The hunt for the best FIFA player in the UK and Europe begins

Gfinity will be hosting the FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Play Like a Legend Championship this year, boasting a prize pool of almost $30,000.
It’s the top official FIFA eSports competition in Europe and finals across three seasons will take place at the UK’s Gfinity Arena.
The Season 1 finals will take place on February 13th with a $7,000 prize pool, Season 2 on March 26th with a $7,000 prize pool and the Season 3 2016 Grand Final will take place between May 7th and 8th, with a $15,000 prize pool.
FIFA Points and EA Access prizes will also be given away. You can check out the specifics over on the Gfinity announcement article.
The Play Like a Legend qualifier cups are now open for registration over at Gfinity.net.

The top 12 players who acquire the most Gfinity points will receive an invitation to the Play Like a Legend Season 1 finals.
These will be broken down as follows:

• #1 PLAL Highest Leaderboard Rank
• Top 3 Placing UK PLAL Ranks
• Top 3 Placing France PLAL Ranks
• Top 3 Placing Rest of Europe Ranks (Excluding the UK, France and Germany)
• Top 1 Placing German PLAL Rank
• One Wildcard

Ben Wyer-Roberts, Xbox EMEA Esports Lead, said: “The Play Like a Legend tournament gives the best FIFA Ultimate Team players the opportunity to prove themselves and we’re building towards crowning a new Ultimate Champion at the Gfinity Arena London on May 8th.”
UK pro FIFA player Spencer “HugeGorilla” Ealing was recently named one of the highest-earning UK eSports players of 2015.
 

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.