One of the youngest pro esports players in Britain will be appearing on The Gadget Show this Friday (March 31st) at 7pm.
14-year-old Benedict “MrKcool” Ward is expected to feature on the long-running Channel 5 TV show, playing Vainglory on a couple of smartphones.
TV presenter Jon Bentley asked MrKcool some questions about esports and Vainglory, as the Gadget Show compared different smartphones for various uses.
MrKcool told Esports News UK: “Being approached and filmed by The Gadget Show was a huge honour.
“Having watched the show myself for years, it’s quite special to think that this is a door that esports has opened for me.”
At its peak The Gadget Show attracted around 1m to 2m viewers per episode. Long-time presenter Jason Bradbury recently left the show to focus on other creative pursuits.
Earlier this week, MrKcool’s Lemon & Lime Vainglory team finished first in the EU Vaingloryleague Challenger Series, out of 64 teams.
They will now go in to the challenger battles against the bottom three teams from the Vainglory 8. They also won the recent EU Blitz tournament.
We interviewed MrKcool at the Vainglory European Winter Championship in London last year, where he was playing with German team Rebirth of an Empire.
Check out our full video interview with Benedict “MrKcool” Ward from last year below:
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.
