A host of UK and Ireland esports organisations will be taking part in the Rainbow Six Siege European Challenger League 2022 over the coming months.
These include Tenstar, Victus, Wylde, MNM Academy, Viperio 86, Jlingz Esports and Coalesce.
Wylde is the Irish esports organisation that has Usain Bolt on board as a co-owner, with Wylde recently announcing a partnership with Virgin Media. And Jlingz is the esports organisation of Premier League footballer Jesse Lingard.
And Victus are an org set up by a student from the University of Chichester, who placed well at Gamers Without Borders alongside Wylde earlier this year.
These seven UK and Ireland orgs will join nine others to form the 16 teams taking part in the European Challenger League 2022, which features a €50,000 prize pool and kicks off on October 14th 2022.
Other participating teams will include Activit-E Esports, Acend, Rebels Gaming (founded by Man U goalkeeper David de Gea), Mkers, Lan Party Hotel, Deathrow, Ovation, Les Pichichiiii and Vyalie Pitoni.
For this year, Ubisoft said:
“There will be no promotion/relegation matches between Season 2022 and Season 2023 of the European League. Instead, teams that would have been eligible for promotions, or promotion matches will see their performance rewarded by a substantial advantage in the qualification path leading to our international events next year.”
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Christopher Sword, founder of Viperio, said on Linkedin: “Delighted that Viperio is now confirmed as a competitor in this year’s Ubisoft European Challenger League 2022.
“Our second consecutive year qualifying for Ubisoft’s flagship Tier 2 European League, Viperio will take on 15 other teams including Usain Bolt’s Wylde, Jesse Lingard’s Jlingz and David de Gea’s Rebels Gaming.
“Played online and broadcast from the Ubisoft studio in Paris, the tournament will be one of our most watched this year, with 10k average concurrent viewers per game.”
You can see more info on the Siege European Challenger League 2022, including dates and groups, on the Ubisoft website.
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.
