EGX has concluded and a host of EGX Arena 2022 esports winners have been crowned at the UK’s annual games festival in London.
Grassroots tournaments took place across the weekend in Guilty Gear Strive, Splitgate, Rocket League, Street Fighter V, Valorant, Multiversus and even GoldenEye, as outlined in our EGX 2022 preview article.
Matches took place on the EGX Arena stage, with Reed Pop (EGX parent company) head of esports Luke Thompson working on the activities.
In Guilty Gear, Kanza and Rycroft won the two £500 Guilty Gear Strive opens respectively.
Moving onto the £1,000 Splitgate Open, Jordyn, Dimitar, Yousuf, and Etienne took the victory in the 4v4 shooter.
The most impressive achievement of the weekend has to go to Tagmata, however, who won THREE separate Rocket League 2v2 opens, with Mustlyn twice, and the third with Lofty_TM.
This made them the highest prize pool earners across the entire EGX 2022 weekend. Tagmata and his trusty traffic cone hat are making headlines yet again.
Looking towards Street Fighter V, and it was Shakz who won a £500 SFV Open and ImStillDaDaddy.
ImStillDaDaddy played in the now defunct Gfinity Elite Series years ago and opened up to the BBC about esports turning his life around.
In a newer game, the fighting game from Warner Bros, Multiversus, it was Falkunn who was the £500 open champion, who also picked up a PS5 and more. And Lgd_Star was named the after-hours champion in Multiverse.
Let’s not forget one of the most popular esports games of the moment: Valorant.
Spaghetti Munchers emerged victorious in the EGX 2022 £1,000 Valorant Open.
And, last but not least, EGX hosted a GoldenEye tournament. On the Nintendo 64. In the year 2022.
We’ve reached out to the organisers to find out who won and what they received, and will update this article soon.
British CSGO caster and personality James Banks was also in attendance at EGX with his son.
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.
