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Edit because I forgot to include original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/9x8msa/league_of_legends_esports_culture_is_spreading_to/
About a year ago I talked about how esports was spreading to schools rapidly and how (as the title nods) I love it. It was posted on this subreddit, it still remains my top post to this day.
Well let me tell you about the results a year later. I was one of the founders of the team. We had one team at first, my coach only had a few students to work with since he didn't announce the esports program to our school yet. At the time of 2nd semester, we had about 7 students to work with and we fought a neighboring school in our district, who smashed us due to have Plat average players and we had Silver average players (I'm only silver rip.) That didn't last too long though, we publicized our esports program to the whole school and two teams to satisfy the amount of new members we were potentially getting. My spot as a player on the main team was soon gone as we got two diamond players and a gold player, which added on to our already gold mid laner and top laner who was Plat in Korea before he moved here (Literally Korean Import LOL.)
So that was cool, after the year was over we had a bunch of summer practices, my teacher established both of our teams as Varsity and Junior Varsity and when the year started, that's when everything got groovy. A few months after school started, the season started and we started competing with playvs and CHSAA holding the season. Our Varsity team proceeded to go 16-0 against 18 other teams in our entire state state, yes our entire state!
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/FMckRjF
As you know from the picture, we're 16-0 with our amazing Varsity teams who are now going to playoffs with a bye. (School names were hidden so we don't get doxxed lol.) Our Junior Varsity (due to financial issues on the players side) is not competing unfortunately, instead we are readying to get on the Varsity team which have 3 seniors.
I think what makes this so special to me is that our school is not the best. In fact, not a lot of people like it. It's considered to be in the ghetto and many students in our attendance zone choose to open enroll to rival schools to get a better education. This makes for poor funding and a handful a fights. I find it amazing that we managed to get to 2 diamond players in an underpopulated school that was about to shutdown more times then you could count. It's also unbelievable that the school who was previously 14-0 with us is one with 5x as much students as ours (5000 of them!) They have way less minority and is sponsored heavily, an NFL players' kid goes there! There were also rumors that they had 4 Diamond players and we still beat them. It amazed me that my school who is heavily looked down upon, (often my school is used to insult me and my friends by others) is currently the only undefeated school in our state.
TL;DR: My school's (considered to be in the ghetto) varsity team is 16-0 out of our whole state and going to playoffs.
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