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ESPORTS … Briauna Entenman, Philip Berry, Ava Boehm, and Paige Lyons compete against Bellevue while Nole Carpenter checks out some online stats.
Bryan High School plays in the ESO (Esports Ohio) Esports league and Mario Kart consists of teams of 4 players racing against each other in a best of 3 rounds. A round is made of 4 randomly selected tracks and players in finishing positions score points for their team.
The team with the highest point total after the four races wins that round. Bryan won an early match against Monroe Central, 2-0.
The first round featured Trae Krebs, Owen Davis, Briauna Entenman, and Ava Boehm winning 88-36. The second round featured Addalynne Jesse, Nole Carpenter, Paige Lyons, and Philip Berry winning 71-53.
On October 2, Bryan won a match versus Bellevue to move to 1-2 on the season. Round 1 started out as a pretty close set of duals with Bryan trailing 5-6, but Philip Berry was able to eliminate the three remaining players on Bellevue with a 7-2 run resulting in a final round 1 score of 12-8 in favor of the Golden Bears.
Round 2 was controlled by Bryan’s Conner Westgate, eliminating three Bellevue players racking up 9 stock wins. Bellevue went on the offensive with their fourth and final player defeating Conner and allowing Bryan’s second player, Trae Krebs, to clean up the mess going 3-1 and securing Round 2 for Bryan 12-4. Conner Westgate led the team over two rounds with 13 total stocks taken with Philip Berry winning a total of 7 stocks.
On Wednesday, October 9, Bryan lost the best of three series 1-2 to Whitmer and moved to an overall record of 1-3 on the season. Round 1 was dominated by Whitmer, only losing a total of 4 stocks to the Golden Bears.
Round 2 was a tight battle with each team knocking out their respective matchup going 6-6 into the last two fighters for each team.
Trae Krebs was able to finish off the last two fighters from Whitmer by running a 3-0 set against the fourth Whitmer player with only one of his own stocks (lives) remaining and winning Round 2 for Bryan 12-11.
In round 3, Bryan was unable to put together an offensive run, dropping the round with a score of 5-12. Bryan’s next match will be next Wednesday, October 16th starting around 3:40pm.
We have started to capture some of our gameplay and will be posting some basic video footage on our YouTube page found at the link provided below. We hope to add some form of streamcasting in the near future.
Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@_BHS_Esports