
“I talked to some people from Austin College, and they were having the same recruitment issues we were having,” said Williams. Despite these radical changes, the team still managed to claim victory over Austin College.

“If anyone plays League, they are more than welcome to join.”ĭue to the recruitment problems, some veteran players had to switch to other roles in order to maximize the team’s competitiveness. “We had a player that joined last week,” said Shin.
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Another student who was playing on the team had to temporarily drop out as tournament rules require that the students involved in the scrimmages must be full time students, and the student in question took this semester off. One of the team’s support players is currently in China. We are playing with a roster that is completely brand new,” said Shin.īoth students emphasized that understanding your teammates is crucial to success, and each time a new player is added, the process restarts as they have to understand how the new person plays in order to best utilize their abilities. “We have one player that is in the top 0.9%,” said Williams, who is in the top 2% of all League of Legends players himself. This is just one of several problems that the pandemic has created for the League of Legends team.Ĭlaire Shin ’22 said that there were also recruitment problems due to the pandemic, and players that were on the winning roster back in 20 are now dispersed across the U.S. There, during SCAC 2019, his team managed to dominate the field, taking first place at the first ever SCAC esports tournament.

In the past, Williams went to Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, the holy grail for the esports team. When playing scrimmages, Williams likes to play as Kassadin, and generally likes to “play characters that do a lot of damage and capable of having influence in winning the game.”

Players can choose from a diverse set of in-game characters. League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle area where the objective is to eliminate the enemy fort. Initially, CC was down 1-2 before they, as Riley Williams ’21 described it, “clawed way back to get a victory.” The Colorado College League of Legends team participated in a scrimmage against Austin College on Feb. | SPORTS | By Ian Chalmers | Illustration by Xixi Qin
