Week 4 of NJCAAE Spring Season Sees Valorant and Mario Kart Get Wins
March 14, 2024 - - Week 4 of the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports spring season is in full swing and the Commodores were again in action Thursday night in Mario Kart, Street Fighter, and Valorant.
The Valorant team—Consisting of Ethan Stump (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS), Brody Taylor (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Cadence Buckles (Elyria, Ohio/LCCC Early College), Kylie Zeman (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Justin Kozelka (Munson, Ohio/Ohio Virtual Academy), and Anthony Gonzalez (Lorain, Ohio/LCCC Early College)--picked up a win against Three Rivers Community College after losing last week to get their record back up to .500 at 2-2. Taylor led his squad in kills with 47 while Gonzalez put up 22 with a team-high 11 assists. Zeman had 11 bomb plants.
Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) and Collin Zielinksi (North Olmsted, Ohio/North Olmsted HS) each got wins Thursday night as Roberts won his best-of-seven match 4-0 while Zielinski got his first win of the spring with a forfeit by his opponent.
Aadyn Lilly (Elyria, Ohio/LCCC Early College) suffered his first loss of the spring in Street Fighter to his opponent from Laramie County Community College.
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 of an institution. 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 these 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.
Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.