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HPU's Esports Arena is approximately 3,000 sf., and located downtown, on the water at Aloha Tower Marketplace. The Arena features cutting-edge gaming PCs (RTX 3080 GPUs), next gen consoles, virtual reality stations, casual seating and viewing areas, and outside viewing. As Hawaii's first esports arena, we are proud to open our doors for community and corporate events, field trips, gaming tournaments, learning and networking events and more. We also sell snacks and drinks at the front desk!
The HPU Esports Arena is excited to host your next event. Past events include: Hawaii Esports State Championships in Middle and High School, the largest FGC scene and monthly tournaments in Hawaii (Smash Bros, SF, Tekken, Guilty Gear and more), League of Legends and Valorant randoms and cash tournaments, Esports watch parties, Corporate Hackathons for local vendors, Esports Summer Camps, Twitch Hawaii Community Meetup, Women in Gaming, and much more.
Customers, students, and gamers wishing to play games that require a Username or Login (Fortnite, Rocket League, Minecraft, Roblox, Apex Legends, Valorant, League of Legends) will need to use their own ID. Please come prepared by bringing your username and password for Epic Games (Epic ID - Fortnite/Rocket League), Riot Games (Valorant, League of Legends), Xbox/Microsoft, Steam, Origin (Apex Legends), Battle.net (Call of Duty, Heartstone, Overwatch) etc. The Esports Arena has a limited number of generic accounts, and will use them on a first come first served basis.
Yost also served as the locker room and weight conditioning area for Bo Schembechler's first football teams in the early 1970s. In 1973, the facility underwent a $555,134 renovation, converting it to an ice arena. It has since been home to Michigan hockey, as well the U-M men's and women's ice hockey club teams, the synchronized skating club team, various area high school hockey teams, recreational leagues, the University's intramural hockey/broomball leagues and a variety of other community and university ice programs.
In the summer of 1996, the arena underwent a $5.5 million renovation which included first floor remodeling, north end seating, new Michigan hockey locker room and training facilities, second floor administrative offices and new press box facilities. These renovations made Yost a state-of-the-art facility once again while maintaining its historical integrity.
The enormous arena was empty, save for the seesaws and the dozens of condemned criminals who sat naked upon them, hands tied behind their backs. Unfamiliar with the recently invented contraptions known as petaurua, the men tested the seesaws uneasily. One criminal would push off the ground and suddenly find himself 15 feet in the air while his partner on the other side of the seesaw descended swiftly to the ground. How strange.
With a flourish, trapdoors in the floor of the arena were opened, and lions, bears, wild boars and leopards rushed into the arena. The starved animals bounded toward the terrified criminals, who attempted to leap away from the beasts' snapping jaws. But as one helpless man flung himself upward and out of harm's way, his partner on the other side of the seesaw was sent crashing down into the seething mass of claws, teeth and fur.
The crowd of Romans began to laugh at the dark antics before them. Soon, they were clapping and yelling, placing bets on which criminal would die first, which one would last longest and which one would ultimately be chosen by the largest lion, who was still prowling the outskirts of the arena's pure white sand.
With the birth of the first "animal program," an uneasy milestone was achieved in the evolution of the Roman Games: the point at which a human being faced a snarling pack of starved beasts, and every laughing spectator in the crowd chanted for the big cats to win, the point at which the republic's obligation to make a man's death a fair or honorable one began to be outweighed by the entertainment value of watching him die.
Managing and training this ever-changing influx of beasts was not an easy task for the bestiarii. Wild animals are born with a natural hesitancy, and without training, they would usually cower and hide when forced into the arena's center. For example, it is not a natural instinct for a lion to attack and eat a human being, let alone to do so in front of a crowd of 100,000 screaming Roman men, women and children! And yet, in Rome's ever-more-violent culture, disappointing an editor would spell certain death for the low-ranking bestiarii.
As their reputations grew, bestiarii were given the power to independently devise new and even more audacious spectacles for the ludi meridiani (midday executions). And by the time the Roman Games had grown popular enough to fill 250,000-seat arenas, the work of the bestiarii had become a twisted art form.
The halftime show of damnatio ad bestias became so notorious that it was common for prisoners to attempt suicide to avoid facing the horrors they knew awaited them. Roman philosopher and statesmen Seneca recorded a story of a German prisoner who, rather than be killed in a bestiarius' show, killed himself by forcing a communally used prison lavatory sponge down his throat. One prisoner who refused to walk into the arena was placed on a cart and wheeled in; the prisoner thrust his own head between the spokes of its wheels, preferring to break his own neck than to face whatever horrors the bestiarius had planned for him.
Carpophorus was celebrated not only for training the animals that were set upon the enemies, criminals and Christians of Rome, but also for famously taking to the center of the arena to battle the most fearsome creatures himself.
"Believe that Pasiphae coupled with the Dictaean bull!" Martial wrote. "We've seen it! The Ancient Myth has been confirmed! Hoary antiquity, Caesar, should not marvel at itself: whatever Fame sings of, the arena presents to you."
Commodus began to fight as a gladiator. Sometimes, he arrived dressed in lion pelts, to evoke Roman hero Hercules; other times, he entered the ring absolutely naked to fight his opponents. To ensure a victory, Commodus only fought amputees and wounded soldiers (all of whom were given only flimsy wooden weapons to defend themselves). In one dramatic case recorded in Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Commodus ordered that all people missing their feet be gathered from the Roman streets and be brought to the arena, where he commanded that they be tethered together in the rough shape of a human body. Commodus then entered the arena's center ring, and clubbed the entire group to death, before announcing proudly that he had killed a giant.
Elmore says the event also gives students a chance to see the facility, which is barely a month old, for the first time. There will also be free ice skating at Agganis that night. People can bring their own skates or rent them at the arena.
An interesting thing happened in Chicago earlier this month. Just about everybody who is anybody in the NBA -- from Jerry West to Pat Riley -- showed up at a college gymnasium in Chicago to watch a 22-year-old Chinese man play basketball. Scouts, general managers and owners representing at least 24 teams looked at his 7-foot-5 frame. They watched him shoot jumpers, sink three-pointers, pass the ball and drive to the hoop against Oregon's Chris Christofferson.
"It could be, because it's a very image-oriented sports society," Kelly said. "They always watch what is important in the world of sport. But if you go to a Chinese game there aren't many fans there. And China hasn't really dominated outside its region. Maybe Yao will spur something, and I hope so, because they have the numbers."
"Plus, young kids and teenagers will have more interest in Major League Baseball because this is the highest level, and in the long term, I hope that has a positive effect. Our hope is that kids in Japan will become more interested in baseball by watching Ichiro and Shinjo. That will be more important than whether more professional Japanese players show interest in Major League Baseball."
Special Note: Utah Valley University and the UCCU Center reserve the right to inspect all items brought into campus facilities. Guests who refuse to consent to searches will be denied entry into the arena or other parts of campus.
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