The broadcast talent line-up for the inaugural ESL Impact women’s CSGO league finals has been revealed, and a UK starlet is leading the line-up.
UK esports host Jasmine ‘Veracity’ Kanuga is hosting the event, and she’s joined by an experienced line-up of casters, analysts and more.
Hedje and sapphiRe are on board as analysts, while Anders, Bled, LucyLuce and Vearless are casting, and Heccu is on the team as a sideline reporter.
Veracity, who was recently a part of the Gamers Without Borders Rocket League event, said she was ready for some banger games with the vibes flowing from the talent line-up on Twitter:
The Season 1 ESL Impact finals in Dallas has a $123,000 prize pool, and we’re told the broadcast talent above will be broadcasting from Sweden. The finals feature eight teams:
- Nigma Galaxy Female
- BIG Equipa
- CLG Red
- Please Send Help
- Furia Esports Female
- Black Dragons Female
- ATK.gg
- MindFreak
Nigma and BIG are Europe’s representatives.
ESL Impact will have two league seasons and live finals this year, as well as online cash cups. It’s part of ESL’s new CSGO Women’s Circuit. ESL announced its $500,000 CSGO Women’s Circuit and #GGForAll program in December 2021.
One month later, ESL and Faceit were acquired by Savvy Gaming Group (SGG), which is 100% owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund – its government’s Public Investment Fund – in a $1.5bn deal.
The move was criticised by pockets of the esports community for Saudi’s human rights record, with some saying it’s an attempt at ‘esportswashing’ – and that the women’s circuit announcement came ahead of the acquisition announcement to placate the community in advance.
Regardless, ESL Impact is providing women’s esports talent with a significant prize pot and it’ll be interesting to see how the tournament series develops in 2022 and beyond.
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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.
