# Midwest Battleground 2025 Coming to DuPage County

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Midwest Battleground 2025 is coming to DuPage County, Illinois.

**Dates:** February 28th-March 2nd, 2025

**Location:** Sheraton Lisle Naperville & Scrims Esports Center

**Four Collegiate Brackets:**

- Overwatch 2 (16 teams)

- Valorant (16 teams)

- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (16 teams)

- Rocket League (24 teams)

*\*We had 28 teams from 20 different schools and 8 states complete in the Midwest Esports Invitational earlier this year**

**Illinois High School Esports Association (IHSEA) Super Smash Bros. State Tournament:**

- IHSEA will host two different tournaments - crews (5v5) and singles (1v1) at Midwest Battleground

- IHSEA will host four qualifying tournaments at IHSEA schools leading up to our event (started with a school in Bloomington, IL)

- Each qualifying tournament will send two high school teams to the state tournament for crews and will have a running point standings for 1v1

- At the end of the four qualifying tournaments, top 56 singles (1v1) players will qualify for Midwest Battleground along with the 8 high school crew teams

- Last singles (1v1) qualifier will take place on Saturday at Midwest Battleground, 8 more players will qualify, bringing the total to 64 players for the Sunday State final

- Expecting about 200 players on Saturday and about 90-100 players on Sunday

**Open Bracket Tournaments: (approx. 400-500 players across the open tournaments)**

- SSBU (1v1 and 2v2)

- Smash Melee (1v1 and 2v2)

- Smash 64

- Rivals 2 (the game launched October 23rd, about a week ago)

Here are the a few organizations that we are partnering with on hosting the activations, educational sessions as well as the workshops.

**LANFest –** https://lanfest.com/ - non-profit organization that is heavily involved in all aspects of the esports ecosystem

**CS4IL –** https://cs4il.org/ - mission is to bring world-class computer science education to every school in Illinois – K through 12

**Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federations** (NASEF) – https://www.nasef.org/ - non-profit worldwide org. with a mission to provide opportunities for all students to use esports to develop STEAM based skills

**Esports Trade Association** (ESTA) - https://esportsta.org/ - promotes, protects and advances the broader interests of the esports community in United States and Internationally where its chapters are located

**Activations/Workshops:**

- College/University Fair – inviting schools to participate

- BOYC (going to be run by LANFest and the Chicago Chapter)

- Minecraft Workshop (going to be run by Mark and his team at CS4IL) – beginner level, advanced level and teacher’s sessions

- Farmcraft Workshop (going to be run by NASEF)

- Esports directors panel as well as few other educational sessions geared towards collegiate esports athletes, high school esports athletes and parents (run by NASEF and the participating esports directors)

- Vendor/expo area

- Free play area (going to be run by LANFest)

- Friday Happy Hour – 4-6pm (organized by ESTA, we will provide hors d'oeuvres and will have a cash bar)

- Saturday Morning Coffee Connection – 8-10am (organized by ESTA, coffee, etc. will be available at the hotel)

## Related Organizations

- [DuPage Sports Commission](https://www.sportsdestinations.com/destinations/illinois/dupage-sports-commission-31004.md)

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