NJCAAE Playoffs Continue For LCCC Esports
November 21, 2024 - - The Lorain County Community College Esports had student-athletes in three different game titles competing Thursday night. Robert Rogers opened Tier 1 Mario Kart postseason play, Colby Cabrera continued on in Tier 2 Super Smash Bros., and the Tier 1 Valorant team opened their postseason play.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1v1 – Best-of-Five
Colby Cabrera lost his first match of the fall when he fell to Marshalltown Community College, 3-0. The loss moves him into the elimination bracket and will play again on December 3, 2024 after the holiday break. His opponent for that match up has not been determined yet.
Mario Kart 8 – 1v1 – Best-of-Seven
Rogers won his first match of the evening with a breezy 4-0 sweep of Gogebic Community College. His second match was against Union College of Union County where he lost in five rounds and was moved into the elimination bracket.
He then faced Bevill Community College and took a 2-0 lead early on but Bevill started to come back and tied the match up at 2-2. Rogers took round five before Bevill forced a seventh round. Rogers lost in round seven and was eliminated.
Valorant – 5v5 – Best-of-Three
The Valorant team faced No. 1 seed Bryant & Stratton College (Va.) in a rematch of their Week 1 regular season match up. The Commodores, made up of Brody Taylor (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Kylie Zeman (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville HS), Mason Henderson (Vermilion, Ohio/Vermilion HS), Ethan Stump (Elyria, Ohio/LCCC Early College), Tyler Misconish (Stongsville, Ohio/Strongsville HS), hoped to pull off the upset in the first round but were swept 2-0 and will play in the consolation match on December 5, 2024 against either Northern Virginia Community College or West Virginia University Potomac State College.
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.