Team United Kingdom defeated 15 other rosters to be crowned the PUBG Nations Cup (PNC) 2022 champions at the Iconsiam in Bangkok, Thailand on the weekend.
They finished first place with a total of 203 points and claimed $100,000 after four days of PUBG esports action.
Team UK were followed by Vietnam, Brazil and South Korea who claimed $58,000, $54,000, and $44,000 of the $500,000 prize pool respectively.
The UK PUBG roster consisted of Alex ‘vard’ Gouge (named tournament MVP), Christopher ‘Fexx’ Wheddon, Luke ‘TeaBone’ Crafer (who finished runner-up at Global Championship with Heroic), Michael ‘mykLe’ Wake and coach Justin ‘MiracU’ McNally.
Additionally, the team will also receive added funds from the Pick’em Challenge activation. The tournament was made up of nations from Europe, Asia, Asia Pacific and the Americas and featured a total of 64 players and 16 coaches.
You can see the standings from the PUBG Nations Cup 2022 here:
Team rosters for the PUBG Nations Cup 2022, the first PUBG esports event to return to a live audience in more than two years, was announced last month.
How Team UK performed at PNC 2022 & what the players said
Team UK started strongly securing the second win of day one and laying down a marker for their opponents. They followed that up with an impressive second place finish in match three where they picked up 18 kill points, the record amount for the opening day.
The roster continued its good display on the second day of action picking up another win to ensure they stayed in the hunt for the title.
Day three saw the team raise its game once more, enjoying 40 eliminations over the course of the five matches. Vard, Fexx and Mykle particularly shone, taking 12, 11, and nine eliminations each.
The squad’s fine form continued on the final day, winning match 17 and holding their nerve to claim the PNC 2022 title with 203 points. They beat off fierce competition from Vietnam and Brazil, who finished in second and third place respectively.
Team UK’s vard was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award after earning 36 kill points across the event.
TeaBone also said after the win: “I feel pretty good, obviously. We knew we were gonna win anyway, so what can I say?”
Elsewhere, Team Finland had an excellent start to PNC 2022. The roster won matches four and five to top the leaderboard after day one, with curexi, D1gg3r1 and PaG3 all finishing in the top five performers for the day.
Despite their strong start, Finland did not secure another win at PNC 2022, however the squad will be happy with a sixth placed finish overall. Team Turkey and Team Germany did not record any wins at PNC 2022 and concluded the tournament in 14th and 16th place respectively.
Rosters from Europe, Middle East & Africa will now look forward to the PCS7 Grand Finals starting in September, as well as various regional third party events, and the PUBG Global Championship 2022 at the end of the year.
Last year, UK team Exquisite Decode participated in the PUBG Mobile Pro League European Championship.
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.
