2 Students From Barnegat Win Esports Championship

GALLOWAY, N.J. — Two students from Barnegat helped lead Stockton to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Fortnite Championship. Damian Majewski and Parker Teliszewski, of Barnegat, were part of a three-person team with Austin Van Zant that took the title last weekend in Albany.

Majewski was also named a season MVP for Fortnite, an online multiplayer video game. Stockton teams also placed second in tournaments for League of Legends and made the quarterfinals in Overwatch.

This is Stockton's first semester competing in esports, so their success left some folks surprised at the tournament.

“I really felt they were going to be incredible. The commentators really didn’t know what we could do,” said coach and program manager Demetrios Roubos. “That started to change as we gained momentum, but right up to the end they thought we were at a disadvantage. But we came in and cleaned house.”

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