Forget Dodge-ball on ESPN, It’s Battle of The Nerds on ESPN 2

Move over bowling, poker and even the made up World Dodge-ball championships, there’s a new leader in the clubhouse for nerdiest live programming aired on ESPN.

On Sunday night (4/26), ESPN 2 aired a live video game tournament called Heroes of the Dorm, a play on the game’s name “Heroes of the Storm.”

It was an exciting game of college students going head-to-head in the multi-player online game, with actual commentary and play by play from gamer announcers.

ESPN programmed this tournament against the NHL playoffs on the NBC networks, the NBA playoffs on Turner and it’s own “Sunday Night Baseball” on another ESPN channel.

Viewers were losing their minds over this

Blizzard — the creators of the game — announced the partnership with ESPN back in March with,  a bracket-style tournament to decide the winner. Arizona State faced UC-Berkeley in front of a live audience, both on TV and at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium.

While the event seemed like a joke, the prize wasn’t — the players from Berkeley, the winning team, will have their college tuition paid for

Hero's of the Dorm highlights from the round of 32