EUGENE, Ore. – The ECAC season continued with week five as NBA 2K27, Fortnite, College Football and Apex Legends were in action.
Cooper Reineke became the first Beacon of the season to qualify for the postseason after securing his fourth win of the season.
NBA 2K27
Charlie Box and
Cooper Reineke will play a seven-week regular season. Each match is a best-of-three format. Teams with four wins qualify for the play-ins, while teams with five or more wins automatically qualify for the playoffs.
Match 5 (Reineke): Bushnell 2, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 0 (66-33, 67-28)
Rockets 66, Celtics 33
Timberwolves 67, Wizards 28
Match 5 (Box): Marietta College 2, Bushnell 0 (71-43, 62-31)
Suns 71, Rockets 43
Thunder 62, Rockets 31
Reineke cruised to a week five victory to clinch at least a play-in tournament spot with two weeks to play in the regular season. Box dropped just his second match of the season and needs just one more victory to secure a postseason spot.
FORTNITE
Zero Build: LEADERBOARD
Builds: LEADERBOARD
Fortnite is played over a nine-week regular season with four matches every Tuesday (ZB) and Thursday (Builds) at 5:00 p.m. Each division was separated into three groups with two groups from each division playing each week, meaning teams play a total of six weeks during the regular season. Both Bushnell teams were placed in Group 1 of their corresponding competition day, meaning both duos will play in weeks 1,2,4,5,7 and 8.
Points are earned based on placement and eliminations. At the end of the regular season, the top 50 teams with the most points over the nine weeks will move to Finals.
The duos competing for the Beacons are
Audrick Guerrero Escobar/
Yannick Guerrero Escobar (Zero Build) and
Trent Parks/
Shawn Petty (Build).
The Guerrero Escobar duo tallied 102 points in week five to move into 26
th place on the leaderboard, while Parks and Petty recorded 144 points to climb into 18
th. With just two weeks to play, both teams are in a comfortable position to qualify for the Finals.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 27
Caden Hoerauf and
Mason Monrroy will play a seven-week regular season. Each match is a best-of-three format. Teams with four wins qualify for the play-ins, while teams with five or more wins automatically qualify for the playoffs.
Match 5 (Hoerauf): Glenville State University 2, Bushnell 0 (35-14, 67-20)
Georgia 35, Ole Miss 14
LSU 67, Ole Miss 20
Match 5 (Monrroy): Keiser University 2, Bushnell 0 (42-14, 27-21)
Texas 42, Oregon 14
Oregon 27, Ole Miss 21
Both Beacons fell in the week five matchups. Monrroy nearly pushed his match to a game three but was held off in the closing seconds. Hoerauf needs just one win over the next two weeks to secure a postseason spot, while Monrroy needs to win his next two games.
APEX LEGENDS
The Beacons are competing in Apex Legends for the first time in school history. Each week,
Nick McGowen,
Caleb Lemley and
Agustin Morales will play six games split across two maps from the season's rotating pool (World's Edge, Storm Point, E-District). Points are earned based on placement and eliminations. After the seven-week regular season, the top 48 teams will advance to the playoffs.
LEADERBOARD
Week 5: Storm Point (1-3), E-District (4-6)
Game 1: 11
th
Game 2: 10
th
Game 3: 14
th
Game 4: 9
th, 1 elim
Game 5: 13
th
Game 6: 6
th
The inaugural Apex team moved to 49
th on the leaderboard. The trio tallied six points in week five to put their season total at 36 points, one spot out of postseason contention with two weeks to play.