Eight London universities will be taking part in a League of Legends tournament this month as part of a London University Esports event.
The events are running at the New Meta Gaming Arena, which recently opened in North London, with Monster, FedR8tion and Cooldown on board as partners.
LAN events are running on November 17th, 21st and 27th 2022, with the finals on December 5th. In terms of prizing for teams, the winners will receive a bundle of free Monster drinks and potentially free hours at the New Meta venue.
The participating university LoL teams are as follows:
Bracket 1 (Thursday November 24th, 6pm)
- Queen Mary
- UAL
- LSE
- University of East London
Bracket 2 (Monday November 21st, 6pm)
- Roehampton
- City University
- UCL
- Goldsmiths
The league has been put together by UAL student Kuba Wieczorek, who is the founder and CEO of London University Esports.
Kuba told Esports News UK: “London uni esports is a league that’s by university students for university students. We have eight universities taking part which are split into 2 round robins. They will be playing three games each in person at the New Meta Gaming Arena, we will have a viewing party and live stream on twitch at twitch.tv/lnd_uni_esports.
“Our last test event had 100 concurrent viewers and over 1,000 viewers in total, with a sold out viewing party. It was really something special. We want to show how London universities can come together and create a spectacular event. I’m a student at UAL, the casters are students at UAL, LSE and others. We want to give these people opportunities to give them gateways into the gaming industry and we already see the benefits of this, with Monster and Cooldown sponsoring us.”
There’s more info at London University Esports on the group’s linktree page
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.
