Esports 3/26/2025 12:04:00 AM

Blinn Call of Duty tops Northeastern Alabama in NJCAAe match

The Buccaneers' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team went 2-5 in seven NJCAAe one-on-one tilts

Esports 3/26/2025 12:04:00 AM

Blinn Call of Duty tops Northeastern Alabama in NJCAAe match

The Buccaneers' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team went 2-5 in seven NJCAAe one-on-one tilts

The Blinn College esports team competed in Call of Duty and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate play Tuesday.

The Buccaneers' Call of Duty squad earned a 3-0 victory over Northeastern Alabama Community College in a best-of-five NJCAA Esports (NJCAAe) tilt.

Blinn's Jordan Vo, Aariz Ali, Isaias Nieto, and Travis Stansberry earned the win as the Bucs improved to 3-2 in NJCAAe play.

The matchup pitted the four Bucs against the Mustangs, with each team 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.

The win secured a playoff spot for Blinn with one regular-season match remaining.

"We have really been playing well lately and we're on the right track to reach our peak heading into playoffs," Blinn assistant coach and Call of Duty manager Ryan Lucich said.

The Bucs battle Dallas College North Lake in their NJCAAe regular-season finale at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1.

Blinn's Super Smash Bros. team competed in seven one-on-one NJCAAe matches Tuesday and finished 2-5.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a crossover fighting game where players, either in one-on-one or four-on-four matches, aim to knock each other off a combat stage. The objective is for players to inflict damage to increase their opponents' likelihood of being knocked off the platform. In singles play, each player has a set number of lives or "stocks," and the match is won by reducing the opponent's stocks to zero. In crew battles, teams take turns battling, with stock carryover. The team that eliminates all opposing players' stocks first wins. Series are often best-of-three or best-of-five.

Blinn's Kiara Molina took on an opponent from Dallas College Richland and fell 3-0. Gabe Pipes went 1-1 on the night with a 3-0 victory over Dallas College Mountain View and a 3-0 setback at the hands of Jefferson College. Joshua Delossantos fell to Jefferson College 3-0. Gage Cole went 1-2 in three matches, opening with a 3-0 loss to Jefferson before bouncing back for a 3-2 triumph against Moberly Area Community College. He finished the night with a 3-1 loss to Laredo College.

Pipes moved to 8-4 in the NJCAAe Central 2 Conference, Cole is now 7-4 in the Central 1 Conference, Molina dropped to 3-8 in the Central 2, and Delossantos fell to 2-9 in the Central 1.

The Bucs will play makeup matches against Coastal Bend College and Laramie County Community College at 3 p.m. on Saturday and 6 p.m. on Monday, March 31, respectively. Blinn will then wrap up the regular season with eight tilts against Rose State College, Moberly Area, State Technical College of Missouri, St. Louis Community College, and Wichita State University Tech at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1.

Blinn has competed in intercollegiate athletics since 1903 and captured 50 national championships since 1987.

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Players Mentioned

Isaias Nieto: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Gage Cole: Freshman; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Gabe Pipes: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Kiara Molina: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Aariz Ali: Freshman; Call of Duty

Travis Stansberry: Sophomore; Call of Duty, Rocket League

Joshua Delossantos: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Jordan Vo: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Players Mentioned

Isaias Nieto
: Sophomore; Call of Duty

Gage Cole
: Freshman; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Gabe Pipes
: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Kiara Molina
: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Aariz Ali
: Freshman; Call of Duty

Travis Stansberry
: Sophomore; Call of Duty, Rocket League

Joshua Delossantos
: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Jordan Vo
: Sophomore; Call of Duty