UK esports organisation Into the Breach had a good end to the year after winning the Trackmania World Tour 2023 Showdown event in dominant fashion.
This tournament took place online on December 17th and 18th 2022 as the first event of the Trackmania World Tour 2023. It was a showcase event designed to demonstrate the new format for Trackmania’s global leagues.
Eight teams took part – Alliance, Sinners Esports, BDS, BIG, Karmine Corp, Solary, Gamers First and UK org Into the Breach.
Into the Breach topped Group B with three wins and zero losses, before progressing through the playoffs and beating Alliance 4-0 in the final.
Into the Breach’s drivers mime (Poland) and elconn (Czechia) took home the gold, while several thousands tuned in to watch the competition.
Back in October 2022, Into the Breach named a partner team in Trackmania Grand League as the game adopted a 2v2 format.
The Trackmania World Tour will be an annual esports circuit featuring the Trackmania Grand League (TMGL) and the Trackmania Challenger League (TMCL), plus regional tournaments in NCSA, APAC, MEA and EU, as well as the annual Trackmania World Championship (TMWC).
Sam Cook, CEO and founder at Into the Breach, said in this Linkedin post: “Great way to kick-off 2023, rapidly falling in love with this game.
“Great ecosystem, great league system, great opportunities for audience engagement. Nadeo showing how esport should be done!”
Into the Breach had a solid year in 2022, winning the likes of the Assembly Summer CSGO LAN in Finland, the Insomnia 68 CSGO LAN in Birmingham and both the A1 Esports and Switzerlan Valorant finals.
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.
