By Quinn Kropschot
Staff Writer
The Mira Costa Comedy Sportz team attended the annual Gamecon conference along with various Southern California Comedy Sportz teams on Oct. 6 to learn new improvisational games and skills at San Marino High School.
Gamecon is an annual convention where various local Comedy Sportz teams get together to meet, share ideas and learn new skills for their Comedy Sportz teams.
“Gamecon showed me how Comedy Sportz gatherings work,” new team member sophomore Elizabeth Hartman said.
All Costa Comedy Sportz team members were required to attend Gamecon. The teams split up into groups ranging from beginning to advanced experience levels. From there, the groups went into different rooms around the school and were taught new improv techniques and games.
“It is tough to improvise with strangers at first,” team member junior Gabby Wolf said. “But once I got more comfortable I was able to learn a lot.”
From the 70 people that auditioned for Costa Comedy Sportz this year, 16 new members were added to the team.
“The Comedy Sportz team this year seems to have a great grasp on improv, and I am sure that captains Molly [Curtis] and Buster [Baer] will teach them new skills,” Comedy Sportz advisor Carol Mathews said. “I am really excited to see how they improve throughout the year.”
Comedy Sportz has had eight practices so far this year to prepare for Gamecon and its upcoming matches.
“There’s a great kind of energy about this team,” Curtis said. “Everybody is really enthusiastic and committed to the group. That’s pretty much all I could ask for in a team.”
The team’s first match is planned for November. Their opponent is not yet known.
“We continue to get better each week,” Wolf said. “I’m looking forward to this year’s season.”
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