Esports 3/30/2025 11:59:00 AM

Blinn's Delossantos defeats Coastal Bend in Super Smash Bros. match

The sophomore earned a 3-1 win in the best-of-five series

Esports 3/30/2025 11:59:00 AM

Blinn's Delossantos defeats Coastal Bend in Super Smash Bros. match

The sophomore earned a 3-1 win in the best-of-five series

Blinn College sophomore Joshua Delossantos earned a victory over Coastal Bend College in an NJCAA Esports (NJCAAe) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate makeup matchup Saturday.

Delossantos earned a 3-1 win in the one-on-one best-of-five series.

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.

Delossantos dropped the first round of the match, but rebounded with 3-0, 3-2, and 3-1 victories to take the series.

He improved to 3-9 in the NJCAAe Central 1 Conference.

"Joshua had a strong performance against Coastal Bend tonight," Blinn head coach and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate manager Kyle Murto said. "After dropping the first game, he made key adjustments to earn the win, highlighted by a dominant shutout in game two and a tight, clutch finish in game three. While the season started off rocky for him, Joshua is showing real improvement and resilience in the final stretch of competition, and I am proud of him as he continues to fight. This win is a great confidence booster as he continues to finish the season strong."

Blinn Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will play a makeup match against Laramie County Community College at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 31. The Bucs will then wrap up the NJCAAe 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.

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Joshua Delossantos: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Players Mentioned

Joshua Delossantos
: Sophomore; Super Smash Bros Ultimate