At the TexSEF State Esports Competition Frenship students competed in Overwatch, Rocket League, and Super Smash Bros. The competition holds pool play with eliminations, similar to the esports world cup, to narrow down the competitors. All but one of the Frenship teams made it out of the pool play.  

Once the pool play was over, then the organization set up a bracket where students competed with all the teams that had made it out of the pool play. At the end of the competition Frenship Overwatch placed 9th out of 32 teams, The Rocket League teams earned 9th and 20th out of 37 teams, and in Super Smash Bros. Adrian Grady placed 17th and Diego Gutierrez got 33rd out of 159 total competitors. 

Brian Singletary, the Esports coach at Frenship High School, stated that the students were excited to compete in person at the event instead of just streaming online.  

“The students really enjoyed the atmosphere of the event, the set up was amazing,” said Singletary. “They also enjoyed seeing competition from areas outside of what we normally play against. It gave everyone an incentive to work hard and make it back next year.” 

Esports gives students who may not be involved in school a way to participate in school related events. Esports is a growing sport with more and more colleges adding teams every year and even providing students with scholarships. Esports also helps students learn tools necessary to communicate with a team, plan, react and adjust to what they are doing. 

The Frenship Esports team is continuing to grow and are always looking for opportunities to develop the program and enhance their level of competition.  

Congratulations to all the Frenship students that competed at state!  

Bryson Hodnett, Issac Deleon, Dakota Severson, Jaxon Pleasant, Isabelle Gutierrez, Jayden Butt, Jacob Lawrence, Blake Etchison, Robert (Wyatt) Varis, Derek Stratton, Kayleb Torres, David (DJ) Casey, Amari Griffin, Braxton Potts, Adrian Grady, and Diego Gutierrez.