Yes! For the 2023 academic year our delivery partner, Te Papatipu Matihiko is working with local government and funding groups to subsidize entry fees.

However, your school may still choose to charge fees to cover costs of uniforms, team managers, and travel to the national tournament in Christchurch. 

There is none!

Esports isn’t about the money, and this competition is your opportunity to have fun, make connections, and compete for pride and glory while representing your school.

We may introduce non-cash prizes in the future, but our first priority is on a fun competitive experience.

We hope so! We’re working really hard to organise a venue for another epic live final to follow up from last year and we will post updates as soon as this is confirmed.

We take into consideration several factors when choosing the games to include each year in NZSS Esports.

• Accessibility
  • We love games that are free to play and available on multiple devices so whether you have a custom build gaming PC with an RTX 4090, a PS4 or a humble mobile phone – you can still compete!
• Publisher Permission
  • Every game has a publisher or developer who has invested a lot of time, money and effort into building the games you love. We include games from publishers who have given us their trust and permission to include their games.
• Esports Enabled
  • We include games that are designed with competition in mind that help us deliver fun and smooth competitive experiences.

If you feel there are games that meet all of these requirements that you’d like to see included next year, reach out to us or write to the publisher and let us know! We’re always working hard to include more titles every year.

Yes. Your registration must include the contact information of a valid teacher in charge who is aware of the competition.

If you feel a team has cheated during your match, please open a ticket in the competition discord, or notify your match admin.

If you would like to make a complaint about a team, player, admin, teacher or tournament organiser, please go to https://www.nzesports.org.nz/complaints-help to submit a formal complaint.

• Competition will begin Week 2 of Term 2 and progress to the end of Term 3.
• No games will be played during school holidays.
• Games start at 5PM on the designated game night
• Your detailed draw can be found in your registered email, or in the NZSS Discord

Of course! There is nothing stopping your school from competing in multiple esports competitions.

However it’s important to know that NZSS Esports is the only official and regulated competition supported by the NZ Government.

This competition was created to ensure that student competitors can compete in a safe environment where their only interactions are with police vetted and trained officials, student data is not sold or mishandled, and the competition is not run for commercial profit.

If you are going to compete in a commercial league, look out for the Accredited Tournament Organiser badge to make sure the operator is an experienced New Zealand operator.

Each game has a ruleset (which will be available on the 24th of March)  that includes the game settings that must be followed on competition night. If you are being asked to play on different settings please notify an admin before the start of the match.

All important information will be sent out via email, but we recommend you join the official Discord channel for the most up to date information.

There is a place for competitors to interact, and private channels for teachers to connect and help us improve the competition in the future.

Luckily, for Fortnite or eFootball you only need one player to compete!

For Rocket League, you can ask to join another school near you with written permission from the school you will be representing.