On June 5th 2024, College of Esports and Royal Holloway University will be hosting their first collaborative LAN event, known as the London Lock In.
This tournament-based event will feature a 5v5 showdown with six universities battling it out in both Overwatch 2 and Valorant. They include Imperial College London, King’s College London, University of Roehampton, London City University, College of Esports and Royal Holloway.
The event will take place from 10am to 9pm at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London, where matches will be broadcast online.
RHUL Esports, the gaming society of Royal Holloway University and one of the organisers of the event, are known in the top bracket of university leagues, like the NSE and NUEL/University Esports. The society is led by President Aaron Fugeman, with Esports Social and Events Secretary, Jeremy Sanchez Londono, alongside Esports Secretary, Dawood Ahmad.
Working alongside RHUL is the London Legion, the entirely student-led organisation within the College of Esports (which has UK League of Legends personality as a lecturer). Over the last two years, the students have run numerous large-scale productions, and have developed knowledge of industry-level broadcast equipment.
Under Competitive Director Louis Skilton‘s leadership, the team, including Executive Producer Finnlo Merry and Creative Director Jake Dorrian, have produced multiple broadcasts in partnership with the likes of FormulaE, SpecialEffect and the British Esports Student Champs.
London Legion will also have two of their competitive rosters playing in the tournament.
Tech brand AOC has supported the players by offering up ten of their AGON 27″ monitors – one to each winning player. The monitors feature an incredible 240Hz refresh rate and 0.5ms MPRT.
Free tickets will be released to the public from May 30th 2024 on a first-come-first-served basis.
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.
