The Gigazone Gaming Championship is northern Minnesota’s premiere gaming event! For eight years running, the GZGC has provided a place for the gamers of the Northwoods to meet, display their skills, test their mettle, and walk away with fortune and glory!


The Gigazone Gaming Championship is an entirely free-to-attend and free-to-compete community-based e-sports and gaming competition! Hosted by Paul Bunyan Communications and powered by the region’s largest and fastest fiber-optic network, the GZGC aims to bring all of the tension, fun, and competition of e-sports to northern Minnesota. Boasting bigger-than-life main stage competitions, creative Cosplay events, and a bevy of side games to step up and play, the GZGC provides fun for all ages and a place for gamers of all kinds to gather and play.

Previously featured main-stage and side games:

And a ton of various arcade and pinball machines are set to free play and crowd the walls of the Sanford Center in Bemidji!

About Paul Bunyan Communications

Paul Bunyan Communications has one of the largest and fastest rural all-fiber optic networks in the United States, with over 6,000 square miles throughout most of Beltrami County and portions of Aitken, Cass, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis Counties. The Cooperative provides GigaZone Internet with speeds up to 10 Gig, digital and high-definition television services, digital voice services, and Residential and Business IT services. It is also northern Minnesota’s certified Apple Service Center.