{"id":1543,"date":"2025-06-24T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:28:32","slug":"we-asked-50-students-one-question-why-do-you-play-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/we-asked-50-students-one-question-why-do-you-play-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"We asked 50 students one question: Why do you play video games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answers weren\u2019t what you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p>Not one of them said \u201cto win.\u201d Not one said \u201cto waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead, we heard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s how I feel less alone.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI get to solve problems and lead.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s the only place I feel confident.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019s why we built Long Island Gaming League. Not just for competition. Not just for fun. <strong>But because play builds purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfaf<strong> Now, we\u2019re turning those answers into action.<\/strong> Through our esports programs, we help students turn their passion into careers, leadership, and lifelong skills.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce9 Want to bring this energy to your school or program? DM us or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/\">www.longislandgamingleague.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#WhyWePlay #EsportsEducation #StudentVoice #GamersInSchool #STEM #PurposeThroughPlay #EdLeadership #LIGL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answers weren\u2019t what you&#8217;d expect. Not one of them said \u201cto win.\u201d Not one said \u201cto waste time.\u201d Instead, we heard: \u201cIt\u2019s how I feel less alone.\u201d \u201cI get to solve problems and lead.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the only place I feel confident.\u201d And that\u2019s why we built Long Island Gaming League. Not just for competition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ligl-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelongislandgamingleague.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}