The school is holding an Esports League on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45-5:00 pm in the library computer room. Mr. McGee is the advisor for the league. 

We play Rocket League, it's essentially car soccer. The game is easy to learn but hard to master. We play against schools around the country. The objective is to drive a car, ram it into the ball and try to score a goal. An explosion of light happens when you score a goal. We figure out who is going to be in for the round, as it's a 3v3 game. One person is the goalie, the others are on offense. The difficulty of the game really depends on how good the other team is. That doesn’t matter to me though, I just play for fun.

”Rocket League will run up to Nov. 16th at which point we will enter the playoffs from Nov. 17th through Dec. 8th,” Mr.Mcgee says.

None of us have any idea what we’re doing next, as there will be a vote. Three games in the vote are League of Legends, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Half of us don’t like League of Legends, including me, so I’m willing to say that one is out of the question. There are currently four (sometimes five)  people on the team.

“I really like the relationships that are developing between our team members and how they are learning to work together.  Right now we are struggling to win games because not many of our players have much experience with Rocket League, but what is so encouraging is that no one on the team is blaming anyone else, we are all working together to find solutions and improve our game as a team,” Mr.McGee says

Tuesdays are scrimmage days, we practice by playing against each other until about 3:45 pm. After that, we play a practice match against another school. Thursdays are game days, we practice, then at 4:00 pm the game starts. We don’t know what schools we went up against on the first day. After the first game we can see who we’re going up against. Last week we were doing a scrimmage against the champions of last year's Esports competition. Then on Thursday, we were doing a match against a completely different school in Washington D.C. 

So far we're doing fine, most of us hadn’t touched the game in years by the time the league started last week. There is still a lot we need to learn in this game. We haven't won a game yet, but I’m confident we will sometime in the next few months. 

“We started the Esports club because it supports many of the soft skills we promote and want our students to learn. Club members are already seeing how important communication and collaboration are in order to be a successful team. You can't do well in Rocket League without working together,” Mr. McGee says.