EUGENE, Ore.  –  Bushnell Esports competed in the opening week of ECAC play, competing in NBA 2K27, Fortnite, Apex Legends and College Football.
 
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 1 (Box): Bushnell 2, Fisher College 0 (Forfeit)
Match 1 (Reineke): Bushnell 2, Mount Aloysius College 1
 
Spurs 46, Timberwolves 43
Timberwolves 55, Rockets 51
Thunder 47, Rockets 44
 
Playing in his first collegiate match, Reineke dropped the opener before taking games two and three. The freshman fell behind in the decider, trailing by 11 points to open the fourth quarter before closing the gap for his first collegiate victory.
 
Box also improved to 1-0 after an opponent no-show.
 
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).  
 
Week 1: Guerrero Escobar (20 points, 30^th)
Week 1: Petty/Parks (0 points, 32^nd)
 
A. Guerrero Escobar and Y. Guerrero Escobar had a tough opening week, playing in their first-ever collegiate competition. The duo, who are playing in the highest division, found themselves in 30^th on the leaderboard after the opening week of play.
 
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 1 (Hoerauf): Bushnell 2, US Coast Guard Academy 0 (Forfeit)
Match 1 (Monrroy): Bushnell 2, Bethany College 0 (Forfeit)
 
In a typical opening week for sport titles, the Beacons grabbed a pair of wins due to opponent no-shows.
 
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. The top-20 teams from the seven-week regular season will advance to the playoffs.

Leaderboard

Week 1: World's Edge (1-3), Storm Point (4-6)
 
Game 1: 5^th
Game 2: 19^th
Game 3: 20^th
Game 4: 9^th, 1 elim
Game 5: 20^th
Game 6: 14^th, 2 elim