eSports Results for the Week of March 4th - March 7th

Another winning week of Cannoneer eSports starts with both Fortnite teams taking on Northeastern. Team 1 in game 1 of their matchup won a low scoring affair 7-1 in the elimination format. However, game 2 was a different story as both teams combine for 43 eliminations in the game. Unfortunately for Jefferson, they were on the losing side of this one, 28-15. Winner takes all game 3 and Ian Jarrard and Andrew Carroll stepped up combining for 29 eliminations (17 and 12) and would win game 3, 29-10. Team 2 would win go onto sweep their match as well as Andrew Pierce and Nick Derouin would win their series 2-0. 

The Cannoneer Call of Duty team matched up against Trinity Valley. In game 1 Jefferson found themselves in a back and forth hardpoint match in which they led big early on but watched as their lead shrunk through the game. Jefferson would go onto win game 1 250-223 off a strong performance from Adam Malinowski who tallied 127 seconds of objective time. Round 2 would be just as close as search and destroy would be decided by a map 11 finish. 11 kills from Riley Carter would propel Jefferson to a 2-0 series lead. Game 3 would remain just as competitive, unfortunately for Jefferson they could not complete a 3-0 sweep as they drop the match of control. Despite this loss, the team bounced right back for a dominating hardpoint victory in map 4 on the back of Dani Nicholson who totaled 24 kills and 159 seconds of objective time.  

Jefferson super smash players all fought tough battles as well this week. In 3 games, Jefferson players won 4-1, lost 4-0 and lost an incredible 4-3 matchup. The Cannoneer Valorant team also lost their match 2 games to 0 against Central Lakes College. There were no Overwatch or Rainbow 6 matches this week due to server issues.