Midwest Campus Clash preview: ‘We’re gonna sit down and be nerds, and it’s gonna be fantastic’
BRANSON MO NEWS: It might be vicariously through a DC Comics-based fighting video game, but Columbia College president Scott Dalrymple and Columbia Public Schools superintendent Peter Stiepleman will be waling on each other for a $1,000 donation to their respective institution.
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The epic clash between two of Columbia’s most important education representatives is set for 4 p.m. Saturday in Columbia College’s Southwell Complex as an exhibition during the Midwest Campus Clash — a seven-team “League of Legends” competition between Columbia College, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Maryville University, Robert Morris University and Miami University (Ohio) with a first-place prize of $15,000. Students from Hickman and Battle will also face off against students from Rock Bridge and Jefferson City in a “League of Legends” exhibition match at 3 p.m.
Stiepleman, who said this weekend’s wager was too fun of an opportunity to refuse, raved about the positive relationship between the district and Columbia College and the far-reaching opportunities of the Midwest Campus Clash.“It’s about inclusivity,” the superintendent said. “You wanna find every opportunity for kids to belong; it’s that belonging that produces community, which leads to what we’re trying to produce in kids — empathy and compassion. Those lead to good decisions for the future, professionally and socially.”Despite the stigmas that eSports still faces, Joshua Cobb, a competitor on Missouri’s “League of Legends” team, said it leads to the same positive by-products you’d find on fields and courts throughout the country: teamwork, communication and relationship building.“You can’t see each other. You get people from all walks of life; skill is the only thing that we see,” Cobb said. “Entitlement doesn’t work in eSports. You can make close bonds with all five members of the team.”Competitive gaming has also become much more than just …
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