UK esports organisation Excel Esports has extended its partnership with Chillblast as its official PC supplier.
The new agreement includes the creation of a bespoke range of Excel equipment with three systems covering beginner, player and creator specifications.
The branded towers are available on the Chillblast website and include the £769.99 Master Gaming PC, the £2,109.99 Grandmaster Gaming PC and the £5,189.99 Challenger Gaming PC, with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB.
A press release stated that ‘Excel and Chillblast will continue to push the limits of PC capability and quality by introducing innovative collaborations in the gaming and esports space’.
Excel Esports chief commercial officer Robin McCammon, said: “In Chillblast we have a dedicated and true supporter of Excel. The quality and speed of the Chillblast PCs allow us to compete at the highest level and prove ourselves amongst the world elite in professional gaming and Esports. We look forward to gaming together with this key partner.”
Excel, who compete in the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) as well as the newly announced Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC), will continue to use Chillblast PCs across the organisation. Excel’s pro players will be equipped with the PCs.
Ben Miles, director at Chillblast, added: “Chillblast is extremely proud to be working with Excel Esports. This team’s vision, passion and trajectory is exactly what’s needed to take British esports to the next level.
“With an exceptional training facility at Twickenham Stadium and a talented executive board, Chillblast is incredibly excited to be taking this journey with Excel.”
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.
