The CANA Connection

In October, members of the CANA team attended the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The INFORMS Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of operations research and analytics professionals in the world, and it provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to share their latest work and ideas. This year's meeting featured a wide range of sessions on topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, optimization, and logistics

What an AMAZING event the Warrior GMR Foundation Armed Forces Esports Championship was! This event was a two-day esports tournament featuring the game Rocket League and five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces - the Air Force, Coast Guard, Army, Space Force, and Navy! The U.S. Air Force ultimately dominated the tournament, going undefeated on their journey to winning the championship! This event also hosted a bracket for the Gold Star Gamers, a wonderful esports organization “

Introduction As mentioned in my previous blog post, CANA’s Inaugural Esports Tournament Lessons Learned From The R6 Showdown, we hosted our first annual esports event, the CANA R6 Showdown, this past April. The initiating spark to host an esports event grew out of our interest in supporting the esports industry through the use of data analytics. This event gave us a controlled data sample to assess our capabilities applied to esports. The selected game for the event was Tom C

A lot of changes are taking place as we move out of spring and head into summer. School may be ending, certain travel restrictions may be lifted, and perhaps we will find the warmer weather will allow for more in person connecting. One thing we know for sure - people are revving up for summer sports and esports! As we profile in this newsletter, with the large help of our successful internship program, CANA Advisors delved into the rapidly growing esports community by launchi