Christopher Scroggins has joined Fortnite and Rocket League owner Epic Games as its new esports coordinator. Scroggins made the official announcement Monday in a social media post.
Scroggins said in his official announcement that in this new role he will focus on Epic’s esports-related B2B strategy and supporting third-party relationships on a global scale, working closely with the company’s existing team.
“In this role, I’ll be focused on B2B strategy and supporting third-party relationships,” he said in a social media post. “I’m looking forward to learning from an incredible team and gaining a broader perspective on esports and gaming at a global scale.”
Scroggins joins Epic from Esports Development and Growth Enterprise (EDGE), a company he founded at the end of 2019 to help organizations, educational institutions, and other entities “integrate esports into their organizational operations.” Over the last month Scroggins stepped down as CEO and took on a more passive role, leaving the day-to-day operations to Co-Founder Zach Harrington.
Prior to founding EDGE, he spent more than three years at Shenandoah University as an esports instructor and two-and-a-half years at West Virginia University as the academic director of esports and service assistant professor.
Epic Games has turned over the operation of its competitive gaming ecosystem to third-parties including global tournament organizer BLAST. Epic is also working with the Esports World Cup Foundation, allowing for Fortnite and Rocket League to be competitive titles at the Esports World Cup, the Saudi government-funded, multi-week competition held in Riyadh in the Summer. No doubt Scroggins’ expertise in the collegiate space and working closely on grassroots and scholastic esports efforts through EDGE will be useful to Epic, possibly giving it a better handle on those ecosystems in the United States going forward.