Esports News UK’s 24-hour GameBlast charity gaming marathon has concluded – and you helped us raise £650 for SpecialEffect!
The money will go to people with disabilities to help them play the games we love.
More than 80 of you from the UK esports scene took part over the weekend as we got stuck in with some great League of Legends matches, 1v1s and other fun games including Hearthstone and Overwatch.
We hit two forfeit milestones, so caster Sandstorm will be dyeing his beard, and Team ENUK and CSGO player Chris Bell will be sharing some embarrassing young photos of ourselves over the next week.
You can check out the VoDs from the stream on the ENUK YouTube channel – we’ll be uploading videos throughout the week so do check back then.
We’d like to do some more streams in the future, maybe live interviews and chat shows, so do follow ENUK on Twitch and join our Discord.
We’d like to do some more streams in the future, maybe live interviews and chat shows, so do follow ENUK on Twitch and join our Discord.
Many of you also followed ENUK on Twitter and got involved using the hashtag #UKEsportsGameBlast, so thanks for being a part of it.
Apologies for the CSGO problems, we will do our best to get that properly sorted for the next stream.
Thank you all so much for donating, and a special shout out to Simon Best and Team EndPoint for some real whopping amounts donated, and of course to the production team, casters and all of you who took part and watched.
If you still want to donate something, you can donate here.
Find out more about the great work of SpecialEffect here.
Finally, ENUK editor Dom Sacco said a few words in the video above to thank you all again and make some shoutouts. Thanks again!
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.
