UK eSports Weekly News Jan 27th - Feb 2nd

UK eSports Weekly News Jan 27th - Feb 2nd

League of Legends

The NEUL returns on the 9th Feb for term 2 of the competition

The National eSports University League is back for season two starting 9th February. Manchester won season one and will battle against 7 of the best university teams in the Super 8. Other teams will be fighting for spots in the Super 8 in the 2nd Division and with teams new to the competition being in the open division.

fm! eSports refreshes its LoL team before i51

Ahead of i51 FM! eSports LoL team has had an update. Former FM! eSports member who took the team to second at i50 has got some on his old team mates together to form the new FM! eSports. The new roster for fm! eSports is:

Top: Jamie “Tundra” DuthieMid: Syed “Mayh3M” HaqueJungle: Isaac “Akilord” Pelham-ChipperAD : Sam “Samwise” MittenSupport: Ryan “Akamezz” Buxton

Call of Duty: Ghosts

TP-Link sponsor CoD at i51

With Call of Duty growing as an eSport TP-Link saw an opportunity to sponsor CoD at the next Insomnia. They have provided a £5000 prize pool as well as some router bundles for the winners. 

Animate eSports pick up a CoD Ghosts squad

The third time in 3 weeks that Animate eSports have picked up a new player/team and this time its Call of Duty: Ghosts. Animate eSports are looking like quite a formidable force with their ever growing roster. Their brand new team hopes to attend i51. The new CoD line-up consists

 Saqib “Sxqib” JavaidHasan “Supreme” Shafi Kusal “Kushaay” Dissanayake Alex “MoRHeN” Morhen

FIFA

Gunnars sponsor the Winter Championship at epic.LAN

Sweetpatch.tv announced that Gunnar Optiks will be providing some prizes for their Winter Championship which will be held at epic.LAN. The current prize pool now stands at £500 and a pair of Gunnar Optiks. There are also lots of different FIFA events at epic.LAN with lots of different prizes so don't forget to check it out.

General

Shogun Bros sponsor Rasta Gaming

The peripheral maker Shogun Bros have announced a sponsorship between them and Rasta Gaming. Shogun Bros have sponsored some Starcraft 2 tournaments in the past at epic.LAN. Rasta Gaming with their Dota 2 and CS:GO squads are looking forward to the partnership and helping Shogun Bros grow.

epic.TWELVE going to be the largest epic.LAN to date

epic.LAN announced that their upcoming LAN epic.TWELVE is going to have the most amount of people attend in the events history. This event is going to be host to over 300 people and have 5 tournaments happening including the ESL UK Dota 2 challenge.

University of Manchester eSports society present the King of the North Tournament

The King of the North Tournament will be a tournament held at a gaming cafe in Manchester. A prize pool hasn't been announced yet but the tournament has attracted some impressive sponsors such as MSI and Cooler Master. Online qualifiers will be held on the 25th and 22nd, this is an event to lookout for!

Articles

Grow eSports UK have been writing some amazing articles about the UK scene over the past week and I would highly recommenced them. Check out them out:

http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/lagging-behind-uk-esports-scene/

http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/british-esports-venues/

I have also wrote an article about the UK scene and its future 2014. Check it out here:

http://ukesportshub.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/uk-esports-and-2014.html

If you want to attended an event this year check out Insomnia Gaming Festival and epic.LAN. Don't forget ESL UK do lots of tournaments and ladders.

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