The Red Bull 5G UK eSports tournament North regional finals get underway at the Play Expo in Manchester this weekend (October 8th and 9th).
There are five games in the tournament – Project CARS, League Of Legends, Rocket League, Hearthstone and Street Fighter – which is pitching teams from the North of the UK against the South. The Red Bull 5G UK tourney was first announced back in August.
Winning teams will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Japan.
According to the Red Bull highlight videos, the League of Legends teams that have qualified so far include Enclave Gaming, UoY Bother, Perilous Void and Team Sublime (for the North) and Recall, Indecisive Team Name, New Breed UK and the University of Exeter (for the South). See the results and brackets on the ESL website here.
Systems at the regional finals will be powered by Nvidia’s GeForce GTX graphics cards and anti-stutter G-Sync monitors.
The South regional finals will follow on October 29th and 30th at the MCM Comic Con in London (which will also host some of the ESL UK Premiership summer 2016 finals).
The winners from each regional final will represent Team North and Team South in a national final in Birmingham on November 20th.
You can check out the video highlights from five weekly qualifiers below:
You can watch the Red Bull 5G finals at RedBull5G.com.
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.
