For the first time in its eight-year history, the Amazon University Esports Masters LAN finals will be held in the UK in 2023.
The live finals will take place on Saturday July 8th at the Confetti X esports complex in Nottingham, and will see the best university esports teams from across Europe taking part.
The event is the conclusion of an academic year in which over 10,000 players from over 1,000 universities in 21 countries competed to make it to this final stage of the competition.
The live finals will feature League of Legends, Valorant and Rocket League, crowning this season’s European University Champions.
In-person attendees with tickets are welcome to come along any time of the day to see whichever games they wish. The event is free to attend and, in addition to hosting the top university teams in Europe, will also feature a casual gaming area for attendees to enjoy, as well as organised activities with esports-related giveaways.
The Amazon University Esports Masters is run as a whole by Spanish technology company GGTech Entertainment, and the finals will be delivered in the UK by NUEL, in partnership with Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. This follows the recent announcement that GGTech has acquired NUEL to expand its activities in the UK and Ireland gaming and esports sector.
In a year of firsts, this will be the first time that a game other than League of Legends will be featured in the University Esports Masters LAN finals, with Valorant and Rocket League also taking place. It is also the first season of the AUEM to include teams from the Middle East and Africa.
University Esports Masters LAN schedule, broadcast and talent line-up
The League of Legends Finals will take place first at 09:45 am UK Time (BST). It is an all-German match-up; teams ‘AIX Schwer’ (Rheinisch Westfälische Hochschule Aachen) and the ‘Dr Buhmann Akademie [H]’ League of Legends Team (Dr. Buhmann Schule & Akademie) will face each other in a best-of-five final.
The second final will be the Rocket League Final at 15:15 BST. The Dr. Buhmann Akademie H Rocket League team will face Amsterdam Carball Esports (from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands) in a best-of-seven format.
The Valorant Final will take place from 17:00 BST and will conclude the day and the competition. Teams ‘Winx Club’ (Bursa Uludag University – Turkey) and ‘Goettlike’ (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen – Germany) will face each other in a Best of 5.
In the international broadcast, viewers will be guided through the finals by Maxwell ‘BlackBloxer’ Calvert and Jack ‘Middlecott’ Davies for the League of Legends final. The Rocket League finals will be presented by Kieran ‘Kairo’ Tulloch and Harry ‘Hazza’ Chapman. Kairo and Hazza will then be joined by Harry ‘Docda’ Evans to cast the Valorant final. The host for the event will be Stanley ‘Greyhart’ Barker.
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The full finals can be viewed on the competition’s official Twitch channel (twitch.tv/uemasters), with English-language narration. In addition, a number of partners across Europe will be broadcasting in their local languages.
Amazon University Esports is a project present in 21 countries on four continents – it acts as a tournament but also includes workshops to help students learn more about the esports industry.
This program also gives students the chance to get their first paid work experience in areas such as broadcasting, event planning, marketing and community management.
Amazon University Esports UK & Ireland is made possible thanks to the support of top-level publishers and brands such as Riot Games and HP Omen.
University Esports Masters LAN finals tickets can be obtained via this link.
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.
