Earlier this year the East Coast Conference announced that they will host their first regular season in League of Legends beginning in February 2019, culminating in the first ECC championship hosted at NYIT on March 30.
Institutions that have committed to participate this year so far are Daemen, LIU Post, Mercy, Molloy, New York Institute of Technology, and St Thomas Aquinas.
But some of our schools' seasons are already off and running in 2018. Here are a few highlights:
St. Thomas Aquinas
The St. Thomas Aquinas College eSports team opens their 2018-2019 schedule on Saturday, October 13th with three Fortnite matches and League of Legends competition.
As part of the Collegiate Starleague Preseason series, they face off against fellow ECC member Daemen College in League of Legends at 1 p.m. and later compete against both SUNY Canton and Rochester Institute of Technology in Fortnite matches at 3 p.m.
Live streams of the matches are available at https://www.twitch.tv/stacspartanesports
For more information on St. Thomas Aquinas Esports go to https://www.stacathletics.com/landing/index
Daemen
Daemen played in a best-of-five match vs. St. John Fisher recently at gaming cafe, GameOnLan in Western N.Y. The exciting match went all five games with Daemen coming out on top 3-2.
As noted above, Daemen is competing in the Collegiate Star League and will play a few more League of Legends matches following their opener with STAC on Saturday. They are also competing in the American Video Game League (AVGL) this fall and have already started their season in Hearthstone as part of TESPA.
For more info on Daemen E Sports go to: https://daemenwildcats.com/sports/2018/1/31/daemen-esports.aspx
NYIT
NYIT has played matches in four different games since the beginning of the semester including Rainbow 6 North American University Siege League where they played agains Liberty and Miami University. The Overwatch Team is deep into the Tespa Overwatch Collegiate Championship Preseason. Starcraft and Hearthstone have also started their seasons of in Tespa tournaments winning both of their first matches vs their opponents. They also plan to play in the Collegiate Star League this spring playing Smash.
NYIT will be participating in an Overwatch tournament on Oct 15 at Roosevelt Field Mall - Microsoft Store as part of “Microsoft Mondays” and will be announcing their League of Legends team soon to begin practice and prepare for the upcoming ECC spring season.
For more information on NYIT Esports go to https://nyitbears.com/sports/2018/7/30/cybears.aspx
Coming Up
Watch for news about the League of Legends challenge match this fall with our friends from the south, fellow NCAA DII member, the Peach Belt Conference.
