Interschool E-sports Report

By Will Chen

During the first semester of the year Reservoir High School participated in a national Esports tournament for the sixth year in a row. This year, the core focus was on the popular team-based shooter Valorant, whereby one team attacks in order to plant the “spike” and the other defends sites to deny the attacking team the plant. Players select “agents”, characters with unique skills and abilities, and must buy weapons every round to ensure that their side wins.

Organised by Meta High School Esports the national tournament would run online for 10 weeks and feature 180 teams from more than 100 different schools spread across Australia.

This year, Reservoir High entered three teams into the Victorian Region, consisting of more than thirty teams from fifty schools across the state. RHS See Us Go finished well in the middle placing 12th and RHS Perma Stuck Iron finishing in a respectable 20th place.

The highlight for this year was our Year 11 team RHS Rice Workshop. Despite a slow start and continually matching up against higher skill ranked teams, they managed to finish in 3rd place across the state just missing out on finals.

Video games are a hobby that more and more people are sharing. It is wonderful to see so many students engage with that overlap of personal interest and school based extracurricular.

Congratulations to team RHS Rice Workshop consisting of Harry Huynh, Jackie Li, Lincoln Kosanlawath, Eddie Lu, Duy Huynh, Minh Tran & Anna Bui for achieving THIRD place this year.

We look forward to fielding more teams and participating again next year.

By Will Chen