Here’s all the eSports winners from this weekend’s i56 Multiplay Insomnia gaming festival at the Birmingham NEC.
Matches were streamed on the Multiplay Twitch channel.
Choke get revenge on Aerox to win League of Legends tournament
Choke Gaming’s recently formed UK super team was put together for i56, and its combination of well-known UK-based players was too much for the opposition.
The team beat Aerox Esports 3-1 in the final to pick up the £2,500 top prize, with Aerox walking away with £1,000.
However, it wasn’t an easy ride for Choke, with Aerox beating them 2-0 in round 2 to send Choke into the losers bracket. Aerox also knocked out TCA in round 1.
jamie and the hobbits take home first place! gg Choke pic.twitter.com/Mh2XqmvpQB
— Ben Forbes (@RiotDraggles) December 12, 2015
CeX crowned CSGO champions
CeX defeated Caz Esports 3-2 in the CSGO final to win £3,250.
They beat the likes of Team Infused and AT-Gaming along the way.
You can check out a more detailed write-up and the final standings here.
Millenium’s UK Call of Duty team take the top prize
Millenium won the greater spoils of the £3,000 prize pool in the Call of Duty: Black Ops III open.
Millenium’s new team – consisting of UK players Dylan “Madcat” Daly, Callum “Swanny” Swan, Tom “Tommey” Trewren and Irish pro Jordan “Jurd” Crowley – mopped up the opposition, after victory at the AM2Pro two weeks ago.
They beat Team Infused 3-0 in the final.
Rdu lifts Hearthstone Truesilver trophy
G2’s Romanian Hearthstone pro Dima “Rdu” Radu beat Legendaren 3-1 in the final to win the Truesilver Championship and $10,000.
Rdu turned it around after losing his first two series of the tournament, and made it through the tie-breakers to progress.
Here are the decks i used to win the @MultiplayEsport tournament. Will stream tomorrow after a well deserved rest 🙂 pic.twitter.com/vnCv14dv5C
— Dima radu (@G2Rdu) December 15, 2015
Epsilon win the Halo 5 open
Epsilon Esports took home £1,500 from the Halo 5 open, after beating Team Infused 3-0 in the final.
32 teams took part in the tournament with a £3,000 prize pool overall.
Dignitas wins Battleborn final
It seems that 2K is trying to push its shooter Battleborn into the world of eSports.
The UK’s very own Team Dignitas won the event this weekend, with 2K set to post match highlights on its Twitter page soon.
PCY edge The Hostile Otters at Rocket League
PCY beat The Hostile Otters in the Rocket League grand final to win the £1,500 top prize.
The Otters left with £750.
“Our opponents PCY took the game 4-0, giving us our only defeats for the entire tournament,” The Otters said on their Facebook page.
“Well done to all the teams taking part, and well done to our players – who many had written off as the underdogs of the tournament!”
SeemsGood are your Dota 2 champions
SeemsGood beat XeneX in the Dota 2 open at i56, with the former winning £2,500 and the latter picking up £1,000.
Well done to #Seemsgood beating #Xenex pretty convincingly in the grand final of the #i56 #dota2 tournament #ukesports #lan
— Brian Houston (@Shotgun_69) December 13, 2015
Image credit: Multiplay
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.
