Image: Student Alex Calladine has worked in the studio and on multiple events as a remote replay operator
The Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham is hosting a new international collegiate Halo esports tournament.
The Halo Clash Series will take place on January 7th, 8th and 9th 2022, with the winning team deciding which charity will receive funds raised through viewer Twitch donations. The format and number of teams are to be confirmed.
It will be the first live studio event in 2022 for the newly released Halo Infinite game, which announced its esports push and partnerships with ESL, DreamHack and Faceit last month.
The event will be supported by esports personalities including Leon Gids, Jacky, Blank, Lethal_HT and Iain Chambers.
Felix Moeller, another experienced esports industry executive who has done a lot of big events with Blast and ESL, will be flown out to assist with the tournament.
The Halo Clash Series will be produced by Jakub ‘Atroix’ Szmyt, who previously left the Staffordshire University esports degree course to work freelance and teach esports broadcast production at the Confetti Institute. He’s also looking to make a documentary series on Halo:
Additionally, Confetti will be hosting the 2022 Six Memevitational on January 15th and 16th, a global celebration of the Rainbow 6 Siege game with some top casters, pro players and content creators involved from around the world.
Both event production teams will be collaborating closely with Confetti’s esports production and live technical events students, providing them with hands-on experience, plus access and opportunity to a network of contacts within esports.
Confetti, a part of Nottingham Trent University, recently became the first in the UK to launch an esports production degree and announced plans to build a new £5m 14,000 sq ft multi-event esports venue and content creation facility called Confetti X, opening in early 2022.
Confetti said in a press release it’s set to ‘make Nottingham an emerging UK centre for esports through its education provision and world-class esports production facilities’.
In June 2022 the facility will also host the next British Esports Student Championships finals, as it did in 2021 summer.
The Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies is home to more than 2,000 students, and is a part of Nottingham Trent University.
In other recent UK Halo esports news, Lando Norris’ org Quadrant signed its first esports team and is playing in the Halo Championship Series 2021 Kickoff Major.
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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.
