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The latest Belong Arena Clash tournaments in League of Legends, Valorant, Tekken and Overwatch are concluding this weekend at Insomnia68 at the Birmingham NEC.
These are separate to the Insomnia open tournaments and NSE student esports finals, and see regional Belong teams representing different parts of the UK as they look to become champions. Also, Belong announced a new esports title would be coming to the competition soon.
Here’s a quick look at each grand final result this weekend.
League of Legends – Leicester Raptors
The Raptors defeated the Stratford Spartans Heracles 2-0 in the grand final on Friday April 15th 2022.
Raptors roster of (top to support) Sprite, gegeokokea, samj1046, Albicoovlod and Pani Ewa beat Spartans’ Shieda, Catsyy, Zirvis, osmonkey and ichiroe. Raptors’ bot lane duo performed well as Miss Fortune and Nautilus in game one, going 14/4/6 and 1/4/22 respectively, then in game two mid-laner samj1046 dominated with a six-kill Yasuo.
Casting was by GreyHart and Saga.
Overwatch – Stratford Spartans
Stratford Spartans beat the Manchester Swarm 3-1 in the grand final of the Belong Arena Clash Overwatch final at Insomnia 68 on Friday April 15th 2022.
I (Dom) don’t have a ton of Overwatch knowledge so I won’t dare write loads of detail here, but caster Jace will hopefully be back with more insight later on!
Casting was by JacePT and Rhael.
Tekken – Bradford Rams
Bradford Rams defeated the Kingston Harriers to take the trophy away from London in what was a thrilling and well-fought grand final.
Immensely proud of the Rams, Huge love to @BelongKingston , See you next time!! https://t.co/UsGhfYoVQZ
— Belong Bradford Rams (@BelongBFD) April 16, 2022
Casting by Eternal Dragon and PunLife.
Valorant – Birmingham Defenders
Birmingham Defenders beat Wrexham Reapers 2-1 in the final of the Belong Arena Clash Valorant tournament at Insomnia 68 this weekend.
Well done to our guys for winning #VALORANT in our first #ArenaClash !
— Belong Birmingham Defenders (@BelongBhamFort) April 16, 2022
The guys came a long way but it all worked out and we take the Trophy home! pic.twitter.com/FFrbOEXhmW
Casting by Gottmoxi and Roooc.
Belong has also been running other tournaments on its stand at Insomnia, including battle royale activities:
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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.
