![]() Counter-Strike: Global Offensive club team members Aaron Cai, Cody Ye and Captain Ethan Rush play Counter-Strike at a team practice Nov. The one outlier, Hearthstone, is a holdover from when the esports program was first elevated to the varsity level, and the Northeastern Hearthstone team was winning national titles. Of the five titles that the varsity program includes, four of them - League of Legends, Overwatch, Rocket League and Valorant - are all represented in Esports Collegiate, or ESC, the conference in which Northeastern’s varsity teams compete. ![]() “The university and the athletic department have a vested interest in keeping our esport team competitive, and part of that vision for them is being part of an existing athletic conference,” Allor said. Zac Allor, coordinator of esports for Northeastern, said the university could eventually include CS:GO as one of its varsity titles, but players should not expect it to be added soon. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or CS:GO, a first-person shooter game in which two teams of five compete to defuse bombs, is currently represented as a club sports team, but not as a varsity team. Northeastern’s co-ed esports program currently includes five games as part of its varsity level and 11 games at the club level. Some of Northeastern’s varsity athletes take to the ice, others throw and catch balls, but none of them try to defuse bombs - and for now, it is going to stay that way. Want to listen to this story? Listen here for an audio report (6min 29sec) This article was written in response to the question “Will varsity esports ever include Counter-Strike? ” This article was produced as part of an initiative we’re calling Ask the News in which Northeastern University community members can submit questions to us and, if it seems like we can put together a story based on it, we look into the answers.
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