Photo credit: Confetti and Tom P Morley
Some of the best university teams in the UK and Ireland are set to compete for thousands of pounds in prize money at the Amazon University Esports Spring Finals in April 2023.
Nottingham’s Confetti X venue will see the Spring 2023 season of Amazon University Esports, run by NUEL in partnership with GGTech Entertainment, reach its finale on the weekend of April 22nd and 23rd.
The Amazon University Esports Spring Finals will feature top esports titles League of Legends and Valorant, plus the grand finals of the competition’s Women & Non-Binary Valorant tournament.
Confetti X is at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, which is part of Nottingham Trent University.
This Spring term, hundreds of university esports teams from around the UK and Ireland have taken part every week in online tournaments to showcase their skills and test themselves. More than 1,000 students from more than 100 universities in the UK and Ireland participate in Amazon University Esports.
There will also be European qualification on the line at the Amazon University Esports Spring Finals. The finalists of the Open League of Legends and Valorant tournaments competing for a chance to represent Great Britain in the Last Chance Qualifier of the Amazon University Esports Masters in May. This is the continental competition where students represent their country to become European champions. The seventh edition of the competition will feature 21 players representing more than 680 universities.
Already qualified UK teams include those fro the University of Kent, De Montfort University, Staffordshire University, University of Exeter, University of East Anglia and the University of Warwick. There’s more info in the initial Amazon University Esports Spring Season 2023 announcement from the start of this year.
NUEL and GGTech will also be partnering with Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies to facilitate education and real-world experiences behind the scenes, for students from multiple courses including BSc (Hons) Esports Production, BSc (Hons) Event Production, BA (Hons) Content Creation and more.
The event will also see the conclusion of the Amazon University Esports UK and Ireland Spring Split Leaderboard, in which every competing team across the tournaments can contribute to their university ranking through wins in Amazon University Esports tournaments.
Amazon University Esports Spring Finals Schedule
- Saturday 22 April 10:30: League of Legends (Best-of-5)
- Saturday 22 April 16:30 – Women & Non-Binary VALORANT (Best-of-5)
- Sunday 23 April 10:30 – Open Valorant (Best-of-5)
Free tickets are now available for both days at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amazon-university-esports-uk-and-ireland-spring-2023-live-finals-tickets-569648292377. The Amazon University Esports Spring Finals will also be broadcast live at twitch.tv/thenuel.
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.
