The National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE), the governing body for two-year college esports in the United States, has announced a partnership with Florida-based Fantastic Athletes Corporation.
The collaboration will provide NJCAAE member institutions with access to FantasticWE, a coaching platform developed by Fantastic Athletes, which offers video-on-demand review, self-guided practice tools, and asynchronous monitoring for coaches. The NJCAAE said the initiative is intended to help colleges sustain and grow their esports programmes by supporting both student recruitment and retention.
“The FantasticWE solution will not only help coaches recruit, but it will also help them create structure within their programme,” said Matt King, Director of Esports at the NJCAAE. “This tool allows coaches to create self-guided practices based on in-depth VOD reviews for students that coaches can monitor completely asynchronously if needed.”
Under the agreement, NJCAAE members will receive discounted access to FantasticWE’s services, which include its SaaS platform and coaching support across multiple esports titles.
Sammy Sabri, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Fantastic Athletes Corporation, said: “Fantastic Athletes Corporation is thrilled to partner with the NJCAAE in a groundbreaking collaboration that shatters communication barriers between coaches and players while unleashing our USA-patented system to redefine performance and rewrite the playbook for collegiate esports excellence.”
Speaking to The Esports Radar, Sabri and the Fantastic Athletes Corporation Co-Founder and CEO Efrat Peled Avnor highlighted esports as “the most data-intensive performance environment in existence”, with billions of gamers generating real-time decision data. They stressed that the platform aims to capture decision-making patterns under pressure – cognitive skills they say are transferable beyond gaming into business and leadership contexts: “We’re not training gamers; we’re training future executives who happen to sharpen their decision-making through gaming.”
“We aim to provide value to esports coaches and players who don’t yet have access to the larger budgets available in traditional sports and need better academic-level coaching tools,” the founders stated to The Esports Radar.
The NJCAAE represents two-year, technical, and community colleges, offering competitive structures and programme support for member institutions across the United States.
