UAAP Esports kicks off

MANILA, Philippines — Rivals Ateneo and La Salle split the first two titles in the NBA 2K24 and Valorant events of the inaugural Esports tournaments to kick off the 87th UAAP Season yesterday at the Arete Ateneo in Katipunan.

Ateneo’s Paolo Medina bested La Salle’s Kegan Yap in the best-of-three finals, 2-1, marked by a 74-63 win, for the NBA title while La Salle took revenge in Valorant by wiping out Santo Tomas.

Medina, a former student-manager of the Blue Eagles basketball team, used the Oklahoma City Thunder squad against Yap’s Los Angeles Lakers.