05-06-2025
ARC E-Sports team national runner-up, taking home $3,000 in scholarship money
AUGUSTA, GA (WJBF)- One sport growing in popularity is E-sports. The Academy of Richmond County Musketeers are taking it to another level, competing in the national PlayVS cup championship against the Science Academy of South Texas.
The team called musketeer strike finished runner ups in the cup title. However, they still got 3,000 dollars' worth of scholarship money, and both schools also received a trophy.
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The eastern regional champions for Street Fighter 6 had a season to remember. Earlier this school year, the Musketeer Fleet Rocket League team won Richmond county's first ever GHSAA 3A state championship.
Team captain Caleb Walls will take what he learned this year and apply it for next season.
'We had to learn for a little while, since we weren't really into this at first, but it just slowly grew on us, especially me I started taking this a lot more seriously. We were bummed out about the loss, but we're still going to try this out next year,' Walls said.
'It was really nerve-wracking at first, because I was just wondering if we were going to lose or not, or how far we're going to make it? But in the end, it was just a fun experience, and we all learned something new from it, and we had fun so that's all that matters.'
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