Gabriel Beckstrom Falls In Tier 3 NJCAAE Semifinals; Plays For Third Place Wednesday
December 10, 2024 - - The Lorain County Community College esports team had one final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor alive in postseason play Tuesday night. Gabriel Beckstrom (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) was one win shy of making it to the Tier 3 Championship before he was ousted by Heartland Community College in a five-round thriller.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1v1 – Best-of-Five
Beckstrom started his run of four straight match wins in the Tier 3 playoffs by winning 11 straight rounds of play. First, he swept Northwest College and University of South Carolina Sumter 3-0 on Sunday, December 8, which put him into the final 16 of the tournament.
On Tuesday, Beckstrom defeated Marshalltown College in a 3-0 sweep and before he beat Rose State College in four rounds to move into the Tier 3 semi-finals.
Beckstrom then faced Heartland Community College who took the first two rounds before he was able to avoid elimination with wins in rounds three and four. Despite the comeback effort put on by Beckstrom to force a fifth and final round, Heartland won the final round eliminating him from championship contention.
Next Up:
Beckstrom is scheduled to play in the third place match on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. against Rose State College.
About CommodoreEsports:
LCCC's Esports team competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) which is split into three competition tiers: Tier 1 - Premier Series, Tier 2 - Contender Series, and Tier 3 - Open Series. There is a fall season (September-December) and a spring season (February-April). LCCC has players that compete in all three tiers, full-time students have a choice to compete in any tier. Tier 1 - Premier Series (PS) is the top-level of NJCAAE competition for members with teams made up of eligible students, Tier 2 - Contender Series (CS) competition is the mid-level of NJCAAE competition for members with teams made up of eligible students, and Tier 3 - Open Series (OS) competition is the open level of NJCAAE competition for members. In Tier 3, participants do not have to meet any Student Eligibility requirements but must be associated with LCCC. Both fall and spring seasons of competition run for seven weeks before the postseason begins.
Gaming titles that LCCC Esports plays in or has played in the past include:
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a fighting game, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a racing game, that feature characters from the Nintendo gaming universe on the Nintendo Switch. With Super Smash Bros. players can compete in individual competitions in a best-of-five match or in crew battle, an elimination style game in a 3v3 format.
Valorant, a PC first person shooting game where teams of five players compete in a best two-of-three match where the objective is for one team to place and detonate a spike while the other team tries to diffuse it. LCCC also competes in Overwatch 2, another first person shooting game and has also competed in Fortnite starting in 2024.
Madden, a football simulation game.
Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.