The Amazon University Esports UK and Ireland women and non-binary Winter 2022 playoffs have concluded in League of Legends and Valorant.
Amazon University Esports tournaments are run in the UK and Ireland by NUEL in partnership with GGTech.
Galactic Meow win League of Legends final as four-time achievement is made
Galactic Meow, an iteration of Celestial Cats/Ethereal Cats with a mix of players from different universities (officially listed as Staffordshire University), defeated Starlight (University of Stirling) 3-0 in the Winter 2022 Women and Non-Binary League of Legends playoff a few days ago.
The winning roster consisted of:
- Top: GertrudeThePony (She/Her) – University of Oxford
- Jungle: BIG Trez (She/Her) – University of Derby
- Mid: Yanako (Apple Soju) (She/Her) – University of Surrey
- ADC: Mirai (They/Them) – Staffordshire University
- Support: Mietteu (She/Her) – University of Southampton
UK jungler Trez, who recently joined BIG’s women and non-binary LoL roster, BIG Chroma, marked the four-time champion achievement on Twitter:
There’s more info on the Winter 2022 NUEL women and non-binary LoL final on the NUEL website and in the NUEL Twitch VoD here, with Blackbloxer and Rob (aka Rloweth) on casting duties.
Aschente sweep Boosted Egirls in Valorant final
Aschente (University of Surrey) beat Boosted Egirls (Durham University) 3-0 in the Valorant Winter 2022 Women and Non-Binary final this week.
The winning team consisted of:
- CTRL Pinka (She/Her)
- CTRL Vitrinix (She/Her)
- Bunny (She/Her)
- LBDR skeliaton (She/Her)
- ReX Egg (She/Her)
Zubear of Durham Uni’s Valorant team said:
However, the final was mistakenly run as a weighted best-of-five, when it should have been a regular best-of-five. As a result, Aschente were declared the winners on stream (3-0 after two game wins) in error. Organisers are arranging with the two teams right to fix a date to continue the match.
There’s more info on the Winter 2022 women and non-binary Valorant final on the NUEL website and in the NUEL Twitch VoD here, with Winteriio and Grace V on casting duties.
The NUEL Winter 2022 open finals in mixed League of Legends, Rocket League and Valorant will take place on December 9th and 10th 2022 at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham.
And NUEL’s Twitch channel is also today hosting the separate Rising Stars women’s League of Legends tournament.
Related article: How NUEL’s Women and Non-Binary university tournaments are making esports more inclusive in the UK
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.
