Students from several UK and Ireland universities have reached the University Esports Masters 2024 playoffs, and will face other top unis from across Europe.
Students from the UK’s University of Roehampton, Nottingham Trent University and Staffordshire University, and Ireland’s Technological University Dublin, will fight to qualify for the Grand Final and become champions of the University Esports Masters (UE Masters).
After demonstrating a high level in the previous qualifiers, the universities will have multiple teams participating in the UE Masters Playoffs.
Two teams from the University of Roehampton will seek victory in the Rocket League Playoffs this weekend, as will one from Technological University Dublin.
Roehampton Esports Black will face current title holders Dr Buhmann Akademie (who won the 2023 UEM finals in Nottingham last year), and Roehampton TLR will play against Ireland’s TUD Vertigo from Technological University Dublin.
Also, students from Nottingham Trent University, Staffordshire University and Technological University Dublin will compete in the Valorant Playoffs in the coming weeks.
Staffs will play TU Dublin and Nottingham Trent will compete against Sorbonne University.
The playoffs will be played on May 11th and 12th (Rocket League) and May 25th and 26th (Valorant).
The universities representing Ireland at the University Esports Masters are the teams that won their respective games at the Ireland Esports Collegiate 2024 Spring Finals, including League of Legends, Valorant and Rocket League. However, only teams from Valorant and Rocket League qualified to the playoffs.
In addition to the players from the UK and Ireland, opponents representing Croatia, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands will also take part. The matches can be followed on the competition’s official Twitch channel at twitch.tv/uemasters.
The 2023/24 edition of the UE Masters, which will distribute a total prize pool of €14,000, has counted with the participation of university teams from 17 European countries and the support of Riot Games, one of the world’s leading video game developers (publishers).
University Esports Masters is a video game competition integrated within University Esports, a global esports, gaming and technology project that is present in 26 countries on four continents and claims to have the participation of more than 100,000 students.
The main objectives of the tournament are ‘to create a sense of community among players from all over Europe, to give them the opportunity to compete in high quality international tournaments and to provide avenues for young people to develop a career within the esports world, as well as to find a place to learn and enhance their skills’
Europe’s University Esports Masters returned for 2024 with new open tournaments, Ukraine back in the tournament again and a €14,000 prize pool in an announcement earlier this year.
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.
