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Byline: Ben Nguyen Iranian students organized a global demonstration against the revolution in their home country in solidarity with 200 other universities. Following the demonstration at UTD in September, this [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The Overwatch team dominated their show matches at Comet Con with a glimpse of an esports LAN at home After months of planning, the esports team hosted [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Ten minutes down Coit Road lies some of the best coffee anywhere near UTD, Mojo's Java. Mojo's Java sits inside Cottonwood Market on Coit and Belt Line [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The VALORANT team fell last weekend on it's first LAN excursion to UT and Blinn College. The team fell in close matches, losing 4-13 in their match [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen UTD's new VALORANT team is preparing to take the fight to LAN before the start of the official season. VALORANT is a tactical team first person shooter [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Benny's Bagels is a kosher bagel shop located five to eight minutes away from campus down Frankford Road. It sits in a strip mall just before the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The Overwatch League-known as OWL-has been playing on a beta version of Overwatch 2, so players already know that the game will be quite different from Overwatch. [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Freshly baked bagels and 12 varieties of cream cheese are available just down the street at Bagel Café 21, with an excellent drink selection to complement a [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen One of the most popular shopping malls near campus for food just got a caffeinated upgrade, and it's the opening of Eiland Coffee Roaster's proper-sized coffee shop--Eiland [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen When Samuel Button walked into his discrete math course one autumn day in 2016, he was expecting a math lesson. Instead, he recalls, his instructor Timothy Farage [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Students and alumni are pushing for UTD to fire or censure Timothy Farage, a senior computer science lecturer, after he tweeted, 'Can we at least try to [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen A senior CS graduate adviser and lecturer said, 'Can we at least try to find a cure for homosexuality, especially among men?' in a tweet commenting about [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen UTD Esports added a 'VALORANT' team and a new 'academy' system for supporting more organized esports play for more students. The latest game to be added to [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Yet another northern coffee chain has transplanted itself into DFW in the last few years, but our particular local branch of Dunn Brothers Coffee arrived with some [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Students have long stopped caring about Student Government, and with the conclusion of this spring's elections, it doesn't look like student government cares about themselves either. Oh, [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Student government elections have concluded, and next term's executive officers have been decided. The Mercury sat down with cognitive science sophomore Kruthi Kanduri and public policy sophomore [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The 'Overwatch' team finished the top eight in the last Overwatch Collegiate Championship of 'Overwatch 1,' with the team facing the unique situation of trying to stay [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Not many restaurants, let alone coffee chains, claim to have a highly sociable drive through experience, but Dutch Bros Coffee provides a quick fix of energy - [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen If you had to recommend places to eat around Richardson to a friend, what would you send to them? A texted list? A spreadsheet? How about an [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Dance club Contra Corners had followed all the rules. Forms submitted on time, a vendor account set up with the university and all costs accounted for. So [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen After finishing the Swiss stage of the Overwatch Collegiate Championship 7-1, the Comets have their sights set on the last 'Overwatch' trophy there will ever be. Christopher [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Following their failure to directly qualify for league play in Collegiate Rocket League , the Comets are mounting a run through the College Carball Association Open tournaments [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Following their acquisition of Esports Stadium Arlington, OpTic Texas hosted the CDL Optic Major 1 with a sold-out arena as fans came to cheer on OpTic's home [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Across the street from a post office in Plano, there's Mudleaf Coffee, a spacious coffee shop that just might be the next place for you to get [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The University has announced plans to convert the Pub into an esports/gaming lounge, hosting an open forum to collect student feedback. The project remains in its infancy, [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Since UTD has just announced plans to convert the The Pub into a gaming lounge, I'd like to give the University a wish list for the new [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen While travelling down Route 75, you might spot a sign for Communion Coffee on Exit 24. With both good food and ample working space, the diner offers [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen A large, refillable cold brew bottle just 15 minutes away. Do I have your attention? If so, the 1418 Coffeehouse might be the next spot for you [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen After a stint being student-run following Greg Adler's departure, the UTD esports team has hired on a new head coach for the program. Drew Boehm is the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Do you remember the 'Halo' twin-stick shooter? It's ok if you don't. But for $4.99, both 'Halo: Spartan Assault' and 'Halo: Spartan Strike' are available in a [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Every time you wake up, you go through a morning- or late afternoon- routine, and for many students that includes getting a cup of tea or coffee. [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Universities across Texas responded to the omicron surge and the pandemic with varying measures. How well have they succeeded? Looking at UT, UTSA, UTA, TAMU and UNT [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The UTD Esports team has outgrown the administration's current support and needs another permanent staff member to keep the program's momentum going; otherwise, it risks losing the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen A UTD alum is changing the way that trading card game players consume their so-called 'cardboard crack' with a non-traditional LGS model and a focus on customer [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Collegiate Smash Trophy is claimed yet again Some connection issues here, some close fights there, but in the end, the UTD Smash team proves once again that [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Ruin has found us all once again. The Darkest Dungeon 2 early access release invites players into a world that has already undergone the Lovecraftian apocalypse and [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Wherever possible, recorded lectures should be made available as the latest tool that students can add to their study arsenals, not the latest excuse to miss lecture. [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Esports runs the largest tailgate at UTD Going off the front page, the team ran a massive tailgate event in the SU green, attracting at least 400 [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen The first-ever UTD Esports Tailgate was held Thursday, Oct. 21in the SU Green, bringing in over a thousand participants to the sponsored outdoor event, one of the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen With a return to in-person operations, many student organizations, gaming or otherwise, have flocked to a rarer sight in America but a staple of Korean gaming culture: [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Today on Coach Check-in, I sat down with head League of Legends coach Hemal 'Hemal' Salvi to discuss the beginning of the team's season and its future. [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Comets can return to on-campus Smash Ultimate battles against top players in the DFW area with the return of Comet Clash to the SU on Sunday evenings. [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen It's a good day to be a fan of UTD esports. The Overwatch team is putting up undefeated scorelines, the Rocket League team is off to the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen Today's Best of 5 is an Overwatch-filled edition, mixed in with the return of old friends and a preview of the biggest Collegiate LAN ever. Overwatch team [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen From college to the Overwatch League and back again, UTD's new head Overwatch coach has proven he can compete professionally while also furthering his education and the [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen In essence, video games are just moving pixels on a screen given meaning by game developers. And while SNKRX is basically just a modified Snake game, it's [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen After three years of running UTD Esports, Greg Adler will be moving on to the LCS Operations team at Riot Games. In his time on campus, Adler [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen In this week's 'Best of 5,' the GOAT of UTD Esports moves on to greener pastures, Minecraft players continue to top the Smash Ultimate scene and LANs [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen With the tentative return of in-person events, the esports scene has been eager to get back into offline tournaments and big LAN competitions. As we settle back [...]

Byline: Ben Nguyen UTD's Overwatch team just finished in the top eight of the Overwatch Collegiate Championship , going on to ride the momentum into two tournament wins. Despite having [...]