Comedy Sportz hosts first match of the year

GAME PARTICIPANTS: Comedy Sportz players participating in “Expert Challenge”, a game where players pretend they are experts on a subject and the other team has to find flaws in what the other team is saying. The blue team chose this game and emerged victorious, which helped put them in the lead. Photo by Charolette Levy/La Vista

Charolette Levy

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In the Small Theater on Oct. 7 at 7 p.m., Mira Costa’s Comedy Sportz blue team won a close game.

Comedy Sportz managers, seniors Matalee Brown and Ben Orroth, opened the event alongside Ms. Hutchinson with a moment of silence for Zack Estrin, Comedy Sportz player Chloe Estrin’s father, who recently passed. Red team players Ariel Dupin, Jaxon Stroyke, Ben Orroth, Abby Brown, and Jackson Yollin competed against blue team’s Teddy Glozman, Devan Malik, Matalee Brown, Siena Frederick, Chris Halkias, as well as Lia DeFonce-Martini, who played for both teams.

“We wanted to show our support to the Estrin family and honor the memory of Zach Estrin,” said Brown. “We thought it was important to share that someone so outstanding had passed and let [the family] know we stand with them in these dark moments.”

Red team was successful in the first half of the match with a 1 point lead. Red team was led by senior Ariel Dupin and blue team by senior Teddy Glozman. In the end, the blue team won with a final score of 42-41 in the closing game of “Object Freeze”, a competition where the audience provides props, which the players then use for improvising.

“My favorite part of the Comedy Sportz match was playing the game Garth,” Glozman said. “The best part about this game is that you can say something that makes no sense, but it could still be hilarious if you have confidence in what you are saying. And to be honest, my favorite thing in improv is getting laughs out of a joke that makes no sense at all.”