The first games in the £20,000 League of Legends UK Masters tournament took place this week. We take a look back on what’s happened so far.
After the qualifiers concluded and the first few LoL teams entered the UK Masters, the tournament is now underway.
Monday’s matches were cast by Excoundrel and Dezachu, with Vedius and Weskerbiscuit covering Tuesday’s games.
In the first match of the week, i58 winners MnM drew 1-1 with Sensei, placing the teams in fourth and fifth place in the league respectively.
First blood goes the way of Sensei! https://t.co/Rt09Tec38O#UKMasters pic.twitter.com/igOYvd5dHV
— UKMasters (@UKMasters) October 10, 2016
The other fixture on Monday saw Distrikt (a mix team featuring Origen ADC Toaster, Candyfloss and others) beat Perilous 2-0, moving them to the top of the table.
On Tuesday, TCA beat LF Org (another mix team featuring support Nutri, former Paria mid-laner Vicksy and UK veteran Tundra, playing in the top lane) 2-0.
It’s all going on in game 2 between TCA and LF Org! https://t.co/Rt09Tec38O#UKMasters @AOC_Gaming @GAMEdigital pic.twitter.com/exMbFm6Ccp
— UKMasters (@UKMasters) October 11, 2016
UK Legends (consisting of Sebla ADC, U K, Energy IceCold/Zhandia, Bowsêr and Shikarì) beat exceL eSports 2-0 to round off the week’s games.
UK Legends take a long game 1 vs @exceL_eSports with a tidy Ace at the very end.
Game 2: https://t.co/Rt09Tec38O pic.twitter.com/w0gFz9zGnD— UKMasters (@UKMasters) October 11, 2016
The league will continue each Monday and Tuesday evening from 7pm to 11pm for seven weeks over on the UK Masters Twitch channel.
Here’s the current standings:
Source: UK Masters website, week 1
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.
