8 THE VOICE, THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 2016 EDITOR JENNA TYTGAT SS poris . apa pea val | ee | | | ‘4 * :. ‘s : * ‘ h 5 + A BALA YOGESH photo The women’s soccer team played a tough game against the Capilano Blues, and ultimately lost the bronze in a penalty shootout. Falcons miss out on bronze Langara women’s soccer team falls to Capilano in PacWest final 66 We’re not worried for next year RYAN BIRT LANGARA WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH By BALA YOGESH Ihe Langara Falcons lost the bronze medal to the Capilano Blues in the women’s PacWest Provincial Soccer Championship by a score of 2-1 on Saturday afternoon. The outcome of the match was de- cided by penalty kicks as the Falcons, who were trailing the Blues after the first half, evened the game in the 60th minute when Giulia Repole scored the equalizing goal. The Falcons entered the match against the Blues after a tough loss to the VIU Mariners on Friday. Mariners’ Rachel Jones scored a goal in the final minutes of that match to lift her team to a 2-1 victory. Ryan Birt, the head coach of the Fal- cons, said the bronze medal game was tough to play because of the previous day’s loss. “It’s a big emotional let-down. You know the fact; ’'m totally convinced that we outplayed VIU in that game. The goal that they scored to win the game is a very controversial goal.” Birt said their goalkeeper had the ball, and a VIU player “smashed into her,” interfering with her ability to de- fend the net. Then VIU scored. “We'd been dominant in the game up to that point, and I thought we were the better team on that day,” he said. Falcon player Anastazia Ziros said her team hoped for more in their final Pac West game. “T think we were expecting more of a win,” Ziros said. Until the championships, Birt said the Falcons had a good season. “The top four teams that made the provincials are all quite equally matched,” he said. “I think the girls did very well. “We’re not worried for next year,” he said. “These guys will need a bit of downtime. “You got to have some time away and let things sink in.” Team acclimatization tricky business =, a 10 '@) ROG E “ RE I pty ei CHERYL WHITING photo Vancouver Canucks fans go to watch their team play on Oct. 29 against the Washington Capitals. Moving to a new city or country leads to difficult decisions about team loyalties for newcomers By CHERYL WHITING hen people move to a new city, Wi: may adopt the city’s sports teams as their own, which can help them connect socially, but can also complicate things when interests or team loyalties lie elsewhere. John Russell teaches sports philoso- phy at Langara College and has pub- lished a paper challenging the notion of loyalty to sports teams. “Our allegiances to sports team are accidents of geography, usually. What these teams provide is an opportunity to participate in a narrative of a com- munity and in the narrative of a team that’s a big part of that community,” he said. Russell said it can be difficult for people coming to a new place to accli- matize to a new sports team, especially if they are loyal to another team. Lydia Dani moved from Alberta a few months ago to study at Langara. She is an Edmonton Oilers fan, and said she does not see that changing quickly. “Tm still attached to [the Oilers],” she said. “If I went to a game of the Ca- nucks and the Oilers here, I would be rooting for Edmonton.” Karan Gosal is an international stu- dent from India. He knows little about hockey, but would like to attend a Canucks game. “[My friends and I] are new to Cana- da. We don’t know about the games over here. We have been here for eight months,” Gosal said. “[m planning on watching an ice hockey game. “My friend [saw one]. I also want to go, I find ice hockey very interesting.” Russell said that he feels that sports can encourage community, but being too loyal to a team can cause problems. “These allegiances are not benign,” he said. “There are sometimes riots. The partisanship contributes to tribal- ism, [and] that is a mixed bag morally. It does encourage community, but com- munity can be oppressive,” Russell said. ESports encourage comaraderie League of Legends world championship viewing party draws crowd from all across Lower Mainland By MICHELE PAULSE ment rang out at a viewing party in a Richmond badminton hall, as video game fans watched two teams compete in the League of Legends world championships in Los Angeles, on Saturday. Clubs from Langara College, UBC, SFU, BCIT and Douglas College co- hosted the party so that their commu- nities could watch teams SK Telecom and Samsung Galaxy in the final round of the championships together. “A lot of people can’t go to the actual event,” said Mathew Nguyen, a Langa- ra eSports execu- tive. “We wanted to experience the en- vironment of the actual event where there’s hun- dreds of people, thousands of peo- ple, all screaming [and] cheering for He: of support and disappoint- a ‘iil KUBLAI BARLAS their teams. We League of Leg- wanted to recre- ends coach ate that,” he said. The UBC eS- r4 4 ports Association held viewing par- 3 ties in past years, Ht s] a but this year invit- way to ed other post-sec- brin g the ondary to orga- . nize the event, COMMUNI- attended by ap- proximately 250 ty tog ether fans. instead “The viewing ; party itself is im- of having portant on its own people sit because it’s the gt home world finals; the most important match of the largest game in the entire world. League of Legends is the most played and possibly most viewed game in the world,” said Victor Ho, UBC eS- ports president. Kublai Barlas, a League of Legends coach, was at the event on Saturday and thinks that viewing parties offer a good social opportunity. “TIt’s] a way to bring the community together instead of having people sit at home,” Barlas said. “They can meet some pro who are around to come to the events and they can hang out with like minded people,” he said. There were more men than women there, but that didn’t stop Linh Dinh from cheering until she was hoarse. “We're screaming whenever our team scores, and that makes me feel like I’m linking to people. I also see other girls. It’s not just me as a girl gamer,” Dinh said. Fans waved glow sticks as they cheered on their teams and broke for snacks during intermission, min- gling and talking amongst each other. SK Telecom won 3-2. & Falcons’ Tally WOMEN'S SOCCER MEN'S SOCCER W-D-L W-D-L 6-2-6 1-2-9 Ranked: 04 Ranked: 05 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NEXT GAME Nov. 5, 7 p.m. at CBC MEN'S BASKETBALL NEXT GAME Nov. 7,5 p.m. at CBC