Games Without Frontiers launches first ‘esport’ for business

Developers of award-winning and revolutionary business simulation games, Games Without Frontiers (GWOF),  has announced the first-ever ‘Esport’ For Business, The ROCKET Challenge (TRC), with a $10,000 cash prize offered to one team winner from anywhere in the world. From November through mid-December 2020, companies, universities, business schools, or non-affiliated groups who think they have got what it takes to win The ROCKET Challenge can decide to enter into this exciting tournament. The winner will be announced on December 18, 2020, and 10 percent of profits from the challenge will be donated to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Played live online and over a 4.5-hour runtime, The ROCKET Challenge will allow participants to optimize a simulated business while solving increasingly complex problems with each repeated 26-minute play representing 26 weeks (two quarters) of the calendar. They must quickly improve how they work together as a team and establish best working practices, continuously reviewing and updating their methods. 

“We believe that businesses and organizations with a competitive spirit will love playing The ROCKET Challenge,” Tim Dew, GWOF CEO, said.

“Obviously teams will want to enter to win the extraordinary cash prize, but we will also urge both private and public organizations to purchase the ROCKET-remote game as an indispensable team-building experiential tool and one that encourages empathetic working practices. The product’s commercial relevance leverages the low price per gameplay, and therefore it represents a high-value proposition for businesses, independent of The ROCKET Challenge itself,” Nadine Pierce, VP, Commercial, added.

(WBJ)