ESL UK studio to host RuneScape's Deadman Invitational with real-life 'Blue Moon Inn'

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 06/12/2016

The next Old School RuneScape Deadman Invitational will take place at ESL UK Studio 1 in Leicester this month.
The Winter 2016 tournament – a permanent death, free-for-all competition with $10,000 on the line for the last player standing – will get underway on Saturday December 17th.
ESL UK’s studio will feature competitions, freebies, a real-life iteration of RuneScape’s ‘Blue Moon Inn’ and a developer Q&A for the audience at the event.
As with previous Deadman Invitational tournaments, thousands of Old School RuneScape players will enter the battle royale server.
Past Deadman Invitationals have reached a peak of 90,000 concurrent viewers, and there has been three shows so far.
For more info and tickets, check out the link in ESL UK’s tweet below.

Exclusively join the @OldSchoolRS team and watch the finale of the Deadman Tournament live from ESL Studio One! https://t.co/vX7jv1Tw7s pic.twitter.com/SChh1apXFB

— ESL United Kingdom (@ESLUK) December 6, 2016

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. 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 also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.

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