Reed Cogliano competes in two collegiate esports national championships

2018 Apr 27

A team of Rochester Institute of Technology students, including Reed Cogliano, has become one of the best collegiate Dota 2 teams in North America, making it to the finals of two national championships.

On April 15, the RIT esports team was flown out to compete in the finals for the American Video Game League's (AVGL) April Anarchy, a national collegiate esports championship hosted in Long Beach, Calif. Playing in front of an in-person and online audience, RIT was beat by a student team from University of British Columbia. For second place, the RIT team won $3,000.

On April 28, the RIT team is heading back to California to take on McMaster University in the final four of the Collegiate Star League (CSL) Grand Finals. The winner of that match will face the winner of University of California, Davis vs. Stony Brook University. The top team will win $10,000.

Dota 2 is a computer game where two teams of five players must occupy and defend their own bases on the map. Players control one of the 115 possible powerful characters, known as "heroes," who all have unique abilities and styles of play. A team wins by being the first to destroy a large structure located in the opposing team's base, called "The Ancient."

To learn more about RIT esports, go to esportsrit.com.