The best recent events and tournaments at Localhost

Nerd Street’s owned and operated gaming venues, known as Localhosts, are not only places where you can stop by to play your favorite games on high-quality gaming PCs and consoles. Localhosts also are the site of LAN tournaments, gaming community gatherings, private events, youth camps, brand activations and more. Every month, we’ll be spotlighting some of the best events that have happened at Localhost in Philadelphia, Rowan and Denver. Here’s a look back at some of the fun things that happened at Localhost over the past month.

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Collegiate tournaments at Localhost

Nerd Street’s new collegiate esports tournament series kicked off last month in Philly and Denver. In Philly, the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Series (MACS) featured competitions in VALORANT and Overwatch 2. Ten teams from eight schools turned out for Overwatch, while 12 teams from nine schools showed up for VALORANT. The George Mason University Patriots took home first place in VALORANT, while the Arcadia University Knights came out on top in the Overwatch bracket.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Series (RMCS) featured a VALORANT tournament in Denver with five teams from three schools coming to Localhost to play on LAN. The University of Colorado took home the crown after a nail-biting three-map finals victory over the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs.

In Glassboro, New Jersey, Rowan University esports held a 3v3 Overwatch LAN that included 10 teams competing at Localhost. It was a busy month for Rowan esports as the university’s own esports teams traveled to Philly to compete in both the MACS Overwatch and VALORANT tournaments too.

Halloween bash

There was a Halloween party at Localhost Rowan to cap off October. The highlight of the night was a costume contest. The winner was somebody dressed as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings who won a gaming chair. The costume contest was not the only way to win a prize that night. There was also a raffle in which attendees won things like headsets, keyboards, gift cards, a PC case and a Localhost swag bag. Attendees raced for extra raffle tickets in the spookiest Mario Kart maps like Twisted Mansion, Dry Dunes, and Bowser’s Castle.

Go For Broke

In mid-October, the FGC Monthly Go For Broke returned to Localhost Philly featuring brackets in Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Strive and UNI 2. In addition to the fighting game brackets, this edition of Go For Broke included a Mario Kart tournament known as Broad Street Blur and for the first time ever a Mario Party tournament known as Broad Street Bash. Players from both Drexel and Kutztown Universities competed in these events with KU students finishing in the top three for both Mario Kart and Mario Party!

Friday Night Rivals

A new weekly tournament series kicked off in Denver last month. Every Friday at Localhost will feature a Rivals of Aether 2 tournament known as Friday Night Rivals. The weekly Friday Rivals tournament is meant to provide a welcoming environment for anyone just dipping their toe into Rivals 2 or for old players returning to the Aether. It will be streamed and casted each week.

Quick hits

Last month, Localhost Philly hosted the beta launch and community showcase for Theorycraft Studios’ Supervive! Supervive is a new MOBA Battle Royale and hero shooter hybrid, slated to launch later this month. Players in attendance got the chance to hang with developers and community managers, receive early access to the beta test flight and acquire some extra in-game goodies alongside the beta's Twitch drops campaign.

Localhost Denver had a couple of events for the new game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO. No Pardons, a third-party tournament organizer, set up an event for the launch of the game on Oct. 11, while another group came to Localhost a couple days later for a Sparking ZERO event that included a live DJ!

Localhost also had a presence at LANFest Colorado last month to run a Smash tournament to support LANFest’s mission to bring healthy gaming communities to everyone.

At Rowan, the weekly Smash Ultimate meetup Smash The Glass had a strong month of attendance with more than a dozen attendees every week. Limit Break, Rowan’s weekly FGC meetup, also saw strong attendance numbers last month with participants coming out to play Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8 and Guilty Gear Strive.

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