SMSU ATHLETICS: SMSU Esports prepares for postseason Valorant tournament | News, Sports, Jobs

MARSHALL — The Southwest Minnesota Condition Esports team opens its postseason Valorant event on Monday, April 18, after a dominant typical year.
The Mustangs went 7- in the Emergents Cyan Division, a single of nine teams to finish the common season undefeated. Of the 146 teams in the Countrywide Esports Collegiate Meeting (NECC), SMSU was the only team to get each individual one map, heading 14-. The Mustangs also won 182 rounds, although only getting rid of 99 rounds, just one of 5 groups to drop considerably less than 100 rounds through the time.
Valorant is a first-particular person shooter recreation in teams of five played in a greatest of 3 structure, with just about every game counting as a “map.” For each map, the groups enjoy up to 25 rounds, with the first workforce to acquire 13 rounds winning the map.
“I’m very proud of the path this application is headed in only our 2nd year.” Reported Head Coach Spencer Louwagie. “We search to go on this domination by the playoffs which arrives off the back again of the challenging perform the student-athletes have set in.
The best-seeded Mustangs will acquire on eighth-seeded Houston Impervious in the quarterfinals on Monday, with motion established to start at 7 p.m. All SMSU Esport matches can be observed on the SMSU Esport Twitch webpage.
— Content courtesy
of SMSU Athletic Communications







