The season started Jan. 13 and ends in May. 4 and even then, with the 10-week time span the team only has one loss for the Marvel Rivals Tournament under their belt. Now they are tied for 2nd place with the Crooms Panthers and the BU
The club meets every day in the library during lunch and participates in their tournaments every Thursday at 4:30 pm from the comfort of their homes.
“I also just practice online wise, you know, you need to be able to play more online to prepare for the tournaments,” Senior Yue Peters said.
The tournaments take place on Vanta, which is a popular platform used for youth E-Sports clubs like the one we have here at Lakewood.
But tournaments don’t just stop at online platforms like Vanta there are also opportunities for club members to join local tournaments too.
“I like being able to not sit around doing nothing during lunch but be able to play games during lunch and do something interactive,” Senior Dakota White says.
The E-Sports club offers many different types of games like cross fighter games like “Super Smash Bros” to sports simulation games like “NBA 2k”.
The club also gives students an opportunity to collaborate with each other and gives a space for more shy students to come out of their shell and find people with like interests.
“I started it because I play a lot of video games myself, and I thought it would be a fun way to connect with the students and kind of give them a reason to come to school,” E-Sports Club Sponsor and English Teacher Christopher Mosher said.
Now Mosher is working with the CAT assistant principal Lukas Hefty to try to secure a space on campus just for the E-Sports club for the next school year.
He also wants to help make E-Sports club more of a district wide club instead of an exclusive club, especially since it works so well in colleges.
“I feel like you should join if you enjoy playing games and due to the cooperation and teamwork that it encourages weather it’s just sitting there at the table playing games or doing tournaments,” White said “We play to win, and we win,” Senior Dakota White said.