It’s safe to say that the Spring 2020 semester progressed like nobody thought it would.\u00a0 Read more about the accomplishments of our teams below!<\/p>\n
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Call of Duty –\u00a0<\/strong>Call of Duty returned to activity this spring, playing in the College CoD League Season 2.\u00a0 The team finished 7th in the Midwest region with a 10-7 record, placing in the top 32 in the end-of-season tournament.<\/p>\n Fortnite –\u00a0<\/strong>The fall 2019 Collegiate Star League season playoffs were delayed to January 2020 – the Bulldogs competed and earned 4th place in the league!<\/p>\n Hearthstone –\u00a0<\/strong>After consolidating from three Hearthstone teams in the fall to one in the spring, Butler competed in the Tespa Collegiate Open – for two weeks, before the spring competitive season, along with Tespa’s Overwatch and Call of Duty competitions, were suspended indefinitely because of complications of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n League of Legends – <\/strong>This spring, the newly-formed Butler Challengers took over for Delta to finish out the Collegiate Star League season 4-7, as well as making an appearance in the Upsurge Junior League regular season.\u00a0 Challengers competed in a season of GGLeagues competition, finishing 2-4.<\/p>\n Overwatch –\u00a0<\/strong>As mentioned previously, the Tespa Overwatch spring season was suspended indefinitely halfway through competition; the Bulldogs’ 1-2 record in the first three matches looked very promising regardless!\u00a0 No news has come out yet about potentially rescheduling or finishing either Tespa season.<\/p>\n Rainbow Six: Siege –\u00a0<\/strong>Butler picked up a pair of wins in the spring Collegiate R6 season, continuing to make steady improvements as they go.<\/p>\n Rocket League –\u00a0<\/strong>Rocket League A went 4-2 in the spring to finish the Collegiate Star League 8-4 overall, just missing season playoffs, while Rocket League B finished 2-10 in the same division.\u00a0 The CRL Spring qualifier also proved elusive to the Bulldogs in January.<\/p>\n VALORANT – <\/strong>Despite being in the very early stages of the competitive scene, Butler fielded a team for a VALORANT tournament for the first time ever this spring.\u00a0 It’s a promising sign of things to come for the newest competitive title widely viewed as a future esports phenomenon.<\/p>\n BIG EAST Teams –<\/strong> Butler’s BIG EAST League of Legends squad competed this spring in a regular season through ESL until the middle of March, when COVID-19 affected that league as well, moving future matches to online play without ESL production.\u00a0 In a double round robin against 7 other BIG EAST schools, Butler finished with a .500 record to earn 5th place in the conference.\u00a0 In Rocket League, a BIG EAST spring season was also played with the help of EGF, Butler finished 6th in the BIG EAST at 3-5 and did not qualify to advance in the EGF Rocket League Collegiate Power Series.<\/p>\n In club news, despite a pandemic moving classes online for the second half of the semester and throwing off normal patterns, a new slate of officers was elected for the 2020-21 academic year.<\/p>\n We want to be sure to recognize Jack Glynn, our outgoing VP of Operations, and Andy Casa, our outgoing Treasurer, for their outstanding work as members of the officer board!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s safe to say that the Spring 2020 semester progressed like nobody thought it would.\u00a0 Read more about the accomplishments of our teams below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-semester-in-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/12\/Tespa-Banner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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