Red Bull Campus Clutch, the global student Valorant tournament, has returned this year for its third season.
An open tournament for college and university students across the world, participants team up, represent their campus, and fight for the opportunity to compete on the world stage.
This season, from November 19th to 24th, the final event will take place offline at the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, which hosted Valorant Champions 2022 where Loud clinched the title of VCT World Champion.
Since 2021, Red Bull Campus Clutch has hosted over 800 tournaments, with 25,000 participants in the first season and 30,000 in the second.
Red Bull Campus Clutch UK qualifier details
Update (September 5th 2023): Registrations are now open for UK student squads seeking the chance to represent their campus and fight for the opportunity to compete on the world stage. The tournament gives a chance to UK students dreaming of playing esports competitively,an opportunity to showcase their abilities on the global stage, potentially getting scouted to play for professional esports teams.
UK qualifiers will take place online over two days on Saturday October 14th and Saturday October 21st. The best four teams from each qualifier will then compete offline in the UK Final at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London across two days on November 4-5th. The UK Finals will be live-streamed via Twitch on The Goose House channel.
Last year, UK student Valorant team Casa Noturna won the Red Bull Campus Clutch 2022 UK Finals. Now UK student teams will be fighting it out to follow in their footsteps. This season, the winning team of the UK final will receive an all-expenses covered invitation to the Red Bull Campus Clutch World Final, a LAN tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey, where they will represent their country and fight to be crowned Red Bull Campus Clutch World Champions.
UK teams can register on the Red Bull Campus Clutch website.
More Red Bull Campus Clutch 2023 info
2023 will see more action, with over 200 regional events across four months. Each team of five will progress through Local Qualifiers, with the top teams making their way to their respective National Final. Here, the country’s top student teams will go head to head, with the winners named Red Bull Campus Clutch National Final Winners, earning a chance to represent their country in the World Final.
For many of the teams, the event will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in a live professional setting. The winning team will also receive a €20,000 prize.
In 2021 standout squads like eventual champions Team Egypt surprised everyone by putting themselves and their entire region on the Valorant map despite having no experience on the global stage prior to Red Bull Campus Clutch. A strong showing from Mohamed ‘shalaby’ Shalaby even saw him go on to sign with pro esports team Team Vitality.
By early November 2023, the next top student Valorant teams from around the world will be confirmed. From there, each team will receive an all-expenses paid invite to the Red Bull Campus Clutch World Final, a LAN tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey, that will decide who becomes the Red Bull Campus Clutch World Champions.
And in 2022, with the World Final taking place in the Estádio do Pacaembu, Sao Paulo, Brazil, it was Team USA that took the final victory. However, the tournament ran deep, and Indonesian talent, Oliver Budi ‘m0rea’ Wangge, has been making waves since his performance there, having recently won a gold medal at the South East Asian Games 2023.
Three outstanding partners are supporting Red Bull Campus Clutch this season, helping to bring the latest and greatest hardware to competitors with Intel NUC, AGON by AOC and Backforce all returning to the tournament for 2023.
Registrations are now open for 2023 – sign-ups are available on the Red Bull Campus Clutch website.
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.
