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Welcome to Butler Esports 2026 Day of Giving!

Who We Are:

Esports Park is the place to be on Butler’s Campus. From casual gameplay with friends, to competitive tournaments across your favorite games, or even hanging out in our lounge area and enjoying Chimba Bowls, there’s something here for everyone. 

 

Throughout a typical day we hold class, team practices for our esports teams, host club events, create content for our players, and serve as a place people can come to unwind throughout the day. With an active rotation of events happening weekly, we’ve had our fair share of big events this year and look forward to even more going forward!

 

Our 2025 Accomplishments:

-Hosted our first Butler Esports camps for local kids to learn about balancing gaming and real life, while building lifelong soft skills!

-Upgraded keyboards, and headsets thanks to our sponsors and donors like you!

-Hosted multiple LAN tournaments on the national scale:

    -Annual Battle for Indiana

    -Rainbow Six Siege tournament, featuring 16 teams across the country with a $4,000 prize pool

    -Multiple Butler Brawls for local Super Smash Bros players

-Hosted speaking events for industry professionals

-Supported our players where 6 out of our 9 teams worked this past semester to make it to playoffs in their division

-Continued to develop our brand, social media content, and streaming success for our teams and major events

-Traveled to two separate LAN events with many of our teams

-And More!

 

Maintaining the Park’s Prestige

What Comes Next: With everything the Esports Park has accomplished these past few years, wear and tear has caught up with many vital pieces of our operations. That’s why for this year’s Day of Giving, we’re looking to raise $20,000 to aid in replenishing our technology. 

With your help, we can restore these daily used items:

-TVs used around the Esports Park to promote our players, teams, events and tenants!

-Mice to help support those in our community who are new to the ecosystem!

-Mousepads to keep quality and prestige a priority in our community!

 

Esports Park’s Variety Stream

For this year’s Day of Giving, our Esports Club will be hosting a 12-hour variety stream! Join as different teams and members of our esports community will play in games and activities live on Twitch! Tune in for all the madness such as (but not limited to): party games, Team Cross-Up (a fun spin where our players will play each other in different game titles that they don’t typically compete in), giveaways and surprises based on donations, pies in faces, and more!   

Don’t miss out on the action!

From 12pm (noon) to 12am (midnight) March 4th-5th:
Link to stream: 
https://www.twitch.tv/butleresports

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Make a BOLD Move! Good Dawgs give back!
We did it Dawgs! Thanks to your generosity we were able to unlock $100,000 for student scholarships. Thank you to everyone for helping to fund this challenge.
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First-Time Donor Challenge
Thanks to our newest donors, we have successfully met the matching challenge, unlocking $20,000 for the Butler Fund for Student Scholarship. By making their first-ever gifts to various areas across campus, our new donors triggered a dollar-for-dollar match that doubles the impact for student financial aid. A special thank you to Deborah Fretz ’70 for her vision in welcoming new supporters and for her incredible investment in our students' success!
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