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E-Victory! CIU Rams Sweep in Inaugural ESports Match

CIU Rams Esports Coach Scotty Grigsby high fives his team in their victory over ECPI.

September 15, 2021

By Alex Brickey

CIU Student Writer

Students crowded into 蜜桃视频鈥檚 Hoke auditorium. Glowsticks shown in the dark as students excitedly anticipated CIU鈥檚 inaugural intercollegiate match.

The night got underway with a Super Smash Brothers game followed by a brief word from 蜜桃视频 who told the hundreds of students and staff in attendance that it was amazing to see that the work of all of those involved to make esports happen had paid off. He also prayed asking the momentous occasion would ultimately glorify God.

The event went off smoothly. was the game being played. In the game, players are a car with the objective of getting a large ball into a goal. The game is basically an advanced version of 鈥渃ar soccer鈥 as some have dubbed it.

, , , and brought home victory, winning four games in a row against ECPI University.

After the match, student Tucker Chapman, one of the 鈥淲atch Party鈥 hosts, called the match 鈥渆xciting.鈥

鈥淚t was a great environment and it is definitely cool to see the student body support athletes of every type,鈥 Chapman said. 听

CIU's esports team is considered a varsity sport and has the same scholarship programs as the other sports on campus.

Chandler Carlisle, a senior, said adding esports is one of the best decisions CIU has ever made.

鈥淚t is something that's growing a lot,鈥 Carlisle said. 鈥淚t was probably the most entertaining sports event I've ever been to in the past three years I鈥檝e been here.鈥

CIU is a part of the South Carolina Esports Conference that includes Clemson, Lander, College of Charleston, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.听Approximately 300 colleges across the United States have esports programs.

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