A host of UK Fortnite players have qualified for the upcoming FNCS Chapter 3 Season 3 EU Grand Finals taking place August 13th and 14th 2022.
UK esports organisation Lionscreed have made an impressive run in the qualifiers in particular, with at least three of their Fortnite players set to compete in the grand finals: Adn (who is with duo partner and UK org-less player Hardfind), and Michael and AstroSMZ as a duo.
Other UK players set to compete in the $1.36m finals include Guild Esports’ Hen, who won an ENCS EU final earlier this year, and has teamed up with Norway’s MrSavage. Guild’s Danish player Anas has also qualified, with UK player Pinq from fellow UK-based organisation Tundra Esports.
Tundra have another UK player in the finals – Veno – with Serbian player Queasy from Nigma Galaxy (an org that have just appointed former Rix.GG CEO as head of operations).
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Elsewhere, Welsh player JoeFN has also qualified with Romanian player zAndy, and UK player Nebs from Become Legends, is a duo with Dutch player Merijn from Siko Esports.
Lastly, the tenth UK player in the grand finals will be Vortexers from Siko Esports, who is matched with Swedish player Bevvys.
Manchester City Esports‘ Danish player Hellfire is also in the finals, with fellow Dane FlowiS from Copenhagen Flames.
“Really proud of our boys! I am personally looking forward to watching how they go up against everyone else. I am confident in their ability and looking forward to cheering them on with the whole LC community.”
Messina, Lionscreed
Other UK players that came close to making the finals but fell short in the qualifiers include Wolfiez from Excel Esports, Caythia, Splashy1x, Birchh and others, as well as Ireland’s Coope, Nipsy and Fractioned.
There are multiple stages in FNCS – qualifiers, semi-finals and grand finals – and two ways to qualify.
Players can progress to the next round via a victory royale, or by picking up points by killing other players and finishing high in the standings.
On having four players reach the grand finals, Lionscreed’s assistant manager Messina told Esports News UK: “Really proud of our boys! I can still remember our IRL meetup days before the competition, they were not nervous, but very eager to perform and do their best – and that’s exactly what they have done.
“I am personally looking forward to watching how our boys go up against everyone else. I am confident in their ability and looking forward to cheering them on with the whole LC community.”
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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.
