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THE ROAD TO PROVINCIALS: Left to right – David Wiebe, a fifth-year Avalanche volleyball player, poses with his coach Steve Kamps, while Jenna Swetlikoff, a second-year volleyballer, stands beside her coach Agata Bendkowska. The Avalanche open the season with a road trip to the coast, where they will play four games in four days against Douglas College and Capilano University.
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Local man finds success in e-sports Josh Leesman of Cranbrook is a lead commentator in the world’s most played video game
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A Cranbrook man is travelling the globe commentating the world’s most played video game, and this past weekend he held the stage before 8,000 people in person and one million people
online. Josh Leesman, 25, grew up in Cranbrook but moved to Santa Monica, California, in February to work as a game analyst for Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends. Since then, he has pro-
vided play-by-play analysis at competitive gaming tournaments – known as “esports” - in Seattle, Anaheim, San Francisco, Raleigh, Boston, Los Angeles and Poland. League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle
arena game played by 12 million people every day, with 70 million registered players from 145 countries. Each match of League of Legends features two teams of five players picking superhero-like characters with special powers called Cham-
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pions from a list of more than 100, then attempting to slaughter each other and destroy their jungle arena bases. Riot Games mostly makes money with the freeto-play game by selling virtual items and characters. Riot Games recently de-
clared League of Legends the most played game in the world by hours played per month, beating out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, World of Warcraft, and every Facebook game.
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