Esports Wraps Up Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Spring Season; Commodores Await Playoff Match Ups

April 2, 2024 - - The Lorain County Community College Esports team has arrived to week 7 of the NJCAAE Spring Season and on Tuesday night they wrapped up the regular season for 1v1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.  Now they will wait for playoff matches to be set.

Super Smash Brothers – 1v1 – Best-of-7

LCCC had 11 matches on Tuesday night and playoff spots were on the line for a few Commodores.  For Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), William Klein (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), and Colby Cabrera (Amherst, Ohio/Marion L. Steele HS), they await to see who their opponents will be since they have finished in the top 32 in the Tier 2 division and will most likely clinch a playoff spot.

Rogers won his final match 4-0 and finished the spring 6-1, Cabrera won as well and finishes at 5-2, and Klein fell in his regular season finale and finishes at 4-3 for the spring. 

In the Tier 3 division, Matthew Coleman (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS) defeated his week 7 opponent from Catawba Valley Community College to finish the spring 6-1.  Gabriel Beckstrom (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) won his final match of the spring easily 4-0 to finish 5-1.  

Once all results from week 7 have been reported to the NJCAAE, then the playoff brackets will be formed for the postseason which will begin on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6 p.m.

As always, LCCC will stream the matches live on their Twitch channel: CommodoreEsports

Next up for week 7 will be 1v1 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 5v5 Valorant on Thursday.  Live stream on Twitch begins at 6 p.m.

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.

Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.

For more information on LCCC Athletics, visit athletics.lorainccc.edu