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The Texas A&M Esports team<\/a> started the new year by taking the top prize in the Collegiate Valorant Hub Winter Warmup Invitational on Jan. 7, defeating the University of Waterloo (Canada) in the final round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seven-person team, known as TAMU Maroon, defeated those from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Illinois Chicago, Toronto Metropolitan University, Florida International University and Fisher College en route to the title matchup. Thirty-two teams participated in the weekend event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The team is advised by the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts<\/a>. Team members practice and play remotely and put in more than 10 hours a week preparing for tournaments, said team member Nick Barrionuevo, a junior multidisciplinary engineering major. He joined the team in fall 2021 after transferring from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and said he found his way to Esports through his love of sports competition and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing here at A&M, joining the Esports team has given me an opportunity to meet some great people and continue playing this game at the highest level I can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAMU Maroon moved up to No. 6 in the Valorant collegiate team rankings<\/a> with the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The championship match<\/a> involved three first-person hero shooter games: Ascent, Bind and Icebox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach character has their own gimmicks and quirks and brings their own utility that they use,\u201d Barrionuevo said. \u201cBut everyone has access to the same weapons and armor. Everyone has four unique abilities which can range from weapons or a smoke grenade or a flash bang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The semifinal win over Fisher College, then ranked No. 3, was especially gratifying after TAMU Maroon lost to the Massachusetts school earlier in the season, Barrionuevo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were able to play them and beat them, so that was a very good victory to have under our belts,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was definitely our most competitive game for the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team had to shuffle players for the final round. Barrionuevo was ill, and substitute player Dylan Nguyen, a junior management information systems major, stepped in to replace him. The team defeated Waterloo, 3-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrionuevo said TAMU Maroon\u2019s outlook is a good one, with early success while introducing a new player on the roster: Ethan Dinh, a sophomore finance major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a very good testament,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving the player mesh very well and seeing it come to fruition fairly quickly was a very good thing for us to see, especially when we were going up against really good teams like Fisher Navy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinh said he was pleased to win the event but noted there are challenges ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gave us all a decent idea of how we match up against the other good collegiate teams,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was really important since we are player-run, and we all have our opinions on the best way to approach matches and where we stand. This tournament should just be a steppingstone for us to improve and hopefully become the No. 1 team in collegiate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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