i59 winners roundup

In what is possibly the slowest esports ‘news’ article we’ve ever written (blame this guy), here’s a roundup of the winners from Multiplay Insomnia59 earlier this month.
 

League of Legends

Danish organisation Magistra won this tournament (pictured above), beating ESL UK Premiership champions MnM Gaming in the final 3-2.
Former TCA ADC and UK scene prodigy Matt “Deadly” Smith played for the side during the tournament, and is now a free agent again.
In the UK Masters, Distrikt beat MnM Gaming 3-0.

Congratulations to our @UKMasters League of Legends champions: District! #i59 #GAMEati59 pic.twitter.com/NN0ejOcg9K

— GAME.co.uk (@GAMEdigital) December 9, 2016

CSGO

FM-eSports beat Team EndPoint 3-1 in the final of the CSGO UK Masters, with the teams taking home £7,000 and £4,000 respectively. There’s a longer match report on UKCSGO here.
FM completed the sweep over EndPoint, beating them in the final of the overall CSGO open too.
FM were also the subject of this sarcastic/narky Reddit post following the tournament.
 

Overwatch

Greek esports organisation Elysium Gaming won the £5,000 Overwatch BYOC open.
They made it to the finals undefeated, where they beat the team called Get It Done.
 

Hearthstone

Torpedo’s British Hearthstone player George “BoarControl” Webb cleaned up at Insomnia, winning the £1,000 Hearthstone top prize and the £2,500 first place finish in the Hearthstone UK Masters too.
Check out our previous interview with BoarControl here after he won the spring ESL UK Premiership.
 

Rocket League

MockIt Jewels defeated FM-eSports in the final, with the winner receiving £1,250 and runner-up £650.
 

Call of Duty

Bulldog Esports were the Call of Duty i59 champions – they beat Valour Esports to take home the £1,500 top prize.
 

Battlefield 1

This tournament was cancelled after only two teams signed up, according to the Battlefy page.
 
Image source: Multiplay Flickr

Dom Sacco

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.

As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.