Season one of the Scottish Esports League (SEL) will start soon.
The grassroots tournament is open to anyone and will cover ten games initially, with the first two being announced on-stream tomorrow (Wednesday March 21st at 7pm), and another two each week.
Every game has its own tournament manager and all games have been approved by the respective game publishers.
The league is hosted by event organiser Esports Scotland, and gets underway next week on Wednesday March 28th and Thursday March 29th.
Every game will have five single bracket tournaments over 25 weeks, where players and teams can accumulate points.
Each team/player in a league will accrue points depending on their placement in played tournaments for their specific game. At the end of the season, all points will be added up to produce the player/team’s season rank.
The top teams and players with the highest season rank in each league will be invited to a LAN final, where an overall winner in each game will be crowned. This will take place in Edinburgh on Saturday October 6th and Sunday October 7th.
“The Scottish Esports League has been designed to raise awareness and promote grassroots esports in Scotland. There are little to no professional esports teams in Scotland. We want to change this and the first step is SEL.”
As well as being a LAN final, the event hopes to celebrate esports in Scotland, with Q&As, stalls and live music planned.
There will also be an Open Last Chance Online Qualifier for each league in September, where one team/player will proceed to the LAN final for each game.
Esports Scotland will stream the matches live and hopes to produce a monthly show highlighting the tournament along with player and team profiles.
Esports Scotland said in a statement: “SEL has been designed, first and foremost, to raise awareness and promote grassroots esports in Scotland. There are little to no professional esports teams in Scotland. We want to change this and the first step is SEL.
“As well as SEL, we are in negotiations to have an Esports Scotland Cup later in the year for one more game, details of which will be made public in the coming months.
“Esports Scotland will be working with large and small Scottish esports tournament organisers as well as other esports organisations nationwide for this event. We plan to promote these organisations at every stage of the competition – especially at the LAN final.”
The Season 1 launch stream will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 21st March at 7pm) on our Facebook
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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.
