LEARFIELD and Digital Arts Announce LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship That includes EA SPORTS Madden NFL 23

Registration Open to Faculty College students Nationwide; Competitors Begins on September 17 for the $150,000 Prize Pool

PLANO, Texas and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. —At present, LEARFIELD, a media, knowledge and know-how companies chief in intercollegiate athletics, and Digital Arts (NASDAQ: EA), a worldwide chief in interactive leisure, introduced the LevelNext collegiate esports league will play host to a nationwide competitors that includes EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 23. Registration for the 2022 LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship is now open to varsity college students at greater than 2,500 colleges nationwide.

Kicking off on September 17, school college students throughout the nation will go head-to-head in 5 weeks of Madden NFL 23 competitors. The LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship, which contains an everyday season, playoffs, final likelihood qualifier, and championship, will maintain the ultimate 4 matchups the week of October 17. Through the dwell broadcast finals on October 20, the highest collegiate participant can be topped the 2022 LevelNext Madden Nationwide Champion on behalf of his or her college. The LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship is free to enter and includes a money prize pool of $150,000, $50,000 of which can be awarded immediately to twenty campus esports packages by a Twitter competitors.

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“Faculty esports continues to develop in curiosity and at scale, and we’re proud to deliver EA SPORTS Madden NFL 23 into our common fall LevelNext competitors,” stated Rick Barakat, LEARFIELD Govt Vice President and Managing Director, Media & Partnerships Group. “We worth the collaboration with EA on LevelNext – our third yr since co-launching the league, now broadly often known as house to the nationwide school championship for Madden and different EA titles.”

“The LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship reaches followers across the nation by its distinctive skill to pair the love of soccer with esports engagement on the school stage,” stated Andrew Echanique, Madden NFL Aggressive Gaming Commissioner. “Madden continues to showcase its skill to develop the game as we simply had our most profitable viewership yr in historical past final season. We sit up for constructing upon this momentum in partnership with LEARFIELD.”

To reinforce the faculty esports expertise, the LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship will characteristic shoutcasters, superstar friends, and institutional radio play-by-play announcers. The LevelNext social channels throughout Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok may also add interactive broadcast components to boost the viewer expertise by way of aggressive updates, highlights, and participant exchanges. This yr’s winner of the LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship can be assured a seat in EA’s Madden Championship Sequence Final Probability Qualifier.

LevelNext competitions are free to register and accessible to all college students at the moment attending a four-year accredited college. It’s the largest intercollegiate esports league and residential to the nationwide school championship for Madden. Launched in October 2020, LevelNext combines official athletic marks and promotion, sports activities broadcast manufacturing and content material worth, money prizes to gamers and esports golf equipment, and interesting competitors to ship pleasure to hundreds of thousands of school esports followers. This easy-to-follow, centralized construction is primed to speed up esports development by unifying aggressive play for all school college students and enabling them to formally characterize their colleges on the street to a nationwide championship. Annually, LevelNext options at the least considered one of EA’s aggressive gaming franchises.

All nationwide and weekly programming for the LevelNext Madden Championship can be broadcast on LevelNext’s official Twitch channel, with further shops and places to be later introduced. For extra info on the official guidelines and to register for the 2022 LevelNext Madden Nationwide Championship, go to https://levelnextesports.com/madden23. Registration closes on September 12.

About LEARFIELD

LEARFIELD is a media, knowledge, and know-how companies chief in intercollegiate athletics. The corporate unlocks the worth of school sports activities for manufacturers and followers by an omnichannel platform with progressive content material and commerce options. LEARFIELD companies embrace licensing and collegiate sports activities properties’ multimedia sponsorship administration; publishing, audio, digital and social media; knowledge analytics and insights; ticketing software program; and ticket gross sales, premium seating, and fundraising companies; branding; campus-wide enterprise and sponsorship improvement; and venue know-how techniques. Since 2008, it has served as title sponsor for NACDA’s acclaimed LEARFIELD Administrators’ Cup, recognizing athletic departments throughout all divisions.

About Digital Arts

 Digital Arts (NASDAQ: EA) is a worldwide chief in digital interactive leisure. The Firm develops and delivers video games, content material and on-line companies for Web-connected consoles, cellular units and private computer systems. In fiscal yr 2022, EA posted GAAP internet income of roughly $7 billion. Headquartered in Redwood Metropolis, California, EA is acknowledged for a portfolio of critically acclaimed, high-quality manufacturers resembling EA SPORTS™ FIFA, Battlefield™, Apex Legends™, The Sims™, Madden NFL, Want for Pace™, Titanfall™, Vegetation vs. Zombies™ and F1®. Extra details about EA is on the market at www.ea.com/information.

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