The WVU Tech esports Counterstrike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) team took on the Faulkner University Eagles in a late-night match, earning a 2-0 victory Wednesday. A five-player squad of BiggE (Gelacio Lopez-McDonald, Sr.), Buck (Matthew Buckland, Soph.), Dawceno (Dawson Tharp, Soph.), Cardinel (William Kelly-Crapse, Fr.) and Bird (Kathan Kiser, Soph.) earned the team's first win of the season after falling to Drexel last week.
CS:GO is a tactical first-person shooter where two teams, terrorists and counter-terrorists, play a best-of-30 round match of objective based combat. The terrorist team works to plant a bomb at certain points on the map while the counter-terrorists work to prevent it, or diffuse it if it's been planted. The team that achieves these objectives, or eliminates all five of the other players, wins the round. After 15 rounds, the halfway point of a game, the two teams switch sides, so the team playing as counter-terrorists switches to terrorists and vice versa. Matches are played as a best-of-three game format.
In game one, Faulkner got off to fast start, winning the first three rounds. Then the Golden Bears got into gear, going on a 8-0 run. Faulkner got the next round, but Tech responded with another 4-0 round streak to make the score 12-4 in WVU Tech's favor. After an exchange of round wins, and a Faulkner 3-0 run late, WVU Tech sealed a game one win with a final 3-0 run, taking the game with a score of 16-8.
In game two, Faulkner again tried to gain the early initiative, winning the first two rounds. Tech thwarted that momentum with a round win, dropped the next, then went another dominant 7-0 run to open up an 8-3 lead on the Eagles. After Faulkner stopped that run with a round win, the two sides exchanged 3-0 round streaks to make the score 11-7 for the Golden Bears. The teams would go back and forth in rounds from there, but Faulkner was unable to close the gap and WVU Tech wrapped up an overall victory with a 16-11 game two win.
The Counterstrike team moves to 1-1 on the season and plays again Friday night against Camden County College (2-0).
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