ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has today announced its first-ever Apex Legends ESL Premiership tournament for the UK and Ireland.
The tournament will kick off with open qualifiers from November 9th 2022.
Up to 20 teams will qualify for the full league, which runs from November 15th through to the live finals running from December 13th to 15th at a venue to be announced. The finals will feature a £5,000 prize pool.
The competition will feature a week-by-week points system where top-performing teams will advance to the next week, with the poorest-performing teams dropping out of the tournament.
Ten teams from the original 20 will qualify for the live finals, with seeding for the finals based on final point standings from the regular season.
The ESL Premiership (aka ESL Prem) is the UK’s longest-standing online esports tournament series having been in operation since 2015, and it has played an integral part in the evolution and growth of UK esports.
The tournament also welcomes Intel and Logitech as official sponsors, with the ESLUK social media channels posting content as the tournament progresses.
Followers will be able to keep up to date with all the tournament information, highlights from the broadcast, and vote for which players deserve the weekly ‘PREMVP’ award on Twitter.
Viewers can also catch the livestream on the ESL UK Twitch channel, with the regular split broadcast kicking off at 6pm GMT on playdays.
Key dates for the Apex Legends ESL Prem:
- November 9th – Qualifiers start
- November 15th – Regular split starts, play dates are as follows:
- November 15th-16th
- November 22nd-23rd
- November 29th-30th
- December 6th-7th
- December 13th-15th – live finals
Apex Legends has a host of UK talent. British player Jmw won the Apex Legends Global Series Split 2 Playoffs with Reignite earlier this year.
Elsewhere, there’s the CSGO ESL Prem which recently started its Autumn 2022 season and hasn’t had live finals for some time.
Qualifiers for the Apex Legends ESL Premiership kick off on November 9th. Players and teams can register for the ESL Prem Apex Legends qualifiers here.
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.
