{"id":223326,"date":"2026-06-19T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:09:08","slug":"12-central-pennsylvania-youth-esports-athletes-to-compete-in-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223326\/","title":{"rendered":"12 central Pennsylvania youth esports athletes to compete in national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Twelve central Pennsylvania students will compete in this month&#8217;s Esports Series Championship Nationals at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. <\/p>\n<p>The students qualified through league play and will compete against top esports team from around the country. The following students will compete in &#8220;Fortnite&#8221; and &#8220;Apex Legends,&#8221; respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Roland BenionJack ButlerShawn CookJordan FloresEthan HernandezCollin LehmanBrady MaceAlex MarkanWill MarkanBo RitterEli SchwalmLachlan Shamenek<\/p>\n<p>The players are from Camp Hill, Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Lancaster, Chambersburg and surrounding areas. They will represent <a href=\"https:\/\/valhallan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valhallan Esports<\/a>, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>They will compete from June 25-28. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a dozen of our local players qualify for the Esports Series Championship in Orlando is an incredible accomplishment because this is the biggest and most challenging stage in youth esports,&#8221; Andrew Aultman, owner and chief operating officer of Valhallan Esports Training, said in the release. &#8220;They have earned the opportunity to represent our region on a national stage against some of the country&#8217;s best youth esports teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Twelve central Pennsylvania students will compete in this month&#8217;s Esports Series Championship Nationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-223326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}