Eagle eSports team starts of season with win

By Eben Rosentrater

The CSC eSports team kicked off its fall Rocket League season strong after winning their first varsity contest of the year 3-2, against the Lions of Emerson College

“It felt great to kick off the Rocket League season with a win,” CSC eSports Student Head Coach Drew Kurtenbach stated in a text, “We had really just done a couple of scrimmages and got a forfeit up to this point so getting into a match was a huge test. But it definitely got us moving in the right direction for the season.”

The Eagle Rocket League team was set to start off its season on Sept. 30 against the Vikings of Missouri Valley College, but, due to player issues, the Vikings were forced to forfeit, giving the Eagles their first win of the season. This meant that the Eagles would officially kick off their season against Emerson College.

The Eagles struggled in the first two games of the contest. On the verge of being swept in the third game, the team rallied back and took the next three games to win the contest in a “reverse sweep” as Kurtenbach stated. Like volleyball, Rocket League matches are scored based on a best three-out-of-five system where five games are played and the first team to win three takes the match.

Kurtenbach and the eSports club are proud of the great start to the Rocket League season and hope that it will be an example of the team’s performance later in the season.

“I really like the energy the team brings into the room,” Kurtenbach stated, “You can tell they want to win, and more than anything, continue to improve.”

The Eagle Rocket League team will be back in action on Oct. 24 when they take on the Spartans of Michigan State University.