CSGO UK & Ireland Circuit becomes CCT National Leagues Partner

UK & Ireland Circuit, a CSGO Faceit hub and tournament organiser run by UK esports organisation Endpoint, has partnered with the Champion of Champions Tour (CCT).

The UKIC has become the official National Leagues Partner for the UK and Ireland, and will qualify teams for the CCT National League Finals to be held in 2023.

This also means that UK & Ireland Circuit tournaments will offer CCT ranking points, to seed teams into future CCT events.

This ties in with UK & Ireland Circuit’s goal of providing a pathway to professional play for upcoming talent in the UK and Ireland, and follows on from the BeyondNRG Invitational tournaments held in 2022, with the Winter Invitational in December completing a total of £6,000 in prize money.

This partnership with CCT will allow UKIC to offer more support to UK players, in the form of additional prizing, official fixtures and opportunities in the global CCT circuit. 

Further details will be announced for tournaments to be held in 2023.

Fabian Logemann, head of tournaments at CCT National Leagues, said: “We created the Champion of Champions Tour with the ambition to offer opportunities to teams, brands, tournament organisers and most importantly the players who work tirelessly to make it in the game they love so much.

“Today, we’re happy to announce that CCT National Leagues is opening more pathways for players to compete in our global circuit and are acknowledging the impressive efforts of tournament organisers around the world. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with this strong group of organisers and to bring the CCT to even more communities.”

Peter Thompson, COO of Endpoint, added: “We are extremely pleased to sign a partnership with the CCT, allowing our regional events another path to pro route into the global CSGO ecosystem. From starting these events I have always wanted them to do two things, firstly give HLTV representation to UK and Irish players, and secondly have the opportunity for them to link into something bigger, both of which in my eyes helps nurture talent and the scene as a whole.”

Endpoint also a part of $1m USDT Faceit esports event with WhiteBit

Faceit recently announced the next phase of its partnership with WhiteBIT, a cryptocurrency exchange, with the launch of the WhiteBit Community Clash.

And UK org Endpoint have a clan within it, where members can compete for a share of $1m USDT and a chance to play at Dreamhack Valencia, alongside Endpoint’s professional players led by UK player Max ‘MiGHTYMAX’ Heath, a founding member of UKIC.

Faceit players and fans are invited to join one of the 60+ largest EU and South America streamers and pro team clans to compete for a portion of the prize pool, 100 million Faceit points and a chance to make it to the aforementioned live finals at Dreamhack Valencia in Spain on December 9th to 11th 2022.

Players prove their mettle by picking a clan and participating in matches to earn points. The more members, wins and points, the more your clan has a chance to make it to the finals.

At the end of the first phase, the bottom ten clans are eliminated. The remaining clans will compete to make it to the playoffs based on rankings in a single-elimination, best of three tournament.

Clan leaders will select four players and two substitutes to represent the team at the quarter finals and semi finals in Dreamhack Valencia. The finals will see the top two clans from each region go head to head at the event, where they will compete on stage for $1m USDT. All of the members of the winning clan will receive a portion of the prize pool.

The full list of WhiteBit Community Clash clans can be found here

Dom Sacco

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.