Edmonton school’s e-sports athletes go mouse-to-mouse with province’s best

There were no balls, pucks, sticks or high-performance shoes for the athletes. Instead, there were desktops, laptops, ergonomic keyboards and very large mouse pads. Inside the computer lab at Vimy Ridge Academy in Edmonton, athletes prepared for the tournament of the year. They had spent months getting ready for the Alberta Esports Championship, a provincewide video-game competition for high-school and junior-high students. With more than 200 competitors representing 27 schools playing three different games, the tournament bills itself as the largest of its kind in Canada.