About the CEA

Founded in 2012, the CEA is the longest running, largest, and most successful company in the corporate gaming space. Through custom employee engagement events, business strategy consultation on how to access the gaming space, and via CEA’s Corporate Charity Championship Series, the CEA has partnered with many Fortune 500 companies of the last few years.

Driving Corporate Culture Through Gaming

Directed Gaming Builds Cohesion
Excuse the obvious: Games Are Fun. In the same way that multi-player games evolved to incentivize cooperation, games evolved to be mentally “sticky.” They attract cultural trends and they’re part of an ongoing public conversation. Whereas many learning & development programs struggle with employee activation, you will never have to convince people to play games.

Everyone Games
150 million Americans play video games. Almost all of them play at least three hours per week. Regardless of skill, experience, access, or background, there’s a game for everyone. Gaming is disproportionately popular among people of color. The average gamer has been playing for 13 years. Women aged 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population than men aged 18 younger.

Retention is not Salary!
Studies show that a worker’s intent to stay at a job is only peripherally linked to their paycheck. Intent to stay is driven by social support structures: a worker’s relationships with their manager and co-workers, external validation, and the cohesiveness of their team.

What we do

We’ll handle the registration process and provide you with end-to-end coverage for all our events so you don’t have to worry about anything!

This includes but is not limited to:

  • Registration
  • Event advertising materials
  • Team matching for individual registrations to team events
  • Event management
  • Event communications
  • Game and tournament instructions for participants
  • Tournament operations
  • Broadcast & production
  • Custom overlays for your event
  • Professional commentary
  • Optional highlight videos or marketing materials
  • Prizes & swag (optional)
  • Game coaching opportunities (optional)
  • Post event survey

Event Types

Single-day Events

Elevate your internal icebreaker or company happy hour with a custom gaming event.

These events are targeted to run 1-2 hours (optionally up to 5 hours) and are playable in a variety of platforms. 

Spice things up with custom event matchups, like Seattle vs. New York office, Interns vs. Managers, or Marketing vs Finance. Meet new teammates and improve team communication while event recaps dominate the lunch discussions. Given their lightweight, single-day, and casual nature, this fun gaming experience is ideal for anyone to join, regardless of skill level.

Example Game Titles:
Fall Guys, Among Us, Omega Strikers, Super Animal Royal, Brawlhalla, Codenames, Geoguesser and many more.

Starting at $1,000

Multi-week Events

The modern version of the company table tennis league!

These events are a longer-term engagements that span 1-3 months, depending on size. The continuous engagement creates a perfect environment to get to know your team and meet new people across the company.

Team events are a great opportunity to involve clients and partners and get their teams involved in the competition.

Structured in Regular Season (guaranteed number of matches per team) and Playoffs (knockout system to determine winners), these events are perfect to to engage employees worldwide.

Example Game Titles:
Rocket League, League of Legends, Overwatch, Valorant, Starcraft, Chess, Dota2, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Halo, Team Fight Tactics, and many more.

Starting at $5,000

Asynchronous Events

The evolution of book clubs but with games.

As a group, choose from a curated list of game titles, play at your own pace, get weekly prompts for engagement, and come together for a game discussion moderated and attended by members of the community.

Async gaming events are a non-competitive, low-pressure way to be vulnerable in a safe space, helping to grow bonds in an organic way.

You just played an emotional game and want to join a discussion with the writer of the story? Let a graphic designer explain their thought process in modeling the main character, or have a speed runner demonstrate on how to complete the game the fastest. The opportunities are limitless and provide engaging content for any employee. These types of events have been proven effective to engage less engaged employees!

Example Game Titles:
Ori and the Blind Forest, Stray, Undertale, Life is Strange, Inscryption, Outer Wilds, Tunic, and many more.

Starting at $2,000

Custom Solutions

Are you looking for a custom solution for your opportunities?

Collegiate Community engagements in order to reach a new group of potential new hires?

Gaming Community market activations to publicize your brand to gaming and esports communities?

Building leadership development opportunities for your internal managers of tomorrow?

Custom large scale esport events in person?

Talk to us and our experienced team will be happy to put a proposal that fits your needs!

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