Esports Spring Season Begins; Rogers Starts 2-0 In Super Smash Bros. 1v1s

February 18, 2025 - - The National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) Spring season kicked off on Tuesday with Tier 1 – Premier Series competition, beginning with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (SSBU) 1v1 matches.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1v1 – Best-of-Five

Robert Rogers (Lorain, Ohio/Clearview HS) started his season strong with two dominant victories in Tier 1 – Premier Series play on Tuesday night. He first faced Guilford Technical Community College, securing a 3-0 sweep, followed by another 3-0 win against Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, bringing his spring season record to 2-0.

Rogers is coming off an impressive fall season, where he advanced to the Tier 1 - Regional Grand Finals for SSBU before being eliminated just short of the National Finals.

Next Up:

There are no more Tier 1 matchups for the Commodores this week. Next week, competition will begin for Tier 2 and Tier 3 in the following games: Marvel Rivals, Tekken, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Hearthstone, Mario Kart, Valorant, and Super Smash Bros. Crew Battle.

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. Starting in the spring of 2025, LCCC begin competing in Marvel Rivals, a 6v6 Third person shooter game featuring characters from the Marvel Universe.

Madden, a football simulation game.

Tekken and Street Fighter, both hand-to-hand combat fighting games.