Due to the weekend being super busy with Grand Am also happening, hotel rooms are super limited. We recommend booking hotels ASAP. Below are two room block options that we have been able to secure. They are available on a first come first serve basis. We suggest that if these don’t work, you also look at hotels on your own in the surrounding area including Grand Forks, East Grand Forks, Fargo, and Crookston. We recognize that some of those locations are not ideal, and we apologize for any inconvenience. It is the responsibility of each team, team member, and general manager to get the rooms you will need booked and paid for.
MY PLACE HOTEL-GRAND FORKS, ND
1315 South 42nd Street
Grand Forks, United States
Click this link to book rooms: Here
AmeriVu Inn & Suites – Grand Forks
3051 S 34th St
Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201
To book with the room block, please call them and reference “Fenworks Esports Tournament” and they should be able to get you with the room blocks.
Registration will begin on Friday, March 31st, at 10:00 am at the Alerus Center. The arena will open to the general public at 11:00 am. We will have tables in the entrance of the arena to register the students and teams. Opening ceremonies will begin at 12:00 pm.
We will have a bag for each student participant at the registration table with a jersey, name tag, and some fun swag! If a student is bringing their own equipment, they will be required to have it checked at registration.
Fenworks will be providing a PC set-up that all players will be playing on. This includes a mouse, keyboard, and headset. Fenworks allows and strongly suggest players bring their own peripherals, so they feel more comfortable playing. This extends to mice, keyboards, controllers, and headsets. Players should not bring monitors or entire set-ups or consoles. Fenworks will have a few controllers available for players that need them, but it is strongly suggested if you require a controller to please bring your own an ensure you have the correct connecter to be used on a PC and that the controller is compatible with a PC.
For all the equipment that a student brings they should be fully capable and ready to set their equipment up in a timely manner and know if any software is needed and be read to download it. They will be allowed to do this but must be ready to do it quickly. All outside equipment will be inspected by Fenworks staff prior to use in tournament play.
The state tournament will be held in the main arena, and we will be sharing it with the Grand Am basketball tournament. All players that might feel overstimulated with sounds are encouraged to bring noise cancelling headphones/earmuffs. Fenworks will have a few pairs for students to borrow.
For all titles, players should be prepared to alter any settings/keybinds they’ll need (in-game), in the case that they are not carried over from their primary account. Players are required to have their account information ready to be used so they can log into the games. Information about each specific game can be found below:
All brackets will be played in a double elimination format. Once a team loses for the first time they will be dropped to the “elimination bracket”. Matches in the elimination bracket will be best of one. The finals of a bracket will be the undefeated team vs the team that makes it out of the elimination bracket.
In the final match, should the team from the elimination bracket win, the undefeated team still needs to lose again to be eliminated, thus, a final game will be played to determine the champion. Should the undefeated team win, the team from the elimination bracket will have received their second loss, eliminating them and no further games will be played with the undefeated team being champion.
Brackets will be released via email and on the Fenworks website.
Last Updated: March 7, 2023