SAN ANTONIO – After a lot of planning and anticipation, the St. Mary's Esports program has begun competing in their respective leagues. The St. Mary's Fortnite team and Rainbow 6 Siege team are seeing fantastic success in their first year while the team awaits things to heat up with Overwatch and League of Legends.
League of Legends
Bryann "yaboylarryb" Cervantes, Top Lane
Donte "tokyo love" Joseph, Jungler & Team Captain
Gabriel "gabe elo" Lopez, Mid Lane
Chloe "Login Decline" Martinez, AD Carry
Lisa "Elite Dragon" Dinh, Support
As of 10/18, there's a lack of news about the League of Legends team as Collegiate Starleague (CSL) has announced a two-week delay of the start of their competitive season. In the latest announcements, the league is set to start on October 24th. In the meantime, St. Mary's has been participating in friendly scrimmages against select League of Legends teams from the University of Houston, Oklahoma State University, and Northwestern University.
Overwatch
Felix Jaime, DPS
Raul Hernandez, DPS
Sonora Mata, Tank & Team Captain
Matthew Rios, Tank
Martin Douglas Beirne, Tank
Mikey Betancourt, Support
Marcus Garcia, Support
This fall the St. Mary's Overwatch team has been competing in the Tespa Varsity Series as they have been accepted to be part of Tespa's Collegiate Varsity Network, which allows teams within the St. Mary's Varsity Esports program to participate in Tespa competitions exclusive to varsity programs. Currently Tespa offers varsity competitions for Overwatch and Hearthstone.
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The fall season has been structured to provide multiple opportunities for varsity teams to compete in qualifiers and/or a swiss style bracket to secure a playoff spot. Currently, St. Mary's ranks 21st among 43 university teams competing in the Tespa: Varsity Series Main Season (8-round Swiss Bracket), on October 24th and 25th we will play our remaining three matches.
Once the Swiss Main Season concludes, there will be an opportunity to participate in Play-Ins where all teams from the bracket and the bottom 16 teams from the Varsity Invitational will be placed into a double elimination bracket, where teams will compete for a spot in the playoffs. The top four teams from the play-ins will be placed into the playoffs.
The current Tespa Collegiate Varsity Network can be found
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St. Mary's record in the Swiss Bracket:
| StMU Varsity Esports (2-3) |
Date |
Outcome |
| Match 1: IIT Scarlet Hawks A |
Oct 10 2020 |
Loss |
| Match 2: Old Dominion University |
Oct 10 2020 |
Loss |
| Match 3: Concord Esports |
Oct 17 2020 |
Loss |
| Match 4: Golden Knights (College of Saint Rose) |
Oct 17 2020 |
Win |
| Match 5: Hocking College Hawks |
Oct 24 2020 |
Win |
| Match 6: EMU Esports |
Oct 24 2020 |
Upcoming |
| Match 7: TBD |
Oct 25 2020 |
|
| Match 8: TBD |
Oct 25 2020 |
|
Fortnite
On Sunday, October 18th, all 6 of St. Mary's Fortnite student-athletes participated in Collegiate Starleague's Fortnite Open Tournament #1 in the form of 3-teams of two players each, also known as duos. This single-elimination tournament included 34 total teams representing 24 unique universities. StMU Blue,
Sebastian Aguilar and
Antonio Charo, placed 4th and won a prize amount of $125 to be split amongst the duo. The next CSL Fortnite Open Tournament will take place Sunday November 1st, all six of St. Mary's Fortnite players intend to compete.
CSL - Open Tournament #1 Duos
4th Place: StMU Blue
Sebastian Aguilar,
Antonio Charo
9th Place: StMU White -
Jose Antelo,
Aidan Brockman
17th Place: StMU Gold -
Teresa Lee,
Baptiste Pousset
As of 10/18, the Fortnite teams have competed in three out of the eight regular season weeks of the PlayVS Fortnite competition. They have not yet secured a playoff spot for either team, currently 133 teams comprised of 3-players also known as trios, are competing in the PlayVS Fortnite Fall season. Each week the top 3-trios will secure a guaranteed playoff spot and at the end of the regular season the top 66 teams will make the playoffs. The top 33 teams from playoffs will be competing in the Fall Season Championship. In the coming weeks, St. Mary's Fortnite roster plans to continue competing in additional collegiate tournaments run by organizations such as AVGL (American Video Game League) and NACL (North American Collegiate League).
Rainbow 6 Siege
Members: Peter "Humphrey" Alva, Sebastian "Splendid Echo" Holguin, Joshua "jamanik" Webb, Jake "Yakob" Villegas, Arturo "itreallyblikthat" Gaona
Collegiate R6 (CR6)
After five weeks of regular season play in the CR6 "Gulf Coast" Division, St. Mary's were not successful in placing for playoffs. Within the Gulf Coast Division there are 24 teams representing 24 unique universities, 128 overall teams competed in the CR6 Fall regular season. Details for CR6 Spring season have not yet been announced, but the team plans to participate and compete again for another shot at playoffs.
Regular Season Matches
|
Higher Seed |
Lower Seed |
Outcome |
| Week 1 |
St. Mary's Varsity |
Oklahoma State Orange |
Loss (0-2) |
| Week 2 |
St. Mary's Varsity |
Esports at Iowa Black |
Win (2-0) |
| Week 3 |
St. Mary's Varsity |
Hardin-Simmons University |
Win (2-1) |
| Week 4 |
St. Mary's Varsity |
MSU Esports |
Loss (0-2) |
| Week 5 |
LSU R6 |
St. Mary's Varsity |
Loss (1-2) |
Full Season Statistics
Collegiate Esports Association (CEA)
After five weeks of regular season play, St. Mary's was successful in placing in the Open League playoff bracket. Within the league there are 8 geographic division, we participated in "Division 2" as one of 15 teams in the division, 125 overall teams competed in the CEA Fall regular season. Details for the CEA spring season have not yet been announced, but we plan to play and compete in CEA this spring. On Wednesday, October 21st we will compete in the 64-team single elimination playoffs bracket against Purdue.
Regular Season Matches
|
Team 1 (Home) |
Team 2 |
Map 1 |
Map 2 |
Outcome |
| Week 1 |
Texas A&M Esports |
St. Mary's University |
7-4 |
7-3 |
Loss |
| Week 2 |
St. Mary's University |
Eagle Esports |
6-6 |
5-7 |
Loss |
| Week 3 |
Arizona State University D2 |
St. Mary's University |
1-7 |
1-7 |
Win |
| Week 4 |
St. Mary's University |
University of Alabama Huntsville |
7-4 |
7-2 |
Win |
| Week 5 |
SDSU Aztec 6 |
St. Mary's University |
7-3 |
6-6 |
Loss |
Regular Season Standings
Open League Playoff Bracket
FACEIT: R6 Collegiate Championship 2020 Pre-Season
This Saturday St. Mary's will participate in their third match of the five-week preseason. The main season starts January 9th, 2020 and the overall prize pool is $30,000 in scholarships.
