Sunday, 19 January 2014

UK eSports Weekly News 13th - 19th

13th - 19th UK eSports Weekly News

League of Legends

ESL Intel Christmas (ish) Cup

Last weekend saw the finals of the ESL Intel Christmas (ish) cup where some of the best LoL teams in the UK battled it out for £500. The favorites UK Piffest took the cup with a 3-0 final over FM RaiderZ with Perilous Rift coming in third.

1st: UKs Piffest
2nd: FM RaiderZ
3rd: PerilousVoid 


Dignitas UK Disband

One of the UK's best LoL teams disbanded this week, Team Dignitas UK. Supa Hot Crew XD used Dig UK's jungler during the promotion tournament as a sub but now has taken him on the roster. This was an opportunity that he couldn't miss and with Impaler gone the rest of Dig UK decided to disband. I wish every player luck in the future.


Dota 2

Reason and Rasta with Some Roster Changes

Reason Gaming's carry 'infernokoi' has decided to retire to concentrate on university but Reason swiftly found his replacement in the form of 'Gronors' who will be attending epic.LAN with Reason. Also Rasta.gaming have has some changes with its roster with 3 people leaving but now have rebuilt a full 5 man team. 

UKDota.net going to host a small amateur cup

UKDota have said that they are organizing a small amateur cup for all the new players out there. Hopefull it should go ahead in the next few weeks.


Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Gamdias and Multiplay Start Bi-weekly CS:GO Cups

Gamdias and Multiplay have announced that they are going to run bi-weekly CS:GO Cups with cash prizes. £125 and Gamdias peripherals are up for grabs with the tournaments starting today with 8 teams involved.

Rasta.Fivemanistan make changes

Rasta.Fivemanistan have had some roster issues with leaving due to personal reasons they have decided to combined with fm! INC to complete the roster of Rasta.Fivemanistan.



Call of Duty: Ghosts

COD Championship Preliminary Qualifiers #1

Yesterday saw the first of two UK/Ireland preliminary qualifiers for the COD Championship were the prize pool is $1 million. The top 8 teams from both qualifiers will be invited to a LAN in London to fight it out to represent the UK at the COD Championships.



FIFA 14

Sweetpatch.TV to host the Winter Championship at epic.LAN

Sweetpatch.TV have announced that at epic.LAN there will be lots of FIFA competition for everyone with the Winter Championship. They have once again partnered up with MadCatz with prizes to be announced closer to the event.

General

ESL UK announced 3 new ladders

ESL UK have been working hard and produced 3 new ladders for 3 games. LoL, CS:GO and Dota 2 all got their own ladders on ESL network. You can arrange times and find opponents easily.

Don't forget to follow the UK eSports Hub twitter @UKeSportsHub and subscribe to the reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/UKeSportsHub/


  

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