PBC Esports Championships Begin this Friday in Aiken

AUGUSTA, GA — The Peach Belt Convention 2023 spring Esports Championships will start this Friday, March 24, in Aiken, S.C., introduced by Studio Architects. The convention can be holding its League of Legends and Overwatch Championships on the Etherredge Middle on the campus of the College of South Carolina Aiken. League of Legends will occupy the primary theater of the middle whereas Overwatch can be simply subsequent door within the O’Connell Theater.

Tickets are $10 per day and may be bought right here.

All contests can be streamed stay with League of Legends on the PBC’s foremost Twitch channel right here and the Overwatch competitors on PBC2 right here.

Competitors begins at 12 midday on Friday with the primary of 4 League of Legends quarterfinals. Florida Southern School enters because the #1 seed following an ideal 7-0 regular-season. The College of North Georgia is second and Kennesaw State the third seed. The PBC will welcome two new applications to the in-person occasion because the College of West Georgia and Florida State College Panama Metropolis make their championship debut.

The Overwatch event begins at 1pm with the primary of 4 quarterfinal matches. Defending PBC Champions Converse returns to defend their title after going 8-0 within the common season. Kennesaw State is the second seed. Host USC Aiken is the seventh seed and can play at 3:00 pm on Friday.

Saturday will function two semifinal matches for each titles, adopted by the Champions Division finals. For the primary time, the PBC hosted higher and decrease tier regular-season competitions in each titles with a Champions Division operating concurrently with the upper-tier, or Masters Division. The Champions Division finals can be held at 3:00 pm on Saturday after the primary two rounds had been accomplished on-line final weekend. In League of Legends, Alma School out of Michigan will tackle Florida Southern for the Champions Division title whereas in Overwatch Georgia School & State College will meet Kennesaw State.

These can be adopted by the Masters Division championship matches. The winner of the PBC League of Legends event will obtain the convention’s automated bid to the School League of Legends championship hosted by writer Riot Video games. The PBC Overwatch Champion will obtain a bid to the 2023 Commissioner’s Esports School Cup in Arlington, Texas.

The Peach Belt was the primary NCAA convention in any division to start an Esports Championship and held its first stay occasion in 2018. This would be the convention’s sixth stay Esports championship occasion.