Dota 2
Gamdias and UKDota announce first Sping Open
Gamdias having sponsored two CS:GO and Starcraft 2 tournaments with Multiplay in February have now partnered up with UKDota.net to bring you a cash prize Dota 2 tournament. 16 teams will be competing for £125 for first place. Check out this post for more information on how to sign up.
Plusecore gaming form a new UK Dota team
Plusecore already having two other UK teams (CS:GO and LoL) have taken the decision to make their own UK Dota instead of picking one up. The newly formed team are unsure if they will be ready for i51 but are definitely looking towards i52.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
fm! TOXIC with a name change and a major roster change
fm! TOXIC now to be known as fm! eSports as they only have one CS:GO team. But in bigger news the team have brought on some experienced players like Whindanski, Puls3, rdl and one of the biggest names in UK CS RattlesnaK. They will be attending Copenhagen Games in April for a chance at the 26,000 euros (£21,418) prize pool.
epic.LAN winners Team CRG picked up by Team Infused
Team Infused have picked up the epic.LAN winners Team CRG as CRG has decided to call it a day and close. Team Infused went through the whole of epic.LAN only dropping one map they are looking extremely strong but now have good competition from the new fm! eSports. When these two teams meet this will be a game to watch.
Call of Duty
4 UK teams make it to CoD World Championships
TCM Gaming. Epsilon eSports, Team Orbit and TEC have all won their qualifiers at the Gfinity event in London to proceed onto the event in Los Angeles for a chance at the $1 million prize pool and with first place taking $400,000. But the event didn't end their all qualifying teams then played in the European championship. All 4 teams did the best they could with Orbit unfortunately getting knocked out first round, TEC taking the 3rd/4th position and with Epsilon and TCM in the final. TCM proved to be the better team at this event and took home $15,000 and the top seed at the CoD champs for EU.
TP-Link UK Invitational
TP-Link who recently sponsored i51 CoD tournament have now announced their own tournament the TP-Link UK Invitational. This will be played online over the course of a month with two group matches a week and then the semi and finals matches on the first two Saturdays of April. The prize pool is £1500 but the distribution is slightly different. Its £50 for every group match you win, £175 for the semi finals and £400 for the grand finals.
General
Oxford and Cambridge take their rivalry to a virtual level
Oxford and Cambridge are usually known for their competitiveness when it comes to boats but Oxford eSports society decided to take it to the next level. With sound blaster and creative they chose 3 games to decide which to of the two universities were better in competitive gaming. First was Starcraft 2 which was the closest game of the day as Cambridge took the game 3-2 but Oxford weren't going to back down without a fight and took the LoL tournament 3-0. With one game left Cambridge took game on of Dota but had to leave early. Oxford being the nice guys forfeited the rest of the games meaning Cambridge took the title.
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