Two rival high schools successfully plan a Rocket League tournament

Rocket League is still one of the most-played online games available right now, hence its huge presence in the esports scene. While we usually expect to see these events in major venues, two high schools decided to make their own tournament and it was awesome.

As reported by Jake Lucky, an esports tournament was held between two rival high schools: Detroit Catholic Central High School and Dakota High School. The event was created by Stephen Jincaj and casted by the Ferris esports organization, both of whom did stellar jobs.

While not major esports numbers, this high school Rocket League tournament did have 1000 students watching video game cars slam a ball into a goal. Since this is a high school event, the fact that it was even able to host a game of this magnitude is impressive enough.

This just goes to show the growing popularity of esports, as high school and college level tourneys are slowly making their way to the public. Of course, there are also schools that dedicate players to getting good at esports and various organizations willing to spend money for these events. It’s clear that the scene is popular enough to not just be a niche activity anymore, not an obscure niche at the very least.

Since most esports tend to revolve around fighting games or first-person shooters, that puts Rocket League in a fairly unique place. Considering how most sports titles have yearly installments, making them impossible to update properly for esports, Rocket League can stand on its own.

It’s crazy to believe how a game that has cars playing soccer with each other has gotten this popular. This game is so popular that the publisher could afford to make it a free-to-play title, albeit, one with a ton of microtransactions. Obviously, that’s just the name of the game, but players who want to get good at Rocket League can only rely on their skills.

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Rocket League is available to download now on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC.