The esports caster line-up for the Insomnia 69 Gaming Festival (i69) has been revealed across its seven main games.
Insomnia 69 has seven main esports tournaments this time around: Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, Overwatch, Valorant, Team Fortress 2 and CSGO.
Organisers Player1 Events have this week announced the casters ahead of the finals taking place at the Birmingham NEC on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
First up, Giniro is on board as host across Insomnia 69, and hosted several activities today including a showmatch between British Army Esports and the RAF in Halo (won by the Army).
In Rocket League, there’s DigitalBacon and Craftman (who interviewed UK Rocket League player RelatingWave for Esports News UK earlier this year), and in Rainbow Six Siege there’s Deano and GraceV.
Next up, GreyHart and DocDa have returned to the League of Legends stage as a caster duo.
JohnPee is teaming up with SimBabble in Overwatch, and Twiggy and Gottmoxi (pictured, top) are once again returning to cast the Valorant BYOC Open finals at Insomnia 69, with Benelot working as an observer.
In CSGO, Neokai is casting again, as he did the i68 CSGO finals won by Into the Breach, and he is joined by LucyLuce.
Finally in Team Fortress 2 (TF2) at i69, Kaidus and Eepily are working as hosts, and casters include Beater, bum, Lucky, TurboTabs, wandum and more. The TF2 broadcast is put on by EssentialsTF, and is a bigger affair than the other games at i69 given TF2 LANs like this are more few and far between.
We’ll be covering the action at Insomnia this weekend and look forward to seeing the competitions play out.
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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.
