K10 win first UKIC LAN: ‘What an amazing event – history you can’t buy’
Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Last Updated: 18/06/2025
UK esports organisation K10 won the very first Counter-Strike UK & Ireland Circuit (UKIC) LAN event on the weekend.
They turned around a 1-0 deficit in the League Season 0 grand final against Verdant to win 2-1 at the Endpoint HQ in Sheffield.
K10 were one of four teams in the LAN. They started off with a 2-0 win over DuckDuckGoose, before falling to Verdant 2-0 in the upper bracket final.
They fought back with a 2-1 win over DuckDuckGoose to set up a rematch with Verdant, and sought revenge in the final.
This is what winning looks like 📸
— UK & Ireland Circuit (@UKICircuit) December 10, 2023
This is what winning sounds like 🔊
This is what winning feels like @K10_GG 🏆 pic.twitter.com/UiHkHVp6Ui
Viperio, who recently won a pitch investment competition, saw their CS team lose their two matches to K10 and DuckDuckGoose, but they put in a good fight, and came close to winning some maps.
The UKIC – which is run by UK esports organisation Endpoint – announced UKIC Season 0 recently, following the news of the first UK & Ireland Circuit CS LAN event towards the start of the year.
Broadcast talent for the event included Zola, Retr00 and Dweg, and the whole affair was received well by the community.
UKIC organisers on Season 0 LAN and when the Season 1 LAN is planned for 2024
Endpoint co-owner Peter Thompson said it was an amazing event, and congratulated K10 on the win:
What a great event! Amazing job by the whole team behind the broadcast and players!
— Peter Thompson (@EndpointPete) December 10, 2023
Congrats to @K10_GG for being the first ever @UKICircuit LAN champions, that will be history you can’t buy 👊
Time for after party! #NeverStop pic.twitter.com/7vKjEi80fB
On the future of the UKIC, Peter Thompson added to Esports News UK: “Loose dates for UKIC Season 1 – it will be starting in January 2024 and the next LAN will be in March 2024.
“Need to figure out exactly how it looks though. The plan is to do four LANs next year but they will likely look quite a bit different to this one.”
‘An unreal event with insane support’ – K10 on the UKIC Season 0 LAN victory
Taz, the CEO of K10, said after the win: “Thank you guys, the effort and skill they have showcased during this entire week was amazing!
Taz also thanked his team, consisting of dox (UK), shyyne (Norway), Tree (UK), yz0 (UK) and Rezst (Netherlands).
He added: “I cannot thank the players enough, the effort to turn that around into a W, I have no words. It’s a big motivator for us all. Thanks to UKIC, Pete and the guys at Endpoint did an amazing job this weekend.
“We cannot wait to come back to the Pracrooms and hopefully pick up another trophy. Overall it was an amazing event. The production team and casters were amazing, and shoutout to our sponsors Tradeit, TCG and Fokus.”
There’s more from Taz here in this article with UKCSGO, where he said: “We want to make sure that we’re at the top flight of the UK scene. I think moving forward, securing more elements to our sponsorship. Also, increasing the overall capital of the company so we can do more: more bootcamps like this, at Endpoint, because I can’t stress enough how important a tool like Endpoint’s facility is. So we’ll aim to be here a lot more and, realistically, to sum it up, be bigger, be better and just keep grinding.”
K10 also reacted here:
The grind,
— K10 🇬🇧 (@K10_GG) December 12, 2023
the passion,
the determination.
This is what it takes to be a champion 👑#GOK10 pic.twitter.com/UNg0ZWfnpo
Few days late but finally alive and its sunk in that we've finally won a UKCS LAN
— fl0wz (@EthanFl0wZ) December 12, 2023
Might sound cringe but I've been dreaming of this for years, and to have it happen the way it did is absolutely incredible
1/🧵
WON THE @UKICircuit LAN WITH THE BOYSS!!! I fucking love my team ❤ Ggs to @Verdant_gg and huge thank you to @TeamEndpoint for making the event happen. I had an absolute blast pic.twitter.com/g78IH5m3Gq
— Jacob Hemming (@rezstcs) December 10, 2023
Won @UKICircuit, Rocky start for the team but so happy we had strong mental and learnt game to game. Ty for the unreal event and @K10_GG for the insane support and bootcamp before.
— Zy (@yz0aja) December 10, 2023
My goats @rezstcsgo @Tree__cs @shyyneCS @doxcsgo
🐐❤️#GOK10
WE HAVE FUCKING DONE IT WE'VE WON THE INAUGURAL @UKICircuit LAN FINALS 🥳🥳🥳🥳
— Tree60 (@Tree__cs) December 10, 2023
SOOOOO PROUD OF EVERY MAN ON THIS SQUAD EVERYONE STEPPED UP TO GET THIS VICTORY @rezstcsgo @yz0aja @doxcsgo @shyyneCS ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/fA87V1iiLx
😄
— dox (@rdoxyoung) December 10, 2023
GG @Verdant_gg, crazy games and insane turn around from us, proud of every one of you 🫡@yz0aja @shyyneCS @rezstcsgo @Tree__cs https://t.co/ughK4TgHYn
Great first tournament with the new org. Amazing way to end the year, ggs to alø my teammates you all played amazing @yz0aja @doxcsgo @Tree__cs @rezstcsgo and thanks to @K10_GG for giving us the oppertunity https://t.co/HyUsXwZ8kw pic.twitter.com/5PqX8EIOZ1
— shyyne (@shyyneCS) December 10, 2023
Credit must also be given to Verdant of course, for coming so close to winning.
Their Season 0 LAN roster consisted of arTisT (Ireland), Giraffe (UK), Extinct (Ireland), Wolfie (UK) and Ducky (UK).
Wolfie also said it’s the best LAN he’s been to ‘by far’.
We fall to @K10_GG who were the better team come the Grand Final.
— Verdant (@VerdantEC) December 10, 2023
GGs to K10 and their roster who take the trophy in the first season of @UKICircuit.#ThriveByNature🌿 pic.twitter.com/D0RqCRAhyA
Need to add, an amazing event held by @TeamEndpoint and the endpoint family, best lan I’ve ever been to by far, thanks for being the best host <3
— Andrew (@XpWolfie) December 10, 2023
We may not have taken the @UKICircuit trophy at the weekend, but we did plant over 100 trees!#ThriveByNature🌿 pic.twitter.com/kKIpASBZyZ
— Verdant (@VerdantEC) December 14, 2023
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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. 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 also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.
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