Referring to itself as El Paso’s flagship Esports team, the El Paso HoneyBadgers organization was just beginning to build its membership when the coronavirus pandemic forced the group of gamers to shift to meeting online only.
“The social aspect of the HoneyBadgers is kind of harder for us. We, our teams love to practice and they love to be around each other,” said team president Caroline Salas.
The El Paso HoneyBadgers is an electronic sports team based at the GAIA Makerspace at UTEP that sometimes competes through playing multiplayer video games against other teams in competitive matches. It is also an organization where people can come together and bond over their shared love of games.
Salas said the HoneyBadgers became an official student organization at the University of Texas at El Paso in February 2019. They have since expanded beyond being an exclusive UTEP student…
