UK & Ireland Circuit, a CSGO Faceit hub and tournament organiser run by UK esports organisation Endpoint, has announced its first LAN event.
The event will take place at Endpoint’s Sheffield headquarters in December 2023 and feature four teams, with a minimum £4,000 prize pool.
Update (December 5th): The LAN is approaching on December 9th and 10th 2023, with Zola, Retr00 and Dweg casting.
Organisers will also cover travel and accommodation for teams.
Each team will have their own bootcamp room for the weekend, and access to Endpoint’s media studio.
Endpoint co-owner Peter Thompson said on Twitter in a video update: “I’m super happy to announce the UKIC is hosting its first LAN event. Endpoint will be committing £4,000 minimum to the prize pool and to support travel and accommodation.
“We’ve also set up crowdfunding to try and boost the prize pool and try to make it the biggest LAN the UK has seen in years (in terms of prize pool)’.
“Hopefully it’ll be a great event with chilled vibes, we don’t want to make this too serious but at the same time we have the ability to make some really cool media out of it and hopefully something that’s good for the scene. Hopefully you’ll get behind it.”
The news comes after the CSGO UK & Ireland Circuit became a CCT National Leagues Partner late last year.
It also comes after there were calls for ESL UK to run a LAN finals event for the CSGO ESL Premiership at those recent finals in December, won by Endpoint again.
UK & Ireland Circuit
The LAN news also comes as the first UK & Ireland Circuit CeX invitational of the year takes place this weekend.
A minimum of three events will take place this year including the LAN at the end of 2023.
Participating teams in this weekend’s invitational include Into the Bin, Royals, Team 7am and more.
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.
