Barberton High School Esports

Barberton High School has entered the exciting world of esports! Through this website, you will be able to stay up to date on the games our program has to offer, what times games/practices will be, photos of recent events and activities, as well as be able to learn more about just what esports is and what it has to offer our students.

Our esports team is a part of the Esports Ohio league. Through the league, we compete with approximately 120 different high schools and  across multiple games. There are over 350 teams and nearly 1800 students in ESO. ESO's website and more information about their league can be found here.

Overwatch 2 Videos

CLICK HERE to view our playlists of our recorded Overwatch 2 matches for the BHS Esports team!


Recent News

May1st, 2024

The Barberton esports team traveled to Baldwin Wallace University to explore their esports program and campus. Some of our players had already been to some of the campus for the Northeast Regionals during the main season, though they were happy to further explore the campus and talk to the players+coach at BW. Below are some photos from the trip.

April 14th, 2024

The Overwatch Varsity team competed over the weekend in the ESO State finals. The team played hard, but was unable to bring home the ultimate victory. We are proud of our players, and hope to return to the state level of competition next season and go even further than before. Below are some pictures from the event.

March 28th, 2024

Our esports teamed celebrated the end of their season with our yearly overnight event to do some team building and gaming. Below are some pictures of the event, held at the Barberton Public Library. It was a wonderful time as always, and we look forward to another great year of esports ahead of us. This year, we also celebrated our Varsity Overwatch team moving on to states next month and the Apex team for winning their finals earlier this season. We can only hope to bring such accolades back to Barberton in future seasons as well.

March 18th, 2024

Over the weekend our Overwatch and Rocket League teams competed at the Northeast Regional to determine which teams might qualify for States in April. Although our Rocket League team played hard, they were unable to advance beyond the firs tround. Our Overwatch team was able to not only advance, but also win the entire regional! This gives them entrance to States and the better seed in the Group Stage. This is the first time that a Barberton Overwatch Esports team has qualified for States. We are excited to see how much further the team will go in April when States commence.

March 13th, 2024

Congratulations to our APEX Club team! They have brought home the first championship win for Barberton, handily defeating their opponents in the APEX finals. We are proud of the hard work put forth by our players and their coach. Coach Jake Testa and his players Jake Stover, Deryk Bailey, and Zakuwr Wilson worked so hard to achieve this and we are happy to celebrate them.

March 12th, 2024

Our club chess team placed 2nd in their first season with ESO. We are proud of their hardwork and hope to see them return for another strong season next year. Coach Bill Lane did a great job with the team preparing them for such a tough season. The players worked diligently to hone their skills and although they were unable to bring home the championship, they showed great skill and diligence throughout the season.

February 28th, 2024

We have completed our regular season with ESO. We are proud of all of our teams accomplishments.

The following teams have qualified for post season play: Fortnite JV Line A, Overwatch JV, Overwatch Varsity, Chess Club, Rocket League Varsity, APEX Club.

January 23rd, 2024

We are working to get the varsity casts created again this season, however we do not have any games cast at this time for Overwatch. We hope to get recordings done for some of our matches this season soon. The frequent updates have been causing us to lose footage before we are able to produce a cast unfortunately.

January 7th, 2024

Tomorrow will begin the start of the winter/spring 2024 season with esports Ohio and our BHS Esports teams. We are excited to be fielding more teams than ever before this season, offering Fortnite, APEX, Rocket League, Overwatch, Chess, and Magic Arena.

We wish all our players good luck this season and are excited to see where 2024 takes us. Go Magics!

PREVIOUS NEWS

Information and stories from previous school years can be found in the Archive section of this website. The archive is where the majority of information from previous seasons can be found.


November 16th, 2023

All of our esports teams have finished for the season. Although we were unable to secure top spot in the Fall Classic for the different teams we sent to compete, we are proud of the players for all their hard work and making the journey to arrive at the finals.

For now, we will have a brief time recess between now and next season. Tryouts for next season will begin the first full week of December. We hope to see many of our players return, as well as acquire some new talent interested in competing in esports for Barberton High School.

November 6th, 2023

We are now in postseason for Fall 2023 esports! The teams listed below have qualified for postseason play, which will begin this Friday and continue throughout next week. We will put links out for any live streams that happen for the matches.

Teams Qualifying for Postseason

October 31st, 2023

We have our JV cast uploaded from today, however the Varsity OW team's lobby had an error and were unable to generate replay codes. Scores are still reported in the match results page, but we will not have footage again this week for Varsity.

October 20th, 2023

Unfortunately, due to a rare Thursday night update from Overwatch, we were unable to get our recordings done of the games for both JV and Varsity. We apologize for this, as we love making sure fans can have a place to see how the teams are doing. JV's game was absolutely outstanding as they came back from a tough round 1 loss against Shaker Heights, ultimately taking the series 3-1. We will do our best to continue to record and upload matches for our fans as quickly as possible to try and provide you with insightful commentary and exciting gameplay. Thank you for your continued support.

October 12th, 2023

The Esports team headed out to take a tour of the Kent State University campus and esports space today. The team got to meet and talk with their head coach and players from the various teams, as well as do some gaming at their esports arena. It was a great time and the students were very impressed with the space that Kent has put together for their students. We've got some photos of the trip below. The funding for our lunches were provided by grant money by GAR, which the kids certainly appreciated at KSU's fine dining halls!


September 2023

The Esports season for fall 2023 has begun! Our teams are starting to get ready for their first matches in a few weeks. We are excited to share the results of this season with you.

August 2023

The Barberton HS Esports season will be getting underway soon. We will have our first meeting for interested students during Magic Time on Monday, August 28th in A150. Tryouts will follow from there and we will form our fall teams. Tryout dates are listed below and will begin at 2:35 on their respective dates.

September 5th: Overwatch Tryouts

September 6th: Rocket League & APEX Legends Tryouts

September 11th: Fortnite Tryouts

This map shows the various schools signed up for the ESO league that we are a part of.