Tournament organiser the ACCL is hosting a VibePay Spring Invitational in Sheffield from May 7th and 8th 2022. It’s billed as the first CoD LAN in the UK since the start of the pandemic.
This will take place at the Lava Esports centre located at 2 Rockingham Street, S1 4LZ, and it will feature a £3,000 prize pool.
ACCL announced the LAN tournament on Twitter last month, and one team organisation recently sent us additional details on the event.
Irish esports organisation Katana Gaming have just picked up an all-English squad in Call of Duty to represent them in the ACCL Spring Invitational LAN in Sheffield.
Katana Gaming CEO Heffy told Esports News UK: “This is the first UK Call of Duty LAN event since Covid began. The players we have picked up are all top EU well-known LAN players, two of them just recently returning from the Rokkr LAN in the US.”
Katana’s players include Keza, Aroma, Chaaxter and Gismo, who usually plays for Call of Duty League team London Royal Ravens.
Gismo recently announced he was returning home to the UK for personal reasons, and is working on his mental health to come back stronger for the Ravens.
In the meantime, the Ravens have brought in Harry to their starting roster.
It’s welcome news to see some live Call of Duty action in the UK following the pandemic. The most recent live CoD event in the UK was the London Royal Ravens homestand event at the Copperbox Arena in February 2020.
The Ravens recently finished top three at CoD Major 1, before a more disappointing showing in Major 2, and the Royal Ravens’ parent company was recently acquired by new owners.
In other Katana Gaming news, the Irish organisation recently announced their own Katana grassroots Valorant tournament with a £260 prize pool.
Separate organisation Endpoint are also based in Sheffield, though they also have a presence in Shoreditch.
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.
