E-Sports, or Electronic Sports, is essentially competitive video gaming. The popularity of Esports has grown rapidly in recent years to the point where the United States has begun issuing P1 sporting visas to foreign players. This new craze has reached McClatchy in the form of its new E-Sports club, founded by CKM student Arthur Dollesin (‘17), who made it to the playoffs of the HSL, the national High School League of Legends tournament, last year with his team. League of Legends is one of the many online competitive games recognized and played competitively by E-Sports organizations and teams, along with other real-time strategy games such as StarCraft II and HearthStone.
The club was started to better organize the weak and non-central E-Sports community at McClatchy. Dollesin blamed the disorganized community for the team barely not qualifying to play in the top 16 HSL playoffs. They did not qualify because another team, due to a last minute forfeit win, had one more win than the McClatchy team. When asked what the future holds for the club, Arthur said that he wants to bring his sport up to the level of other school teams, such as basketball and baseball and compete in tournaments with other SCUSD teams with E-sports teams, such as JFK, Franklin, and Sac High. The E-Sports club meets every Thursday in D-10.