Insomnia Gaming Festival will return to the Birmingham NEC in 2023 for its 70th gaming and LAN event, also known as i70.
i70 will take place over the 2023 Easter bank holiday weekend, from Friday April 7th to Monday April 10th 2023.
Tickets for the event will go on sale from Tuesday November 15th 2022.
Once again it will feature halls with the latest video games, stage shows, content creators, a LAN hall, and of course, esports.
Organisers made the announcement on its social media accounts, after teasing it this week, with Insomnia saying its going platinum for April 2023 with its 70th edition.
While there were no specifics announced around the esports tournaments at i70, Insomnia did confirm that the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) Open tournaments will be returning as usual, along with Intermediate tournaments.
“Exclusive to the BYOC community, our BYOC Opens are your opportunity to show us what you’ve got, compete against the best of the best a win cash prizes. All finals are played on our massive esports stage!” Insomnia said on its website.
“If you’re just starting your esports journey, don’t let that put you off, we also run BYOC Intermediates alongside the larger tournaments (that’s where you’ll find us, we suck at Counter-Strike).”
Last year, SuperNova Capital acquired Insomnia from previous owners GAME, the UK video games retailer, and Insomnia founder Craig Fletcher joined the Supernova exec team to help relaunch the event.
Insomnia returned with its first live events in two years for 2022, following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic which saw Insomnia events in 2020 and 2021 cancelled.
You can see all the esports winners from i69 here, the most recent Insomnia event, which took place in August 2022.
Last month, Insomnia organiser Player1 Events announced a new CEO, with the founder taking on dual role to focus on strategy and reengaging with the community.
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.
