NJCCE Esports Playoff Begins Tuesday Live On Twitch
April 16, 2024 - - The National Juniors College Athletic Association Esports spring season has wrapped and Lorain County Community College Esports team has moved into the playoff mode. Things will kick off on Tuesday night with the 1v1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament. Tier 2 will play, at most, two rounds this evening while Tier 3 players will play as many as three rounds tonight.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 1v1 – Best-of-7
Three student-athletes, Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Colby Cabrera (Amherst, Ohio/Marion L. Steele HS), and William Klein (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), will compete Tuesday evening in rounds one and two of the 1v1 Super Smash Bros. Tier 2 Contender Series playoff (32 players), starting at 6 p.m. live on LCCC's Twitch Channel: CommodoreEsports. Rounds three and four will be played on Wednesday evening. The semi-finals will be on April 23 and the finals will be on April 24. It is a double-elimination tournament.
Rogers, Cabrera, and Klein combined to go 15-6 this spring. Rogers earned the second seed in the tournament going 6-1 and winning 72% of his best-of-seven games.
Cabrera, who went 5-2 and snagged the 18th seed, will take on Monroe College and Klein, 4-3 this spring, will face 8th seeded Hines Community College.
In Tier 3 Open Series single-elimination Playoff, Gabriel Beckstrom (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Matthew Coleman (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS), David LeBron Jr. (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Collin Zielinski (North Olmsted, Ohio/North Olmsted HS), Jason Thomas (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) will also play at 6:30 p.m. The first three rounds of Tier 3 will be played tonight. The final rounds will continue on April 23 and 24, 2024.
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.
