ECL 3 kicks off in July, has £16,000 prize fund

Tickets have gone on sale for the European Console League 3 at Loughborough University – with £16,000 in prize money up for grabs.
There’s a range of game tournaments to enter including matches of Call of Duty, Halo: Reach and Super Street Fighter IV. We’ve got the full details here.

Here’s how the prize fund breaks down:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops (360) – 1st £2,500, 2nd £1,500, 3rd £1,000
• Halo: Reach – 1st £2000, 2nd £1000, 3rd £750
• Gears of War – 1st £1500, 2nd £850, 3rd £400
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3) – 1st £850, 2nd £400, 3rd £250
• FIFA 11 (360) – 1st £600, 2nd £300, 3rd £100
• Super Street Fighter IV (360) – 1st £600, 2nd £300, 3rd £100
• StarCraft II (PC) – 1st £750, 2nd £150, 3rd £100

To enter, it costs £240 per team of four. Individual tickets cost £60, or to enter a FIFA, Street Fighter or StarCraft tournament it’ll set you back £25.
Spectators can get in by paying £10 for one day or £20 for the weekend.
Leet will be competing in the Halo: Reach tournament.  Get practicing and we’ll see you there.
You can read more details, buy tickets or take a look at the tournament rules on the ECL website. Will you be attending?

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.