A new Youth eSports League has been setup in the UK to allow younger players to compete with one another.
It is organising an under 18s Call of Duty tournament with a prize pool of around £250 to start with.
Founders Jack Hurst and Adam Brown are hoping to attract 64 teams to take part in the league overall.
The first season will have 10 teams, with first place taking 60% of the prize pool, second place receiving 30% and third place taking home 10%.
James has set aside £250 to go into the prize pool, with teams able to enter the tournament for free.
The organisers have invited five teams to the league, and will host two open bracket qualifiers.
The 5 teams invited to the league are:@TeamEcHoGamers @ResenTGaming @FragmentEsports @LimitlessNation @Flash_HQ
Congratulations!
— Youth eSports League (@YELeague) February 21, 2016
Each team will play each other once in a best of five series and the matches will be regularly arranged on a schedule. Some matches will be streamed live on Twitch, while some of the teams such as Limitless Nation who will be streaming their matches on MLG.
Jack Hurst from the Youth Esports League told eSports News UK: “It’s a very competitive league – we hope to get the best teams that are not messing around as you can sometimes get with under 18 leagues.
“Once the first season has finished, we will evaluate how it went, the top three will be invited to join season two and then we will go from there.”
You can contact the Youth Esports League on Twitter (@YELeague) and eventually via its website which is currently in development.
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.
