The final eight university teams taking part in the Fragsoc CSGO Invitational have been confirmed.
The LAN event – announced a few months ago – will take place on November 25th and 26th at the University of York campus. It will be streamed live from 12pm to 7pm on the Saturday and 10am to 7pm on the Sunday.
The winning team will win the £500 top prize, sponsored by TalkTalk.
Organiser Jordan “SynonymForTree” Reece previously told Esports News UK: “I believe university esports has the potential to provide grassroots foundations for UK esports – and hopefully having LAN events like this can help develop more talent.”
The participating teams and rosters are as follows:
University of York
- Daniel ‘pixL’ Groom
- Iwan ‘Eyewan’ Harvey
- Jack ‘Jack’ Forryan
- Joshua ‘ndl’ Venters
- Luke ‘LSW24’ Wetherall
Lancaster University
- Callum ‘Enigma’ Merrill
- Rhys ‘Exparilis’ Maddren
- Toby ‘Tobz’ Myles
- Matthew ‘QPC | Matt’ Taylor
- Gabriel ‘oaK’ Niedojadlo
De Montfort University
- Halim ‘-Juicy’ Azeez
- Ryan ‘RJP’ Payne
- Jack ‘J4CK’ Slosmanis
- Milo ‘miNi McMahon
- Sam ‘Prydzy’ Clark
University of Hull
- Dhillan ‘AlphaKennyV2’ Kumar-Kauldhar
- Adam ‘GHOST’ Knight
- Liam ‘Clarky’ Clark
- Sam ‘sharpie’ Sharp
- Jack ‘zZpirit’ Wright
University of Derby
- Mark ‘Su10kt’ Flanagan
- Thomas ‘teddsteR’ Dutton
- Connor ‘Geetoff Mi Lorn’ Spinks
- Elliot ‘Elmo’ Brown
- Ben ‘Dodgypig’ Bryce
Keele University
- Tyler ‘Vanilla’ Wells
- Ryan ‘Hizy’ Hissey
- Liam ‘Toastwiz Franks
- James ‘Mully’ Mulhearn
- Adrian ‘Guesty’ Guest
University of Warwick
- Philip ‘m_fx’ Holland
- Jack ‘masoN’ Mason
- Jacob ‘OriginalG’ Girling
- Toyaj ‘Tanu’ Singh
- George ‘Gibby’ Gibson
University of Sheffield
- Lewis ‘TheLegendL’ Hernaman
- Thomas ‘Caesura’ Kelly
- Joshua ‘Feels Baz Man’ Bazley
- Theo ‘Chill’ Barefoot
- James ‘mynameisrayman’ Raeside
You can check out more details on the Fragsoc Invitational Facebook page
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.
