Insomnia Gaming Festival took place over the weekend and as always it played host to a bunch of esports tournaments.
Among them were the usual BYOC tournaments as well as the BELONG Arena Clash Finals, which saw players compete in Tekken7, Rainbow Six Siege, Overwatch, Fifa 19 and League of Legends.
The participants included teams from BELONG Arenas across the country. To compete in Arena Clash, casual and hardcore gamers could join a team at their local BELONG stores and battle through five weeks of play before heading to the finals.
BELONG Arena Clash Finals
Tekken7
London Lionhearts vs Bradford Rams
Winners: London Lionhearts
https://twitter.com/BelongArenas/status/1119297419030798336
Rainbow 6 Seige
Plymouth Armada vs Bristol Sumgglers
Winners: Plymouth Armada
https://twitter.com/BelongArenas/status/1119376797622312960
Overwatch
Stratford Spartans vs Cardiff Saints
Winners: Stratford Spartans
https://twitter.com/BelongArenas/status/1119620994216415233
Fifa 19
Milton Keynes Enigmas vs Cardiff Saints
Winners: Milton Keynes Enigmas
https://twitter.com/BelongArenas/status/1119680542524542977
League of Legends
Portsmouth Pirates vs London Lionhearts
Winners: Portsmouth Pirates
https://twitter.com/BelongArenas/status/1119949430839443456
British Esports Championships
The schools and college finals in Overwatch, Rocket League and League of Legends took place at Insomnia64.
You can check out the winners (including school LoL winners Beyond Reality) here (schools) and here (colleges).
BYOC Tournament Finals
Elsewhere, the BYOC tournaments saw teams go head-to-head in Rocket League, League of Legends, Overwatch and CSGO, with a mix of prizing up for grabs dependent on team signups.
Rocket League
Breezi Flick vs Comrade Gaming
Winners: Breezi Flick
https://twitter.com/Comrade_GG/status/1119917020424880128
Overwatch
BloodTrail vs MnM Gaming
Winners: MnM Gaming
https://twitter.com/MnMGamingUK/status/1119973613732544512
League of Legends
No Ego vs Enclave Gaming
Winners: No Ego (read our match report and watch clips here)
https://twitter.com/Esports_News_UK/status/1120057650107101184
CSGO
London Esports vs DarkSpawn
Winners: London Esports
https://twitter.com/LDN_Esports/status/1120318446531698688
Watch our recent interview with London Esports here
League of Legends Intermediate
Finally, there were community tournaments that took place, including the 5v5 League of Legends Intermediate tournament and an all-random all-middle (ARAM) 2v2 tournament.
Organisers also gave the intermediate tournament a £500 prize pool.
These boys won:
Edited for clarity 😉 pic.twitter.com/X6e4V8u93U
— Andy ‘Sacari’ Horsley (@Andy_Sacari) April 21, 2019
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“This was initially supposed to be an all-random all-middle (ARAM) 2v2 tournament, but some requests from the community saw some last-minute changes made to a usual 5v5 Summoners Rift format. Organisers also gave this a surprise prize pool at the last minute, with the winners taking home £500.”
Just so you know the Intermediate Tournament ran alongside the ARAM 2v2 and LoL 1v1 tournaments (which also had prizepools of their own), it wasn’t a last minute change 🙂
That’s not what I was told but thanks for letting me know. Gonna double check with the Insomnia team and update this article accordingly. Cheers!