Long-running UK esports organisation Reason Gaming has announced a new series of Offline Invitational events, starting with a Street Fighter V tournament this month.
The first Reason2Play Offline Invitational will take place on January 29th 2022 at PC provider Bosecom’s facility in Watford, and will be streamed on the Reason Gaming Twitch channel.
It will feature six of London’s top players Street Fighter players and two Reason veterans, with participants including Boltstrike, JesterPower, Hurricane, The4Philzz (who recently represented Great Britain at the Global Esports Games) and more.
There will be eight players overall, with the final player to be announced soon.
The tournament will have a double elimination format and a £250 prize pool, with fans able to help increase the prize pool via the Reason2Play SFV Invitational Matcherino page.
While there won’t be the option for fans to attend in person this time around, Reason says it has “plans to grow these events in the future to allow for live spectators and more participants”.
Reason said: “Offline events are something we’ve been wanting to run for a long time now, but with COVID turning all plans upside down for the last two years, we have had to put plans on hold until we were able to run events safely and responsibly.”
Partners for the event include PC brand ThermalTake, which has provided Reason with Argent E700 gaming chairs for the tournament, and focus supplement Beyond NRG, which has supplied the org with eight Discovery Packs each consisting of a shaker and five powdered energy drink flavours.
In other recent Beyond NRG news, the brand recently partnered with SK Gaming and UK retailer Superdrug began stocking Beyond NRG for the first time.
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.
