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FHS hosts first esports awards ceremony
Fairfield High School hosted the first awards ceremony Saturday of what it hopes is an annual tradition of honoring esports teams and players from across the country.
The school hosted the Walter Day National High School Esports Award Ceremony in its auditorium. It invited esports teams from across the state and even three other states: Wisconsin, Washington and Oklahoma, to receive awards honoring them as champions of various video games the teams competed in during the 2020-2021 school year.
Members of the Fairfield High School Esports Club hold the award they received at the Walter Day National High School Esports Award Ceremony Saturday night at the Fairfield High School Auditorium. Pictured are, from left, front row kneeling: Ryan Higgins, Grant Ward, Coach Tyler Weseman and Coach Michael Golden; back row: Jerry Byrum of the International Video Game Hall of Fame, Esports icon Billy Mitchell, Jacob Carlson, Mikael Anderson, Spencer Hilger, Coach John Grunwald. (Photo courtesy of Jessi Garchik)
Walter Day joined Saturday night’s awards ceremony via Zoom wearing his patented referee shirt. The ceremony was named after Day, a Fairfield resident and founder of the legendary Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa. (Photo courtesy of Jessi Garchik)
The Fairfield High School Auditorium was the site of the first-of-its-kind national esports awards ceremony Saturday, Feb. 19. The event was officially known as the Walter Day National High School Esports Award Ceremony, named after Fairfield’s own Walter Day. (Photo courtesy of Jessi Garchik)
