STORM LAKE, Iowa - The Buena Vista University Esports squad opened up competition on Monday and Tuesday with Call of Duty competing in their first season of the Collegiate Call of Duty League (CCL) and
Joshua Tigges taking part in the Collegiate iRacing spring league. Last fall Tigges finished 18th in points in the Collegiate iRacing Series.
On Monday, January 17 the BVU Main COD team were scheduled to take on in state opponents Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. The Beavers received a forfeit victory over Iowa State University before falling 3-0 against the University of Iowa. The squad opened up against Iowa playing game mode Hardpoint. The squad ended up falling 250-68. Taryn Crocket Robles led the way with 12 eliminations while
Alejandro Rojas had 10. In the second game mode of Search and Destroy the team fell 6-1 with Robles leading the way again with four eliminations. In the final round of Hardpoint the squad fell 250-32 with Robles leading the way with 17 eliminations.
Kyle Miller followed with nine eliminations.
On Tuesday, January 18th the BVU Academy COD team competed against Wisconsin-La Crosse and Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville. It was a tough night for the squad as they fell 3-0, 3-0.
In iRacing
Joshua Tigges open up his season at the Texas Motor Speedway. Tigges qualified straight to the feature where he ended up finishing 24th our of 30 racers. The race did not go his way as he got caught up in some early messes. After a 20-lap great flag run to start the race, a caution was brought out an bunched everyone up. Unfortunately, that meant there was a train that bunched up in the tight tri-oval. Ultimately, Tigges got hooked in the right rear and was turned in front of the pack to bring out another caution and totaled his car. He was forced to use his only fast repair and attempted to work his way back through the field from a lap down. The race ended up going green the rest of the way. He was able to make a last lap pass to finish 24th. He will look to qualify to race in the Premiere Series again in two weeks at North Wilkesboro on February 1st.
Next week the Main Call of Duty team will take on Greenville University and Dakota State University at 6:30 pm and 8 pm on Monday, January 24 while the Academy team will play University of Iowa and University of Illinois at 8 pm and 9:30 pm.
NECC will start their activation play next week with Rocket League, Rainbow Six, Valorant and League of Legends taking part in those while Rocket League Navy and Smash Brothers will open up play in NACE competition.
