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Six Flags prototyped its gaming hub in San Antonio. Mexico City next.

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Six Flags prototyped its gaming hub in San Antonio. Mexico City next.

Bathed in blue and red lighting while seated onstage at high-end PCs, celebrity gamers are immersed in “Fortnite,” a popular online video game. Their every move is captured on video feeds being watched by fans as the action is described by announcers in a broadcast booth.

If it sounds a little like a pro sporting event, that’s because it is. The gamers are competitors in a two-day tournament — with $30,000 up for grabs — at ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola. It’s a first-of-its-kind facility and one the operators of Six Flags Fiesta Texas hope will give youthful visitors and their families a new reason to visit and stay longer at the park.

It was working that way during the recent tournament. In front of the stage, young people wearing headsets at rows of computers were also playing “Fortnite.” As they navigated the game and discussed strategies with friends, family members were a few feet away munching on snacks, charging phones and browsing gaming equipment and clothes for sale by Six Flags.

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San Antonio Spurs player Tre Jones — a gaming fan who had a spot on stage with the pros — appeared to be as excited to be there as a Spurs fan might be to sit courtside at a basketball game. 

“I watch a lot of them,” he said of the pro gamers. “To play with them was a dream come true.”

Other fans got a chance to meet the pros during breaks in the tournament, when star gamers known by stage names such as as Bugha, Sommerset, Kaz and Zemie mingled and posed for photos.

Players intently watch their screens during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Players intently watch their screens during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad
Players from all over the country man their screens during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Players from all over the country man their screens during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad
Kyle Rapozo, better known in gaming circles as Kazify, plays during Saturday's E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Kyle Rapozo, better known in gaming circles as Kazify, plays during Saturday’s E6 gaming tournament in a new e-gaming facility recently completed at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There was over $30,000 in prize money for the event.
Robin Jerstad


Players from across the country watch their screens during E6’s recent gaming tournament at Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ new e-gaming facility. Kyle Rapozo, (bottom right) better known in gaming circles as Kazify, was one of those players vying for a piece of the $30,000 in prize money.

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Drought-stricken Mexico is traveling planes into clouds to make it rain

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Drought-stricken Mexico is traveling planes into clouds to make it rain



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As an extreme drought grips Mexico, top to crop losses, a deficiency of drinking water and higher food selling prices, the govt is seeking to convey desperately-necessary rain by turning to a controversial technological innovation: cloud seeding.

In July, the place kicked off the newest section of a cloud seeding project that aims to artificially stimulate rainfall. It is focusing on 62 municipalities clustered in its north and northeast, with the intention of “combating the outcomes of drought and contributing to the recharge of aquifers,” according to a assertion from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Cloud seeding is a know-how to start with found out in the 1940s. Because then, it has been utilised in all over 50 nations around the world, which includes in the United States and China. Mexico has been experimenting with climate modification for more than 7 many years.

On the other hand, some scientists stay quite careful about the success of cloud seeding and alert that it is not a solution to drought.

“It has a controversial background because it’s really tough to confirm what you are executing from a scientific perspective,” Roelef Bruintjes, a temperature modification scientist at the Countrywide Center for Atmospheric Investigation in the US, instructed CNN.

A cloud seeding plane from the company Startup Renaissance.

For cloud seeding to operate, you initial need to have a cloud. Planes or drones inject particles into the cloud that draw in h2o droplets to sort about them, expanding the opportunity of rainfall or snowfall.

“The full thought is not ‘creating clouds’ – simply because we are unable to make a cloud, we simply cannot chase absent a cloud,” Bruintjes claimed. “But it is making an attempt to get a greater share of the drinking water that is processed in the cloud down to the surface area.”

Mexico’s job consists of spraying silver iodide particles into clouds from planes. The government hopes stimulating rainfall can assist farmers improved cope with the drought that has swept substantial swaths of the nation.

In mid-July, more than 40% of Mexico was in reasonable to extreme drought, in accordance to the nationwide weather company. The nation has also been sweltering through a serious warmth wave that has killed at minimum 249 folks in excess of the earlier four months.

This extraordinary temperature is only set to get even worse – researchers are obvious that heat waves and drought will turn into far more typical and more extreme as the local weather crisis accelerates.

Cows affected by drought graze in the municipality of Coyame, in Chihuahua state, Mexico August 4, 2022.

Mexico contends that its existing cloud seeding challenge, which it has been working due to the fact December 2020, has had a favourable impression. In 2021, the cloud seeding flights had developed 40% extra rain, the govt reported – a determine it calculated by measuring the change concerning meteorological forecasts and precise rainfall measured by rain gauges.

“Our initiatives have all been profitable,” said a spokesman for the company Startup Renaissance, a rain stimulation firm which has worked on the Mexican govt venture because 2020.

But quite a few experts stay skeptical.

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