St Andrews College AEHSL Team

On the 28th of August 2021, St Andrews’ first Esports team, “SAC Crew '' played our last game in the AEHSL Rocket League Tournament. We made a valiant effort to win as many games as we could to climb the leaderboard but had just missed the final qualifying spot. Sadly we didn’t walk away with the main prize of a viewsonic interactive board for our school but will go down as the first St Andrew's Esports team to compete.

What was it like to compete in an esports competition?

Jayden - “Competing in this competition was very exhilarating as none of us have done anything like it. We all had experience in the game but didn’t expect the competition to be on par and slightly better. Overall this competition was a game changer for both the school and the students as a new out of school extracurricular. This also gives the students a chance to support the school using the skills they have developed. This was an interesting experience to say the least and has been the utmost fun over the last 4 weeks.”

Christopher - “The Esports competition was difficult, but still we persevered and had a blast playing as a team in AEHSL Rocket League's competition. The competition was fierce and the games were difficult, we managed to get a couple of round wins. There were a couple of hiccups when training, we were struggling to set a routine. But all together we tried to pull through and just fell short of qualifying for the second round. I encourage anyone interested in playing Rocket League Esports to join the tryouts and play for our school.”

Joshua - “The Esports tournament in my opinion was quite good but definitely difficult. We lost quite a bit but we also gave it our all which led us to a few wins and ranking above some schools. We were also shown as a team that had a lot of potential to get better. Our teamwork with one another wasn’t as good as everyone else's but we did a decent job at it and hopefully next term we will come out on top for our school.”

We would like to thank Mr Kennaugh & Mr Robson for giving us the opportunity to compete as well as Miss Mifsud for organising our registration and for supporting us every Saturday online throughout the competition. We hope to continue competing in future AEHSL competitions with hopefully more interested students entering the competition alongside us representing St Andrews College.

Written by Jayden Cassar, Christopher Simonetta & Joshua Burrows 

Year 10 Students