Esports CTE CHallenges

The contributions of the support staff in our schools’ organizations have meaning, too!

Our CTE Challenges allow students to showcase their work AND get college and career ready!

Each challenge includes a six-step documentation process:

  • Background: career exploration

  • Research: project specifics

  • Analyze: practical logistics

  • Plan: make the decisions

  • Develop: implementation

  • Reflect: review how it went

Educator resources are available for each field!

The winner of each contest and their coach will have the opportunity for a call with a professional mentor to review their work and to ask questions about the industry.

Winning work will be showcased at the MOSEF state finals or featured on the MOSEF website.

Challenge Overview

Full challenges guidelines are available to registered coaches.

  • The rapid growth of esports at the high school level means it’s much easier to host regional in-person events at a location that’s geographically accessible. But these events are still a lot of work! Your task is to create a one-day, in-person regional tournament for our season titles.

    Due dates:

    • Fall 2025: October 31, 2025

    • Spring 2026: April 10, 2026

  • Create the look for a MOSEF Season! This is an opportunity for a student to create MOSEF’s 2024-25 competitive fall and spring season design packages. The design will be used on merchandise, promotions, and stream packages.

    Due dates:

    • Fall 2025: September 26, 2025

    • Spring 2026: March 27, 2026

    No stream is complete without the perfect stream package! Your task is to design a stream package for your team.

    Due dates:

    • Fall 2025: October 31, 2025

    • Spring 2026: April 10, 2026

  • Though an esports athlete isn’t likely to suffer a concussion or a broken bone from playing in a match, debilitating injury is still a possibility for a gamer who doesn’t prepare. Additionally, a constantly sedentary lifestyle isn’t good for anyone! Your task is to design a health and wellness routine for your team.

    Due date: November 28, 2025

  • For a new scholastic esports program, one of the main roadblocks is getting all of the machines running all of the games. After that, your team has to keep all of the peripherals working while playing, streaming, and competing for available outlets and jacks and bandwidth with the team on the other side of the lab. Your task is to create a manual for new esports programs describing the requirements for MOSEF’s competitive titles.

    Due date: September 26, 2025

  • Esports and Discord go hand in hand. You can find a bot for almost every task you can think of in your server… but what about the ones you can’t? Your task is to identify a need in an esports Discord server and create a bot to fill it.

    Due date: April 25, 2026

  • While family and friends are always excited to watch their favorite team play, they might not always understand what’s happening in the game. Shoutcasters can provide both a personalization of the events on the screen and an explanation of the technical details. Your task is to shoutcast for one of your school’s MOSEF matches and submit the recording.

    Due dates:

    • Fall 2025: October 31, 2025

    • Winter 2026: January 16, 2026

    • Spring 2026: April 10, 2026

  • The first impression many potential fans get of a streamer or esports organization is their stream branding. As a content creator, you might be asked to develop an intro for client videos (or your own!) that will catch attention as well as accurately depict the brand’s desired overall image. Your task is to create a video intro for your team’s streams and on-demand content.

    Due date: March 27, 2026

  • An important part of playing a game is analyzing how it went with the team afterward and creating a practice plan and strategy based on that information. Your task is to record a VOD review for your MOSEF team that follows the detailed requirements.

    Due date: October 17, 2025