December 2021 Newsletter
Contents
A Word from the League
State Championship Wrap Up
Winter Series Information
New Game!
Spring Season Information
MNVL Merch Available
MNVL Youtube Video of the Month
A Word from the League
Hey all,
Just a quick word of thanks from us to all of you for an amazing season. Fall went more smoothly than any in the past, and we are excited to see the incredible growth of Minnesota esports from season to season. This is all testament to the work our teachers, coaches, and players are doing. So thank you for making the fall season particularly great.
In this newsletter you will find the recap of the State Tournament, the announcement of our Winter Series, a new game approaches, and some preliminary information on Spring season.
Finally, this season we saw the launch of our esports merch initiative. With this, any school that is part of our league can get a completely free online merch store for their school's esports program. These stores will sell clothing customized to each esports program, and 15% of sales will return to the school for fundraising! The reason we worked on this initiative was because there were many requests from coaches for more fundraising opportunities, and many requests from players to get jerseys. We are happy to be able to give schools the tools that can help solve both of these challenges at no cost to the program.
These are not the only issues coaches have expressed to us, and we are actively working on developing several other initiatives to address the challenges they are facing. We hope to announce at least one of these before the start of spring season.
Looking forward to growing this with you all,
Minnesota Varsity League
State Championship Recap
From Thursday, Dec 2nd to Sunday, Dec 5th MNVL held its State Championship tournaments. These online tournaments were broadcasted on MNVL channels, and the games Rocket League and Call of Duty were broadcasted on the channels of our professional team sponsors Torrent and MN Rokkr. Over the weekend thousands of people tuned in to watch the best players in Minnesota duke it out in our six titles.
The tournaments were packed with excitement from start to finish. Anyone in chat at the time will know just how intense they were!
Results and brackets are posted below, and you can recap all the action on the MNVL YouTube, where all the vods from the weekend were saved. Congrats to all of our competitors. Your medals and trophies are on the way!
Super Smash Bros
1st: South MPLS: Phantom
2nd: Blaine HS: DM
3rd: Cedar Mountain HS: Echo
Valorant
1st: Apple Valley HS
2nd: St Louis Park HS
3rd: Minnetonka HS
Chess
1st: St John's Prep: Peter
2nd: Orono HS: Donda
3rd: St John's Prep: Matthew
Rocket League
1st: Rogers HS
2nd: Spring Lake Park HS
3rd: Burnsville HS
Minecraft
1st: South MPLS
2nd: St Louis Park HS
3rd: Academy for Science and Agriculture
Call of Duty
1st: Inver Grove (MEC)
2nd: Burnsville HS
3rd: Orono HS
MNVL Winter Series
This winter MNVL is hosting four invitational tournaments and seven open tournaments. These will occur weekly from January 14th through February 19th. The final tournament will be a Border Battle, where the best teams in Minnesota will face off against the best in Wisconsin in three titles!
Open Tournaments:
MNVL will host tournaments on Thursday and Friday night each week from Jan 20-Feb 11. All tournaments will be streamed on twitch.tv/mnvl. Registration link found in the button below.
Cost: $15 all tournament pass
Time: All tournaments start at 4:30 pm
Prizes: Although this series is mostly for fun, each tournament will award one of Wisdom Gaming Group's gaming chairs for each winner!
You must be able to pick up the chair from our MOA location (we cannot ship these)
If you cannot pick it up, you will receive a $50 Steam gift card as a replacement.
Dates:
Jan 20-21: Rocket League 1v1 (2 day)
Jan 27: Valorant Deathmatch
Jan 28: Call of Duty: Vanguard Free for All
Feb 3: Halo Infinite Free for All Slayer
Feb 4: Halo Infinite 4v4 Slayer
Feb 10: Minecraft Bedwars FFA (1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1)
Feb 11: Super Smash Brothers 2v2
Invitationals:
Time: All tournaments start at 4:30 pm
Cost: Free
Jan 14-15: League of Legends Invitational
Email Jakeu@wisdom.gg if you have a team that would like to join
Border Battle Qualifiers:
Feb 15: Overwatch
Open to all school teams
Email Jakeu@wisdom.gg if you have a team that would like to join
Feb 16: Rocket League
Top teams from fall invited
Feb 17: Super Smash Brothers
Top players from fall invited
Feb 19th:
Border Battle: Top teams from Wisconsin and Minnesota compete in Overwatch, SSBU, and Rocket League. Participants invited based on qualifier tournaments.
New Game for Spring
Halo Infinite
We will be adding 4v4 competitive Halo Infinite to the official roster of MNVL games for Spring!
This free-to-play game with cross-platform functionality is already making waves at the professional level. We are excited for the return of a classic!
Spring Season 2022 Information
Important Dates:
Feb 1st: Spring registrations open
March 1: Spring registrations close
March 7-19: Two week pre-season
March 21: Spring Season Starts!
MNVL Merch is available now!
MNVL Youtube
View our new YouTube channel where we will highlight our players in weekly content!