Starting today, gamers from across the UK will have the opportunity to win an esports training workshop as part of the Red Bull Raise Your Game campaign.
The workshop will be with with professional gamers and Red Bull Players Liam ‘Jukeyz‘ James (UK, Call of Duty Warzone), Jaden ‘Wolfiez‘ Ashman (UK, Fortnite) and Adel ‘Big Bird’ Anouche (Algeria & UAE, Street Fighter).
Entrants will have the opportunity to enhance their in-game skills by training and playing with the Red Bull Players at London’s Red Bull Gaming Sphere in Shoreditch.
At the Red Bull Raise Your Game workshop, winners will have the chance to be mentored by the aforementioned pro players. Alongside their in-game coaching, industry professionals will also be on hand to offer other training and mental activities.
To enter, aspiring gamers will select their preferred coach out of the three Red Bull Players and share what their gaming goal is and how they want to improve. From there, the pros will each select three of their favourite entries.
The winners and their selected +1s will be invited to the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London for the workshop day.
Participants will be able to select from Wolfiez’, the youngest ever player to get $1,000,000 in prize money or Jukeyz, widely regarded as one of the best Call of Duty: Warzone players in the world, who is about to compete in the World Series of Warzone London event. Also on offer is Street Fighter star Big Bird, winner of Red Bull Kumite 2023.
The first 3,000 entrants can also claim a free limited edition Red Bull four-pack online, featuring the Red Bull cartoon design, this time set in the Red Bull Gaming Sphere.
The initiative comes one day after a similar training programme was announced, with Excel Esports and EE launching the women’s esports Power Up Programme.
Red Bull Raise Your Game includes Fortnite map modelled after London’s Red Bull Gaming Sphere
Fortnite players can play an exclusive in-game map modelled after the Red Bull Gaming Sphere to explore and engage with the facility.
Red Bull Raise Your Game is part of Red Bull UK’s ongoing initiative to establish the Red Bull Gaming Sphere as the home of UK gaming. As part of this, the Red Bull Campus Clutch 2023 UK Finals will be held on November 4th and 5th at the Gaming Sphere, to decide the top UK student Valorant team. The finals will be broadcast on Red Bull’s Twitch and YouTube channels.
To participate in Red Bull Raise Your Game, entrants over the age of 18 can visit the link below and complete their entry by October 31st 2023 11.59pm GMT. Winners will be selected on November 15th.
Entrants can participate by visiting redbull.co.uk/raiseyourgame, and exploring the Red Bull Gaming Sphere through a new virtual tour.
Red Bull Raise Your Game Open Days invite public to Gaming Sphere
To celebrate the launch of Red Bull Raise Your Game, London’s Red Bull Gaming Sphere has opened its doors to the public.
Guests are welcome to see new game launches, compete in-mini tournaments and win prizes every Monday throughout September and October.
London’s premier esports studio is usually open for invite-only events but this is the community’s opportunity to just turn up and play a variety of titles, including the likes of FIFA 23, Valorant, League of Legends, Street Fighter 6, EA FC 24 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.
