eSport: Super Smash Bros! 2024

Highlands Q3 eSport was a super “smash” hit this year!  7 teams with over a hundred competitors produced 7 champions who all fought for the Super Smash Championship Belt along with a $50 GameStop gift card and 250 spirit points. Everyone played their favorite characters and battled at the highest level!  The Student Council Room was lit every lunch period for an entire week with players competing hard in Super Smash Bros and showing off their skills. All participants fought as well as they could but in the end, the final day brought us the Championship Round with all 7 Team Champions!  The lights were bright, the sounds loud - man, this tournament was intense!  It all came down to a 1v1… Trey from Team Hui Lokahi versus Caleb from Team Laule’a.  7th vs. 8th Grade.  They both fought extremely hard but in the end there could only be one winner and that winner was Trey from Hui Lokahi!  Congratulations, Trey, the 2024 Super Smash School Champion!!!  Rysen Ramiro, Student Government President

Q2 eSports: Super Mario Kart

Team students will race against each other to get the fastest time possible in Mario Kart Deluxe 8 (Nintendo Switch) to become their Team's Champion. Team Champions will go head to head on Friday 12/10/21 to become the School Champion! Games will take place in the StuCo Room @ Grade Level Lunch and will be played on the Nintendo Switch.  Big shout School Q2 eSports Mario Kart Champion Ethan from Team A - Laule’a!!! He defeated the 6 other Team Champions yesterday and scored 100 sp + $50 GameStop Gift Card. Big thanks to the almost 100 participants we had this year. Get ready for Q3 eSports: Super Smash Bros. coming to you in January ‘22. Get to work this Winter Break and we’ll see who the champion will be in the new year!

Spirit Competition Kick Off 2021! Video

The Highlands Spirit Competition 21-22 kicked off with the teachers over the course of 1 week battled for the top spot on our Nintendo Switch! For the game, Mr. White chose the super fun racing game based on the Pixar movie: Cars 3! 2 teachers from each team raced the Copper Canyon Speedway track and tried their very best to get the fastest to the checkered flag! The competition was furious as the teachers tried to tap into their inner child for video game skill and strategy! Each teacher played once, and the average team time was taken to determine the winners of the games!

Ironically, Team A (Laule'a) - Cars took first place! Congrats to Mr. Esteban and Mr. Zhang for being our Teacher Champions and bringing eternal glory to your team this year!!!

 

Spirit Competition Kick Off 2021: Cars3! Video

The Highlands Spirit Competition 21-22 kicked off with the teachers over the course of 1 week battled for the top spot on our Nintendo Switch! For the game, Mr. White chose the super fun racing game based on the Pixar movie: Cars 3! 2 teachers from each team raced the Copper Canyon Speedway track and tried their very best to get the fastest to the checkered flag! The competition was furious as the teachers tried to tap into their inner child for video game skill and strategy! Each teacher played once, and the average team time was taken to determine the winners of the games! Ironically, Team A (Laule'a) - Cars took first place! Congrats to Mr. Esteban and Mr. Zhang for being our Teacher Champions and bringing eternal glory to your team this year!!!

 

Video Game Challenge 2: Mario Kart

The crowd went wild as the karts sped past the finish line! Just like the Super Smash Bros. Tournament in the first quarter, the air was electric in the Student Council Room during Lunch as everyone was cheering for their friends or their team members!!! This is what it was like at our Video Game Challenge 2: Mario Kart.... From March 4 - 20,  16 Mario Kart contestants from each team raced competitively in the Quarterfinals and Final Round in order to make it to the Championship Round to become their Team Mario Kart Champion!  All 7 Team Mario Kart Champions met on the final day for one epic racing tournament for the ages!  In the end, it was Evan from Team Hui Mana’o who came away victorious as the School Mario Kart Champion for 2020!  Congrats to Evan and the Teacher Mario Kart Champion, Ms. Moore from Team Hui Ha’aheo!!!  Ryder & Justin, StuCo Historians

Super Smash Bros Nintendo Switch Tournament 2019

A..  B.. A..  B.. LEFT RIGHT  UP DOWN START. The 1st ever Highlands Intermediate video game tournament was amazing. Students who prefer video games over sports had a time to shine in this new concept that allows student to actually play video games in school. Just like our quarterly intramurals, representatives from all teams battled it out in a game of Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo Switch. The crowd that showed up was HUGE and the Student Council room was packed with people who wanted to watch some video games during their lunch break. Everyday, 8 participants from each team would play in a bracket to determine the champion for that team. In the end when all 7 champions were decided, and while all players who participated showed excellency at the game, the Super Smash Bros School Champion was Adrian from Hui Mana’o with an astounding win over all the other champions. That’s not all, however, as our teachers were joined in on the fun. Believe it or not, teachers actually play video games too! We had an amazing victory from our HIS Band Director, Mr. Lim,  who showed excellent prowess at the game. As our final days of the tournament began it was clear to see how amazing an experience not only the players had but the spectators as well! We set the groundwork for future video game events in schools. For now, we hope to run a video game tournament every quarter to get the same excitement from 8th graders and new 7th graders and maybe even inspire tournaments like this for other schools. Video games are an area that is growing especially in the younger generation. They have fun playing, so why not incorporate them into student activities and give them a rather new outlet for having fun in school?!? In closing, we'd like to thank our sponsor Mobile Gamer Guys for providing guidance and support in our first ever Super Smash Tournament! Chase, 8th Grade President