A couple of the UK’s better-known esports organisations have been announced as flagship partnered teams in the 2021 Home Sweet Home series.
This consits of multiple CSGO tournaments held by Relog Media throughout the year, starting with the $100,000 Snow Sweet Snow Cup #1, which runs from January 18th to February 11th.
Vexed Gaming and Endpoint will be taking part in the competitions and representing the UK.
In addition, German org GamerLegion will be involved, featuring UK players Adam9310 and dobbo, as well as UK coach ashhh.
A total of $1.2m will be up for grabs in prize winnings throughout 2021 overall.
Endpoint said they were thrilled to be a flagship partnered team, while Vexed added they were excited to take part and see what their roster can do in 2021.
Home Sweet Home is the name of the overall season, while Snow Sweet Snow is the first of four seasonal brands, and there will be three Snow Sweet Snow cups per season.
Tournaments will feature a regional GSL stage, regional swiss stage, main swiss stage and playoffs.
For the first Snow Sweet Snow 2021 cup kicking off next week, Endpoint will start from the main swiss stage, with Vexed in the GSL stage, facing GamerLegion, Sinners and TheDice.
Relog Media told Esports News UK that depending on each team’s rank, they will start at different stages in the competition.
Tournament organiser Relog Media is based in Serbia and also has a bootcamp facility for pro teams, while Grid has been announced as the data partner for the events.
There’s more info in this Home Sweet Home post on HLTV.
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.
