Colby Cabrera Finishes 7-0 To Clinch No. 1 Seed in NJCAAE Fall Playoffs
November 8, 2024 - - The Lorain County Community College Esports team began Week 7 of the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports fall season on Tuesday with 1v1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competition. Playoff positions were on the line and the Commodores came out winners in most of their matches.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1v1
Colby Cabrera (Amherst, Ohio/Marion L. Steele HS) came into the final week of the season with a perfect 6-0 (24-0 in rounds played) record and that didn't change after he dispatched Lackawanna College in a 4-0 sweep in Tier 2 Contender Series play to finish the season undefeated. With that win, Cabrera earns the No. 1 seed in the NJCAAE Playoffs that begin next week.
Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) won his Tier 1 match in a 3-0 sweep against Northwest Florida State College. He finishes the fall season with a 10-2 record for third place in his Tier 1 grouping. He will have a spot in the NJCAAE Playoffs next week as well.
Jason Thomas (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) finished his fall season on a good note with a 4-1 win over Ocean City Community College.
Also competing Tuesday night was David LeBron Jr. (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) who won his Tier 3 Open Series match against the Community College of Beaver County in four rounds.
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 include:
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.