Red Bull Home Ground watch parties for the official off-season Valorant tournament will take place across the UK.
The Red Bull Gaming Sphere watch party, hosted by The Goose House, will start on Sunday December 11th from 12pm midday to 10pm. The event is open to over 18s and free for everyone. Fans can register their interest to attend via this Red Bull Gaming Sphere watch party form.
Fans who were unable to get tickets to the third iteration of Red Bull Home Ground can also attend watch parties at Pixel Bar venues.
Pixel Bar will be hosting watch parties for the grand finals on Sunday December 11th at both its Leeds and Manchester venues from the 1pm to late.
Red Bull Home Ground – which was announced back in August – will also have a $100,000 prize pool. Red Bull Home Ground will take place live in in Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse, with teams, talent and tickets announced here.
This year, the Home Ground Valorant tournament has opened its doors to teams outside of Europe for the first time, for the chance to take home a share of the $100,000 prize pool.
Red Bull Home Ground will see eight of the world’s best Valorant teams go head to head. These include 100 Thieves, Team Liquid, Team Vitality, Fokus Clan, Kru Esports, Turkish qualifier winner Fut Esports, Heretics and Cloud9.
UK host Yinsu Collins returns to host the third iteration of Red Bull Home Ground alongside Mitch ‘Mitchman’ McBride, Tom ‘Tombizz’ Bissmire, Ryan ‘RyanCentral’ Horton, Beatriz ‘kaquka’ Alonso, Adam ‘Dinko’ Hawthorne and Connor ‘Sliggy’ Blomfield.
Red Bull Home Ground will be broadcast from Victoria Warehouse in Manchester and live on Red Bull’s Twitch channel and Red Bull’s YouTube channel. The event will also be broadcast by various co-streamers in multiple languages, with details to be revealed soon.
AGON by AOC is the official monitor partner for the event, while AMD joins Red Bull Home Ground as technology provider, and supporting Red Bull Home Ground as a peripheral sponsor is HyperX.
AGON by AOC is also sponsoring Esports News UK and Sweet Cabin’s UK Esports Christmas Party next week.
For more information on the watch parties and everything Red Bull Home Ground, viewers can join the Red Bull UK Community Discord for regular updates.
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.
