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This Week in Michigan Tech Esports

This Week in Michigan Tech Esports

Monday, February 21
• Rocket League A vs. Aquinas, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, February 22
• League of Legends vs. UW-Stout, 7 p.m.
• CSGO ESEA vs. Dead or Alive, 10 p.m.

Wednesday, February 23
• Rocket League B vs. Illinois Wesleyan, 7 p.m.
• Rocket League B vs. Rutgers, 7:45 p.m.
• Rocket League A vs. Embry-Riddle, 7 p.m.
• Rocket League A vs. University of New Haven, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday, February 24
• Overwatch vs. Butler, 6 p.m.
• Super Smash Bros vs. Davenport, 7 p.m.
• CSGO ESEA vs. Feels Muted Man, 10 p.m.

Friday, February 25
• CSGO (3) vs. Michigan State (2), 7 p.m.

Sunday, February 26
• Rocket league B vs. Unannounced, 7 p.m.
• Overwatch vs. Unannounced (two matches)

All in-person events are in bold

Times are subject to change, check Twitter @MTUEsports for updates and for stream links


CSGO

Huskies win! On Friday, Tech dominated Missouri College of Science & Technology only ceding nine rounds the entire series. Hunter "Retnuh" Holm dropped 28 frags on Nuke, with 25 of those being on the T side. He was just getting started, as Hunter went on to score a staggering 37 kills on Ancient for a grand total of 62 kills in 41 total rounds of play.

CSGO is now 2-1 in NACE. The Huskies are ranked No. 3 in the NACE Coaches' Poll and face No. 2 Michigan State Friday.

The ESEA team fell on Tuesday 16-7 against Smile. Brendon "DeadO" Cook and prospect Anthony "Ahmoar" Scheuer both scored a respectable nine kills respectively. Anthony had an ADR (average damage per round) of 92.04.

Thursday saw the squad lose to Oveja Negra 16-10. Anthony "Ahmoar" Scheuer had 21 kills and Sean "Cleanslate" Parker scored 17 kills.

CSGO ESEA is now 1-5 in ESEA Main.

League of Legends

Tuesday saw another 2-0 victory for Tech, this time over University of Minnesota's JV squad. Game 1 saw senior Cael "HockeyRat00" Hansen with 24 total takedowns. Senior Aidan "Oscar Wilde" VanDrie had 10 kills in game two.

Huskies League of Legends is now four wins into an undefeated streak in the NACE tournament.

Overwatch

On Thursday, Husky's Overwatch fell 3-0 to the University of Ottawa. On Eichenwalde, Tyler "Valkyrie" Harris scored 15,491 points of healing and Josh "MrGotGame" Gindt secured 41 kills.

MTU is currently 0-2 in the NECC tournament.

In the opening week of the Activision-Blizzard Collegiate (ABC) tournament on Saturday, the University of South Carolina forfeited and the Huskies bested the University of Florida 2-1. Sal "PicklePiglet" Mazzola had 37 kills on Busan, and Caleb "blackflip" Rogers blocked 17,179 damage on King's Row.

MTU starts undefeated 2-0 in ABC.

Rocket League

Rocket League has two teams representing the Huskies, A and B.

The A team's UGC doubleheader saw a 3-0 victory over GFU and a 3-0 loss to the Sienna Heights Saints. Team captain Tyler "Tater" Tappin scored three points in the series against GFU.

MTU Rocket League A is now 2-2 in UGC. 

In the NACE tournament, despite 5 saves in game 1 by Isaac "stew" Stilwell and 6 saves by Tyler "Tater" Tappin in game 3 MTU fell to Mizzou 3-1.

MTU Rocket League A is now 3-1 in NACE.

The B team fell to Hofstra 3-0, the University of Florida game was rescheduled. The B team is 0-3 in UGC.

Super Smash Bros: Ultimate

The doubleheader of Smash on Thursday saw a 7 stock lead victory over the Britons and a 3 stocks victory for Oakland over Tech. Against Albion, Colin ";" Arkens took 5 stocks as Zelda and Noah "Noko" Kolczynski took 7 stocks as Palutena. Facing the Saints, captain Cam "Carp" Kern took 3 stocks as Ice Climbers and Colin ";" Arkens took 4 stocks as Zelda.

MTU is now 3-1 in NACE.