{"id":8781,"date":"2021-12-10T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5badbfa87a.nxcli.io\/virtual\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T19:02:01","slug":"news-from-coach-nelson-and-mnvs-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/news-from-coach-nelson-and-mnvs-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Coach Nelson and MNVS Esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><strong>Esports Middle School Team at the Playoffs!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Virtual Schools Esports has a brand new middle school team who just enjoyed their first playoff experience!\u00a0 It was a team of three playing Rocket League.<\/p>\n<p>The middle school students started in September with pre-season games, and learning to problem solve and get communications\u00a0to work with their different systems.\u00a0 After that, the team began weekly practice and matches.<\/p>\n<p>At first this team was a bit quiet and somewhat shy.\u00a0 But as the season has gone on, their team communications became much stronger leading to more success within the game.\u00a0\u00a0For a first year middle school team to get as far as they did in the season and making it all the way to the playoffs is no small\u00a0feat.\u00a0 Coach Nelson, MNVS staff and the rest of the team are very proud of how well the team performed this season, and especially how well they worked together as a group.\u00a0 For some of our students this is the first opportunity they may have had to be involved with school sports.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations team MNVS and you can look forward to hearing more exciting news about our Esports athletes in the weeks to come!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}