RLCS rostermania is in full effect as a number of teams have announced Rocket League roster changes this week, including the signing of UK players.
UK esports organisations Endpoint and Williams Resolve have announced new rosters, as have Oxygen Esports and others. We’ve rounded up a trio of new rosters featuring UK players below.
Williams Resolve unveil ‘Quintissentially British’ roster
Williams Resolve certainly had fun with their video announcement, as casters Shogun and Stumpy start off talking about putting together a ‘Quintissentially British’ roster.
It’s an all-UK roster consisting of Welshman Breezi, as well as England’s FlamE, noahsaki and coach Ethzn (pictured above).
Shogun and Stumpy’s conversation is cut between shots of the new players, dressed in a football kit eating fish and chips, holding a Union Jack flag and wearing a crown, dressing up in Wimbledon tennis gear eating Strawberries, and wearing a Sherlock Holmes outfit!
The video was put together by Jonas ‘Jiggi’ Kontautas.
The news comes after Williams Resolve signed Welsh talent Tadpole as Rocket League manager and after Williams Resolve entered Fortnite esports.
Williams Resolve also sign all-UK women’s Rocket League roster
Williams Resolve also announced their women’s Rocket League roster for 2022/2023 on October 12th 2022.
They made their debut in the Bubble Trubble Women’s Cup and will be playing in the Women’s Car Ball Championship.
The roster includes Commonwealth Esports Championships gold medallist Crimson, Insomnia69 winner Duckz and silver medallist Stvn.
Endpoint bring on board Deevo, Crispy and more
UK org Endpoint also had fun with their announcement, as COO Peter Thompson showed off his acting skills with their new signing Deevo.
Former Guild and Barcelona player Deevo dressed up as a Game of Thones-style ‘king in the north’ and an MC, before revealing his true self in the Endpoint jersey.
Deevo, a RLCS Season 2 grand finalist and RLCS Season 3 world champion, is joined by fellow UK player Crispy, as well as Lithuanian player Simas and Slovenian coach Keda.
The news comes after RelatingWave, Metsanauris and Eclipse were recently let go from Endpoint after their contracts expired.
UK player RelatingWave formed an org-less team with fellow English players Kash and eekso, and are looking for an organisation to represent.
Endpoint also have a women’s Rocket League roster.
Oxygen Esports sign Archie from SMPR
US organisation Oxygen Esports also got in on the action, with their own announcement video set in London.
They announced UK player Archie, who joins them from UK org SMPR Esports, as well as Dutch players Oaly and Joreuz, and UK coach billy, in this below video featuring the players cleaning a Rolls Royce.
It’s been reported that Oxygen signed Archie from SMPR for a transfer fee of $35,000.
Guild announce new roster including UK player accro
UK esports organisation Guild also announced a new roster, though it was with a more simple gameplay video and player headshots:
They have signed Spanish players LuiisP and Stake, as well as UK player accro and Spanish coach Arleyobi, in a video that Resolve CEO Jeff Simpkins criticised following Guild’s recent £2m sponsorship deal with Sky:
The UK has a host of Rocket League talent. Moist Esports, who have UK players Rise and Joyo on their roster, won the Rocket League London Major earlier this year.
In other recent Rocket League UK news, Gregan will not be returning as talent for the RLCS 2022/23 season as his agreement with Psyonix fell through.
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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.
