Are you a video gamer looking to attend college? You may be able to receive a new scholarship because of the video game League of Legends if you're willing to move to Kentucky.

University of Pikeville in Kentucky is making video games an official sport and it's started offering scholarships to gamers in the fall. TWCC reports that Pikeville joins the list of a few colleges that now offers a scholarship due to gaming:

The move makes the University of Pikeville one of only a few schools in the nation to provide scholarships to those who play "League of Legends," a multiplayer online battle arena game, according to WYMT-TV.

"It's actually becoming a worldwide trend," said Bruce Parsons, Pikeville's new media director. "This game is five-on-five competitive play. It takes skill, practice and a lot of teamwork. I think there are going to be a lot of students, both nationwide and international, who are going to look at our university who wouldn't have before," Parsons said of Pikeville, a small school."

The school already has a coach for this gamer team, and the school announced it plans on offering at least 20 scholarships when it begins the program this coming fall. If you can't make it into this school, Robert Morris University in Chicago has made this game an official sport and offers scholarships as well.

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