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Asbury Park High School Presents: First Season of Esports

Throughout the school year of 2024-2025, Dr. Medina made sure that this dream of having Esports was possible.
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Garden State Esports President Chris Aviles and Vice President Regina Schaffer teamed up with principal, Dr. Medina, to bring the excitement of Esports to the students of Asbury Park High School.

First Season of Esports at Asbury Park High School

Throughout the school year of 2024-2025, Dr. Medina made sure that this dream of having Esports was possible. Medina worked around the clock to have the game room established in the new improved media center. From there, Dr. Medina, Chris Aviles, and Regina Schaffer got the students enlisted to be part of this program. Now in the school year of 2025-2026, APHS students competed with other schools in gaming competition.

The Focus Games of the Season

Students competed in Marvel Rivals and Rocket League. Marvel Rivals was a six on six game in which teams could select their favorite comic book characters which were then put into combat situations. Each team had to take out the other by defeating them in hand to hand combat or by winning the mission.
The game of Rocket League allowed students to pick a rocket powered car in a world in which they would use physics to score a goal with a soccer ball.

Education Value

Esports was not just about playing games but also it dealt with critical thinking, writing, and teamwork.
Critical thinking came to play when the students had to strategize in two of their competitive games, Marval Rivals and Rocket League. Each game that was played, students had to revise and update their strategies in order to remain competitive. This required in-depth thinking to create new techniques and determination in order to counter their opponent’s aggressive play. Because of the way students need to think during competition, writing becomes a very big necessity.
For instance, students log all their strategies to see which would work or not. In addition, the writing piece also allowed students to incorporate history with their battle strategies. For example, students used Hannibal’s tactic of entrapment. They circled his opponents, on the Romans from The Battle of Cannae in the game of Marvel Rivals. Asbury Park High School Blue Bishops encircled their opponents to gain a victory.

Phalanx formation

Another history tactic that was used by Asbury Park High School Blue Bishops was Phalanx formation, a square battlefront formation, which was used by the Spartans against the Persians at The Battle of Thermopylae, Alexander the Great and his army, and the Macedonian Phalanx on the Romans at the Battle of Pydna. This formation was used in an unusual way in Rocket League when the Asbury Park Blue Bishops formed this square formation with their opponents and rode their cars together to confuse them while trying to score.

Success of the Season and Garden State Esports Championship

For a first season, Asbury Park High School Blue Bishops did not miss any gaming competition. They went on to witness gaming competition at Georgian Court University, Lakewood New Jersey. This event was on November 22, 2025.  The experience of being there was a great one.
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