“Dude!”A. G. Pai didn’t realize at first that one of his classmates at the University of Texas at Dallas was talking to him.“Good job winning the Texas state championship.”“I’m like, ‘You knew about that?’ ” Pai said. “They were watching the stream. Nice.”Championship-level college sports teams across the state are typically well-known, competing before thousands of fans in person and regularly seen on national television. Not so for the UTD Comets teams that compete in various video games.The stream that Pai mentioned was a digital broadcast of UTD’s October victory in the Texas collegiate Super Smash Bros. championship, held at Texas State University. The Comets entered as the number two seed, beat number one Texas A&M in an early round, and then topped the Aggies again in…
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