Esports Continues Spring Season's Opening Week With Valorant and Street Fighter
February 22, 2023 - - Lorain County Community College's esports program continued its opening week of National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) competition on Thursday night with two titles in Valorant and Street Fighter 6.
Aadyn Lilly (Elyria, Ohio/LCCC Early College) won his Street Fighter Tier 3 match against Monroe Community College in a clean sweep to start the spring season with a victory. He won his opening match in Tekken on Monday evening with a 3-0 sweep as well.
Also opening their seven-week Tier 3 division regular season was the Valorant squad comprised of Brody Taylor (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Kylie Zeman (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Anthony Gonzalez (Lorain, Ohio/LCCC Early College), Jay'Von Brooks (Chicago, Ill.), Cadence Buckles (Elyria, Ohio/ LCCC Early College), Tyler Misconish (Strongsville, Ohio/Strongsville HS), and Ethan Stump (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS).
LCCC's Valorant team is coming off a postseason appearance in the fall after going 6-1. The Commodores lost in the opening week but ripped off six straight wins to earn a first round bye.
LCCC lost the opening round of their best-of-three match Thursday after they won six of seven games to force overtime before DuPage edged out the Commodores, 14-12. They bounced back in round two to win 13-8 but lost the final round 13-5.
Taylor had 82 kills and four bomb defuses in round one for the Commodores while Zeman had 40 kills with 14 bomb plants. Stump finished with 33 kills while Brooks had 29 kill assists.
LCCC continues its NJCAAE Week 1 matches on Friday with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Crew Battle tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. live on LCCC's Twitch channel: CommodoreEsports.
About CommodoreEsports:
LCCC's Esports team competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) which is split into three tiers: Tier 1 - Premier Series, Tier 2 - Contender Series, and Tier 3 - Open Series. There is a fall season (September-December) and a spring season (February-April). LCCC has players that compete in Tier 2 and Tier 3. Tier 2 - Contender Series (CS) competition is the mid-level of NJCAAE competition for members with teams made up of eligible students while Tier 3 - Open Series (OS) competition is the open level of NJCAAE competition for members. In Tier 3, participants do not have to meet any Student Eligibility requirements.
Both tiers of competition run for seven weeks before the postseason begins.
Currently, LCCC competes in seven gaming titles/competitions:
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a fighting game, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a racing game, that feature characters from the Nintendo gaming universe on the Nintendo Switch. With Super Smash Bros. players can compete in individual competitions in a best-of-five match or in crew battle, an elimination style game in a 3v3 format.
Valorant, a PC first person shooting game where teams of five players compete in a best two-of-three match where the objective is for one team to place and detonate a spike while the other team tries to diffuse it. LCCC also competes in Overwatch 2, another first person shooting game.
Madden 24, a football simulation game based on the 2023-24 NFL rosters.
Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.