A host of UK Rocket League players will be competing in the Rocket Clash women’s tournament at DreamHack Dallas next month.
UK esports organisations Williams Resolve and Endpoint will be taking part, along with global orgs Gen.G Mobil1 Racing Black and Misfits Gaming.
Both Resolve and Endpoint qualified for the tournament after reaching the upper bracket final in the EU Group Stage, with Resolve beating Endpoint 3-0. There wasn’t a main stream for this, and with DreamHack Dallas taking place in early June, it’s given players only a couple of weeks to arrange visas and travel.
Williams Resolve’s women’s Rocket League roster includes Scottish player Stvn and English players Duckz and Crimson, while Endpoint’s also features English players Slumpii and Takara, plus British/American player Alanis.
Some of these players also took part in the Commonwealth Esports Championships in Birmingham last year, with Crimson, Alanis and Takara winning gold for England.
Misfits also have a UK player on their roster – Welsh player Ravena.
And Endpoint has English coach Daijon and US sub geecee, while Williams Resolve have Welsh coach Tadpole and English sub Vix.
Endpoint Slumpii added on Twitter: “We worked so fucking hard for that, I’m so happy. People were chatting bare shit about us not being good being ‘fifth in EU’ and being washed. We proved you wrong. I love my team so much.”
Slumpii also told Esports News UK: “As a team we set out some goals about a month ago of what we wanted to achieve. Making DreamHack Dallas was one of them and, if anything, the main goal for us. Despite most people expecting us not to make it, we ended up qualifying in a game five against RNL Roar which is great.”
Irish team qualify for Collegiate World Championship running alongside Rocket Clash in Dallas
Rocket Clash has a $20,000 prize pool and will take place at DreamHack Dallas on June 3rd 2023.
There will be a live audience watching at the event, giving players the chance to perform on stage. The format for the LAN event is a single elimination best-of-seven, with one source telling Esports News UK they’d like to see this changed to a double elimination or group bracket format, so that teams can play more than one match.
As well as Rocket Clash, DreamHack Dallas will also hold the $75,000 Collegiate World Championship from June 2nd to 4th 2023.
Irish team South East Technological University Esports Club (SETU Esports) have qualified for the Collegiate World Championship, featuring players shallow, solo, tomster and coach Decomp.
The Keele Krakens from the UK narrowly missed out on a qualification spot for the collegiate tournament this year.
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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.
