Universities are ramping up facility investments and recruiting efforts for the next sports craze – esports – to boost institutional reputation, create leading-edge new academic programs, and promote (surprisingly) student wellness. Competing for space on campus are esports arenas packed with state-of-the-art equipment like virtual reality headsets and high-performance gaming computers, hefty monitors, and thematic lighting. Chris Chivetta and Will Schenck survey recent esports facility initiatives at leading institutions and detail five high-priority planning issues that must be considered.  They will also illustrate an array of space funding and program ownership solutions, space and equipment configurations, infrastructure requirements, and desirable adjacencies.