This Saturday, Cal will be playing for a National Championship.
Just…not on the one you expect.
Instead of the gridiron or the hardwood, these Bears (8-2) will be traveling to Greece, to Nepal, or even London – all virtual battlegrounds on which the Tespa Collegiate Series: Overwatch Championships will be taking place, with the winning team taking home a little over $7000 in scholarship money per player.
For the uninitiated, the game itself is simple enough – six players on each team work together, and depending on the map, aim to accomplish one of three objectives; one game mode, both teams will fight for control of an area; in another, they’ll attempt to escorting a vehicle through checkpoints while the other team tries to stop them, and in the last, one team will attack an area that the other team is tasked with defending, not unlike football.