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Genshin Impact: Should You Play?

By Quinn Nordick

Genshin Impact is a free, anime styled, RPG game with a ton of amazing gameplay and fun characters. At the beginning there are two travelers, a brother and a sister, that get separated by this unknown god. As the player, you get to choose who you want to play as, the sister, or the brother. Then you get to name whatever one you choose.

After you name them, you wake up on a beach in a world called “Teyvat” and end up finding your little travel companion named “Paimon”. She’s sweet, kind, and might talk a little too much, but she’s your only friend in this world right now.

The game then teaches you the basic controls such as how to attack, run, climb, and use your elemental abilities. Which you get from touching a statue of the seven. Where you find out that you can control the elements without something called a vision. A vision is a jeweled amulet gifted by the gods to citizens with strong ambitions.

Visions give the user the abilities to use one of the seven elements. Cyro, pyro, hydro, electro, dendro, anemo, and geo. Also known as ice, fire, water, electricity, plants, and rock.

After the tutorial, you start the long story quests that you follow in your journey across the world of teyvat. You will meet many people along the way. Some foes, some friends, and many battles.

As you travel across nations you find yourself in many interesting predicaments such as being in trouble with the law enforcers or even the nations archon, also known as the nation’s god.

There are many nations, 7 are ruled by archons. only one nation so far has a god that is not a part of the 7. This nation is known as Nod-Krai. This nation is different from the others, unlike other nations this one worships the goddess of the moon, as their god is not an archon due to the moon not being a natural element like the other gods, and she also does not wish to assert control over her nation.

Every other nation has a god that controls one of the 7 elements, and each represent an ideal. These gods are known as Barbatos, The god of anemo. Rex Lapis, the god of geo, Beelzebul/Baal, the god of electro, Buer, the god of dendro, Focalors, the god of hydro, Haborym, the god of pyro, and Tsaritsa, the god of cryo.

These seven are known as the primary gods that rule each nation. Every nation you visit uncovers more of this worlds story, and more clues to where your sibling may be. But you also soon find out that this world is not as innocent and colorful as it seems, will you uncover the secrets that lie beyond the false sky?

MUSTANG POST: 2025 MAY ISSUE RELEASED!

As this is my last issue with The Mustang Post I feel as though I need to spend this letter reflecting on my time here. For almost a quarter of my life I have been writing for The Mustang Post, during that time I wrote 17 articles, published 15 eMagazines, and recorded two podcasts. Among everything I have published, one piece stands out as my favorite, Cooking Up Contention.

Cooking Up Contention was made by Roland, Chad, and me during the 23-24 school year. It was born out of our teachers’ annoyance with our petty squabbles, with him eventually telling us to “just record yourselves arguing.” Which is what we did. The three of us turned our dumb talks into a script, and we loved it because it was an expansion of something we had fun doing.

Ultimately, that podcast sums up why I enjoyed my time here so much, Mr. Lang, our teacher, made an environment where anything you love can be written about.

You can read the last issue of this school year here!


Thank you for reading and goodbye,
From Logan Jacobs

MUSTANG POST: 2025 MARCH ISSUE RELEASED!

Hello again!
The Mustang Post has returned with another issue, while not as packed or as thematic as our last issue it surely will still provide quality articles for you to enjoy!

One of those quality articles is another valorant article, it’s similar to an older article I produced after the LOCK//IN event in 2023 but focuses more on story telling as compared to presenting facts.

I don’t have any major announcements for the Post in this letter so I’d like to end this letter by thanking you for reading!

You can read the newest release of the Mustang Post here!

Thank you for reading and best wishes,
From Logan Jacobs and the entire Editor Team

MUSTANG POST: 2025 VALENTINES DAY ISSUE RELEASED!

Happy Valentines Day!

For the first time ever the Post is doing a themed holiday issue! In the past we’ve dabbled in seasonal themed articles but never to this degree! Expect a full bouquets worth of Valentines day articles.

Alongside that you can expect some local articles for FM area! Again, we’ve dabbled in this idea here and there throughout the years but this will (hopefully) become a new trend here at the Post.

Finally, I’d like to introduce you to our new articles. Most articles will now be classified under overarching genres like “Fashion Cents” (fashion related articles) or “Game Changers” (sports related articles).

You shouldn’t see a major change to the contents of articles being produced at the Post but more a shift away from the chaos previously featured.

You can read the new issue here!

Thank you for reading and best wishes,
From Logan Jacobs and the entire Editor Team

Revamping VCT

Valorant, as mentioned in a previous article, is a 5v5 tactical shooter most similar to a blend of Counter-Strike and Overwatch gameplay. Valorant is balanced around precise gunplay and strategic decisions such as characters and map picks.

Valorant is ever growing, every few weeks a new patch is released with varying degrees of changes, these changes can range from minor bug fixes to adding new characters or maps.

Starting in early January, a Valorant Championship Tour, or VCT, starts. This tour involves four regional tournaments and three international tournaments all culminating in a final championship event in early fall.
Currently, 48 teams compete in VCT with 40 of them being franchised from the start. The other eight teams earned their spot to compete in the league through Challengers.

Challengers is a league that runs parallel to VCT with a spot for franchising on the line, each major region runs their own individual leagues with no international tournament at the end.

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Alongside both Challengers and VCT is Game Changers, a league for marginalized genders, focusing on giving opportunities to those that may be discriminated against based on their gender. GC runs on an open qualifier system with the only requirement being that all players on a team must be of a marginalized gender.

Any GC team that qualifies for Champions will automatically be qualified for their local Challengers league, giving a direct pipeline from GC to VCT. This was one of the many changes announced by Riot Games during 2024 for the upcoming season.

The 2025 season also included an overhaul to the VCT schedule. The 2025 VCT season offers a denser schedule that places more importance on stage 2 compared to the 2024 season.

This season will also be longer, shortening the off season and in turn the amount of time spent not playing Valorant. The last major changes for the 2025 season were made to the Challengers system. Alongside changes to the points system, Challengers has received an upheaval to its old systems.

Challengers in the 2025 season will have a changed schedule and different point system based on the feedback received during the 2024 season. More importantly, two new types of teams will be competing alongside the old teams in Challengers, Academy and Game Changers teams.

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Academy teams is a system in which already franchised teams will create another team to foster new players in a competitive environment, the drawback of this system is that these teams, no matter how well they do, cannot qualify for ascension.

Despite the 2025 season not having started, a few predictions can be made. For example, the denser VCT schedule will lead to a more volatile state of Valorant that will cause domination to be even harder to achieve. Another prediction is that a wave of formerly Game Changer’s players will come to the main VCT circuit after Florescent, the best Game Changer’s player ever, made the first leap during this off season.

The last major prediction is that the Academy team system will flop in Americas because despite the individual team’s success, the players will not be able to advance to VCT because of the highly competitive nature of America’s. However, Academy teams in APAC, EMEA, and China will flourish because of it will show off young talents that underperforming teams can pick up. Although none of these predictions could come true, the only way to find out is to watch.