PlayVS, legally Play Versus Inc., is a Los Angeles company that runs the leading scholastic esports platform in North America. It organizes and operates competitive video game leagues for middle schools, high schools and colleges, handling team creation, scheduling, matchmaking, standings and record-keeping. Alongside competition it sells a classroom curriculum product and a college recruiting tool. It works with game publishers including Riot Games, Psyonix, EA and Blizzard to license the titles played in its leagues.
What sets it apart
Turns esports into a school-sanctioned activity by giving educators the same infrastructure traditional athletics has -- season scheduling, matchmaking, standings and eligibility -- plus curriculum and recruiting, rather than leaving competition to ad hoc club play.