Sheldon High School hosted ELC, Cherokee, and Okoboji on Friday for the first ever Siouxland Conference Esports Tournament. On the team side, Sheldon beat Okoboji in the first round 2 games to 0 and ELC Beat Cherokee 2 games to 0. Cherokee defeated Okoboji 2 games to 0 to take home 3rd place. In the finals ELC won 2 games to 1 against Sheldon. In the first game, the Orabs came out swinging and won 15 – 7. ELC made a comeback game two and tied 12 – 12 and ELC won the tie breaking matchup 3 points to 2. In game 3, ELC won 12 – 10, taking home the conference title.
On the individual side, the conference champion was Jesus Diaz of ELC, earning him 1st team all conference, along with Steven Meyer of Sheldon who placed 2nd. 2nd team all conference honors went to Bill Kamstra of Sheldon who placed 3rd, and Avery Hamm of ELC who placed 4th.
Bracket results of the individual tournament can be found at https://sites.google.com/sheldonschools.com/esportsconferencetourney?usp=sharing
Many of the matches can be found on the OrabsLive Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1_2ayn5tc or at OkobojiEsports YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAosT6a_2GA
For postseason, ELC has the 2nd seed and Sheldon has the 4th seed, with both teams earning a free bid to the state tournament on Friday November 20th. 9th seed Cherokee plays 8th seed Williamsburg to see if they can punch in their ticket to the tournament on Tuesday.
For Marvel Rivals, 3rd seed Sheldon has their playoff game against 10th seed Hampton-Dumont-CAL to see who gets a trip to their state tournament which is Wednesday November 18th.
