LCCC Super Smash Bros. Blue Squad Loses First Match Of The Spring

March 15, 2024 - - The Lorain County Community College esports team wrapped up Week 4 of NJCAAE play Friday evening with two Super Smash Bros. teams competing in Crew Battle, a 3v3 knockout format, against Trinity Valley Community College and Marshalltown Community College.

Playing for the Gold squad Friday night was Josh Conde (Lorain, Ohio/LCCC Early College) David LeBron Jr. (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Christopher Gonet (Lorain, Ohio/LCCC Early College).  Despite getting Trinity Valley Community College down to their final player in each round, they weren't able to pick up a win and fell in two rounds.

The Blue Squad—consisting of Gabriel Beckstrom (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Colby Cabrera (Amherst, Ohio/Marion L. Steele HS).--lost the first round on its last player but fought back in the second round thanks to Rogers eliminating Marshalltown's last two players to force a third round.  Rogers started for LCCC in round three and got going by eliminating Marshalltown's first two competitors.  However, Marshalltown's last fighter finished off Rogers, then eliminated Beckstrom, and then Cabrera to take the win.  It was the blue squad's first loss of the spring.

The Smash players will be back in action on Tuesday for individual matchups for week 5 of the NJCAAE Spring Season. The live streamed match will begin at 6 p.m. 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.