Two Canute E-sports kids got to compete in the Play-VS Unified Rocket League National Championship for the Central Region recently. We were the #1 seed heading into playoffs and remained the #1 seed for 7 weeks finishing the season 8-1 before playoffs. The 1 loss was simply a misunderstanding and we missed our match, otherwise they would have been 9-0 heading into playoffs.
Adrian Cortez is a 7th grader who is in love with Rocket League and one day wants to go to play Rocket League at the Collegiate levels. Cash Boston is a 9th grader who enjoys Rocket League and wants to continue his e-sports career.
Unified Rocket League pairs one Special Olympics Athlete with one Unified partner. Schools can have multiple Unified teams participate, we chose to try this out with just our one team.
Adrian and Cash went into playoffs winning their first two back to back matches and then on April 24th, 2025 they played for the National Championship against Triad High School out of Troy, Illinois. This game was broadcast on PlayVS's National You-Tube Channel and had 20+ people watching at all times. Everyone was rooting on both teams. At first it seemed Triad would pull away going up over Canute by 2 games. However, Cash and Adrian did not quit. They tied the match up at 2-2 out of a best of 7 games. Triad came back in the 5th game and won that making it 2-3 and then in the 6th game Cash and Adrian led by 2 for nearly 4 minutes, leaving about a minute left in the game. Triad executed a couple of plays to tie it 2-2, less than 30 seconds on the clock Triad ended up scoring making it 2-3 and Cash and Adrian hit one final shot to the goal, missing it slightly. The game ended 2-3 moving Triad to winning 4 games to Canute's 2 thus Triad won the Unified Rocket League National Championship of the Central Region while Cash and Adrian got National Runner Up.
We are also heading to Oklahoma Scholastic E-sports State Championship for Middle School on Friday, May 2nd, and 3rd where Adrian will be competing in Marvel Rivals and Halo Infinite, and then the Oklahoma Scholastic E-sports State Championship for High School on Monday, May 5th.
Our Rainbow Six Siege team comprised of Bryler Lewis, Jake Miles, Zeke Snowder, Kelsyn Steffes, and Dallas Price will be competing for the Oklahoma Scholastic Esports High School State Championship against Webbers Falls High School on May 5th, 2025 in Oklahoma City at OCCC (Oklahoma City Community College) Ryder Hoffman (7th Grader) 8-0 Regular Season and 2-0 in Playoffs will take on Choteau High Schools Reave Dawson who is also undefeated in the ultimate showdown in the game, Multiversus which will take place at OCCC on May 5th, 2025 for the Oklahoma Scholastic E-sports High School State Championship. If Ryder wins, he will automatically qualify for the E-sports Hall of Fame as the only Oklahoma Student to win a Middle School State Championship Undefeated and a High School State Championship Undefeated in the same game in back to back seasons (Fall 24 to Spring 25).
