{"id":25986,"date":"2024-02-27T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/?p=25986"},"modified":"2024-02-26T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:51:43","slug":"kccs-esports-club-welcomes-all-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/kccs-esports-club-welcomes-all-students\/","title":{"rendered":"KCC’s Esports Club Welcomes All Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re into Super Smash Bros, Xbox, or PC games, the Esports Club at KCC has a place for you. (Photo by Cameron Enomoto)<\/p>\n

By Cameron Enomoto | Staff Writer<\/h5>\n

The Esports Club at Kapi\u02bbolani Community College is the newest registered independent organization (RIO) on campus. Consisting of approximately 20 student members, the club welcomes gamers of all gaming backgrounds and experience levels to join and become a part of the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, our goal is about creating a community for gamers and fostering sportsmanship and teamwork,\u201d said Adam Moura, one of the three advisors for the Esports Club. \u201cEsports is a growing industry, and it ties in with some of the career opportunities that Kapi\u02bbolani already has. We have a game development class, which is part of the New Media Arts program, and there are things like event management in esports, which is in alignment with the Hospitality program here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All three advisors, including Jake Shimabuku and Marcie Moura, are instructors of the New Media Arts Program and have worked in collaboration with Sky Kauweloa, the director of <\/span>Esports at UH M\u0101noa<\/span><\/a>, to create the club.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also seeing an explosion of esports statewide, and it\u2019s also in the high schools as well,\u201d Marcie Moura said. \u201cSince we\u2019re a community college, we wanted to be able to bridge the high schoolers and the community around us so that they\u2019ll have a place to come to at Kapi\u2018olani. We saw a need not just from our current students but incoming students as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, the club meets weekly\u00a0<\/strong>and organizes game nights via Discord. Recently, game nights have focused on games like “Valorant” and “League of Legends,” though according to Shimabuku, students soft organize on their own for other games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe students also plan meet-ups on their own to gather on campus in the student center,\u201d Shimabuku said. \u201cI thought it was cool that they were planning to hang out and game since it adds a personable aspect to the generic understanding of esports.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Moura shared that the top three esports games include “Valorant,” “League of Legends” and “Overwatch.” For non-esports games, the more popular choices include any variation of “Pokemon” as well as “Minecraft.”<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the biggest events that the club is anticipating is the “Super Smash Bros.” tournament held at <\/span>Kawaii Kon<\/span><\/a>, Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s largest anime convention that will take place this year at the Hawai\u02bbi Convention Center from March 29-31.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cM\u0101noa was looking to put together some teams, and we think that every campus should have some representation,\u201d Adam Moura said. \u201cI think last Kawaii Kon it was a bit of a surprise because Kaua\u02bbi Community College won for ‘Smash.’ That put the community colleges more on the map, and now they\u2019re [UH System] looking to have more involvement from the community colleges overall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the moment there are three students on the Kapi\u02bbolani “Smash” team, though there are two more spaces available. Students who are interested in participating must first join the club and meet the current team. If more people are interested than the number of available spots, Marcie Moura stated that it\u2019s likely students will have to compete for a spot on the team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be the first real esports competition for Kapi\u02bbolani,\u201d Adam Moura said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of exciting because as a community college, we don\u2019t really have chances like that to play in an intramural kind of way with every campus across the system. At Kawaii Kon, it will be a cohesive venue.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The founding members of the Esports club include Kapi\u02bbolani students Eric Chituck, Akira Uyeno-Pidot, Amanda Young, and club officers Kayli Higa, Katheren Lam, Jowen Ming Hong Shu, Emily Pham, and Janae Taclas.<\/span><\/p>\n

“These students completed the RIO tasks and other paperwork, and they\u2019ve formed this sort of executive committee that\u2019s actively steering the club\u2019s direction,\u201d Adam Moura said. \u201cWe are looking at formalizing roles as we move forward to align with the club\u2019s evolution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Students in Esports Club will have the opportunity to hear from M\u0101noa’s Kauweloa on Friday, March 1 at 3 p.m. in Kopiko 202. Students who are interested in joining the club can visit the KapCC Esports Instagram (@esportskapcc) and use the link in the bio to fill out an automated form. Upon completion, students will be sent a link to join the club’s Discord server.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re into Super Smash Bros, Xbox, or PC games, the Esports Club at KCC has a place for you. (Photo by Cameron Enomoto) By Cameron Enomoto | Staff Writer The Esports Club at Kapi\u02bbolani Community College is the newest registered independent organization (RIO) on campus. Consisting of approximately 20 student members, the club welcomes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":26111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campusnews","category-clubs","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}