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Harrisburg University wins esports national championship
Harrisburg has the top collegiate Overwatch team in the country.
Harrisburg University’s Overwatch team won the national championship on Sunday at the first-ever ESPN Collegiate Esports Championships in Texas, defeating the University of Utah in the finals. Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer video game.
Hundreds of schools from across North America competed in qualifying events hosted by Tespa and Collegiate StarLeague to secure spots in the collegiate championship. Five gaming titles were on the line at the championships.
Harrisburg University, whose team is known as the Storm, was one of eight teams in the Overwatch event. Harrisburg University was the only school from Pennsylvania.
The national championship win closed out the Storm’s inaugural season in which the Overwatch team went 33-0. Harrisburg University also has esports teams that compete in League of Legends, a multiplayer battle-arena video game, and Hearthstone, a video game involving collectible digital cards.
