Esports 11/4/2025 10:13:00 AM

Blinn Call of Duty sweeps Central in regular-season finale, while League of Legends falls to Guilford

The Buccaneers are awaiting their seed for the upcoming NJCAA Esports Call of Duty national tournament

Esports 11/4/2025 10:13:00 AM

Blinn Call of Duty sweeps Central in regular-season finale, while League of Legends falls to Guilford

The Buccaneers are awaiting their seed for the upcoming NJCAA Esports Call of Duty national tournament

The Blinn College esports team went 1-1 across two matches Monday, including a regular-season-ending victory in Call of Duty play.

The Buccaneers defeated Central Community College 3-0 in a best-of-five series for their fifth consecutive NJCAA Esports (NJCAAe) victory, while Blinn's League of Legends team came up short in 2-0 series loss to Guilford Technical Community College to conclude its NJCAAe regular season.

Blinn's team of Jaden Navarro, Aariz Ali, Karsyn Krchnak, and Jordan Vo picked up a decisive Call of Duty win as it prepares for the upcoming NJCAAe playoffs. Blinn finished the regular season 7-2.

The matchup pitted the four Bucs against the Raiders, with the teams attempting to collect three wins across three modes of play in the first-person-shooter game:

Hardpoint: Teams secure rotating capture points, earning points for control. A team wins by reaching 250 points first.
Search and Destroy: Teams alternate attacking and defending, with the goal to plant or defuse an objective. The first team to win 6 rounds claims victory.
Control: Teams attack and defend two capture points, with limited lives adding an elimination aspect. The first team to win three rounds claims victory.

Blinn prevailed 250-96 on the Rewind map in the Hardpoint round; picked up a 6-3 victory on the Protocol map in Search and Destroy; and closed out the series with a 3-0 sweep on the Hacienda map in Control play.

"I'm happy that our regular season ended on this run," Bucs assistant coach and Call of Duty coach Ryan Lucich said. "We won the matches we needed to and set ourselves up to be in a good spot for playoffs. We secured either the second or third seed heading into the bracket next week. Hopefully we will ride this momentum and show how high our potential really is."

Seeds and matchups for the NJCAAe tournament have yet to be fully determined.

Blinn's night of play concluded with a League of Legends setback.

The team of Aiden House, Braxton Jones, Nicolas Lawless, Juan Diego Castro Venegas, and Odili Oheri competed for Blinn.

League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) where teams of five players draft champions with unique abilities to work together to gain control over a map. The game's objective is to destroy the enemy Nexus while securing objectives like turrets, inhibitors, and neutral monsters. Teams must control a map and destroy a Nexus while contesting neutral objectives such as Dragons and Baron Nashor for powerful boosts.

The Bucs are 2-4 in NJCAAe matches and could still make the playoffs but will need some favorable results from other teams in the NJCAAe.

"We are waiting to see how it plays out, but we hope this wasn't our last game of the season," said Lucich, who also coaches League of Legends. "I'm proud of my players for continuing to have an attitude of improvement, and we'll continue to go to work this week in hopes that we'll have a playoff match next Monday."

Blinn has competed in intercollegiate athletics since 1903 and captured 53 national championships since 1987.

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Players Mentioned

Aiden House: Sophomore; League of Legends

Juan Diego Castro Venegas: Freshman; League of Legends

Braxton Jones: Sophomore; League of Legends

Aariz Ali: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Karsyn Krchnak: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Jaden Navarro: Freshman; Call of Duty

Jordan Vo: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Players Mentioned

Aiden House
: Sophomore; League of Legends

Juan Diego Castro Venegas
: Freshman; League of Legends

Braxton Jones
: Sophomore; League of Legends

Aariz Ali
: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Karsyn Krchnak
: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Jaden Navarro
: Freshman; Call of Duty

Jordan Vo
: Sophomore; Call of Duty