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Insomnia Gaming Festival 68 has just concluded, but organisers have confirmed that it’s returning this summer for the next edition: i69.
Insomnia 69 is due to take place from Friday August 26th to Monday August 29th 2022, during the bank holiday weekend.
The official Insomnia Gaming Festival Twitter account posted the following tweet saying the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) element will run from those dates above, while weekend tickets will be for Friday August 26th to Sunday 28th 2022.
Note the winking emoji below as we reach the sauciest Insomnia number yet.
Ticket sales have not yet gone live, but several attendees have been booking up hotels and making arrangements to attend the next one following a seemingly successful Insomnia 68.
There was a good amount of people flowing through the halls, as well as a very well-attended League of Legends i68 LAN final on the main stage, which was won by student team Grey Warwick.
The League of Legends BYOC group stage did have some scheduling issues, as did the CSGO LAN, which was also hit by server problems and long wait times for matches.
But the expo hall was relatively busy and several in the UK esports community (bar CS players for the aforementioned reason) largely complimented the event overall.
Esports News UK caught up with Insomnia founder Craig ‘wizzo’ Fletcher after the event, who said it went well, but as the name of the event suggests, at that point he looked like he needed a well-deserved rest!
We’ll be back with more post-event coverage from i68, including several video interviews, over the coming week.
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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.
