response per school
        • Make an all-star team
          • 1st team All Idaho
          • 2nd team All Idaho
          • etc
        • School coach has ultimate veto rights of their player
      • Academics (how do we improve participation/qualify)
        • 3v3 RL easier than 5 player Val
      • Coach of the year
      • Player of the year
    • Set expectations of BSU stage
      • Lower seeds on stage
      • Winner stays
    • Remote venues
      • Are we ready for this discussion? CEI, UI, CSI?
    • Smash
      • ExtraMile
      • Realms
      • Upstairs movie theater - Boyd currently working on
      • Nextdoor concert hall
    • Raffle/giveaway this year?
      • Lego Battle Bus
      • ROG Ally/Lenovo Legion Go/Gaming Laptop (lenovo sponsor???)
      • Sell raffle tickets
      • Free entry if you follow IEA twitch and 5 schools?
      • Pass the Above the Line Quiz ;)
• Colleges with programs - satellite or rotating? Can they handle?
  • BSU
  • UI
  • LCSC
  • CEI
  • CSI
  • ISU
• Above the Line Episode
  • IEA assistance - Views, comments, subs
  • Make video recording use very transparent and open to people

Old Business

• ISEA
  • Nintendo - “Have fun and do whatever, not really helping with anything”
  • Umbrella liability insurance?
• Smash Bruddas
  • Move to 3v3?
  • At least one unhappy coach
• ByteSpeed
  • No communication with
• Fall Trials season
  • 1 player for college football
  • Not advertised very well, try again next year.
    • Not too Late/reframe as help for tryouts?
• Getting our own switches
  • Pelican Case for said switches
  • No hardware support from Nintendo is general consensus
  • No software support either
• How do we start making a grant system for our schools to get gear?
• Nate - Highland’s Rocket League trophy?
  • Sent!!
• Bluelight glasses sponsor?
• Swag bag
  • BSU might have a lead

Executive Session

Adjournment