Commodore Esports Goes 3-2 In Super Smash Bros. Crew Battle Matches Friday
October 26, 2024 - - Lorain County Community College's Esports program picked up a couple of wins in the week four finale that was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Crew Battle in National Junior College Athletic Association Esports play.
LCCC participated in five matches Friday evening and came out victorious in three of them, all in Open Series – Tier 3 play.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Crew Battle – 3v3 – Best-of-Three
First up was the LCCC 1 team that was made up of Colby Cabrera (Amherst, Ohio/Marion L. Steele HS), Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), and Gabriel Beckstrom (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) who won both their matches Friday evening. First they defeated North Central Technical College before crushing Lake Region in 2-0 sweeps. Rogers led the Commodores with eight knockouts in the first round.
The LCCC 3 squad composed of Jason Thomas (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), Nehemiah Hopkins (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS), and Yaniel Collazo (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria HS) won against Lake Region State College with a clean 2-0 sweep but fell to Danville Area Community College in three rounds. Thomas led in knockouts in the win against Lake Region with 12 while Hopkins had 10 against Danville.
The LCCC 2 team fell to Lackawanna College in two rounds when they were bested by the smallest of margins in the second round, 9-8. Comprised of Josh Conde (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), David LeBron Jr. (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), and Christopher Gonet (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS), they fell 9-6 in the opening round.
About CommodoreEsports:
LCCC's Esports team competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) which is split into three competition 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 all three tiers, full-time students have a choice to compete in any tier. Tier 1 - Premier Series (PS) is the top-level of NJCAAE competition for members with teams made up of eligible students, Tier 2 - Contender Series (CS) competition is the mid-level of NJCAAE competition for members with teams made up of eligible students, and 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 but must be associated with LCCC. Both fall and spring seasons of competition run for seven weeks before the postseason begins.
Gaming titles that LCCC Esports plays in or has played in the past:
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 and has also competed in Fortnite starting in 2024.
Madden, a football simulation game.
Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.