For transparency: Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco used to work full-time for British Esports between September 2016 and February 2021, and currently does some freelance work for them, producing their weekly email newsletter
Some of the UK’s best collegiate esports teams will gather in Nottingham this weekend to compete in the British Esports Student Champs Grand Finals 2024 LAN.
When, where, tickets and other key info
The event will take place at Confetti X on July 6th and 7th 2024, from 10.30am to around 6pm BST each day. The venue consists of a 100-seater 4,000sq ft esports stage and content studio, and is home to the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, which is a part of Nottingham Trent University.
Teams of students aged 12+ will compete in League of Legends, Valorant, Rocket League and Overwatch 2. They’ve been competing in the Student Champs 23/24 season, and the leading team from the North Division will face-off against the top South Division side in each game.
Teams have also had access to British Esports’ National Esports Performance Campus in Sunderland. Teams will take part in bootcamp sessions to practise in person ahead of the big day, complemented by dedicated sessions for media and content creation.
There will also be audience showmatches on both days.
The schedule is as follows:
The finals will be broadcast on the British Esports Twitch channel, and tickets for the in-person event can be booked from the Student Champs 2024 finals Eventbrite page.
Who are the teams at the British Esports Student Champs 2024 finals?
We’ll list team names and rosters below (including any subs and coaches).
Valorant (team pics to follow)
North: Burnley College – Burnley FC Esports Academy Bees
- HelloThere
- K4rnoss
- T0BA
- Nadz
- Choncc
- Dan
The bees have a player (T0BA) also competing in the UK and Nordics Valorant Challengers North Polaris league. They will face:
South: CONEL – CONEL Cyphers VAL
- DanDan
- Radar
- quorn
- Carti
- Kuni
- Quaye
League of Legends
South: CONEL – CONEL Cyphers LoL
- KUGAR
- PAWLAK
- Alboz
- berb manny
- CHXNKS
- Toriable
North: Belfast Met College – LOL Belfast Met Buffalos
- S2a
- Austie
- Remmymoo
- Opiq
- Halifax Card
- Kensa
- JesusChrist
- Gregmerdinger
Belfast Met also have streamer RezoneGames as an esports lecturer:
Overwatch 2
North: Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies – Confetti Arrows Overwatch
Some of the players that started out in the Women in Esports 22/23 Overwatch Cup and have now progressed to the national team, making it all the way to the finals. The roster, including subs, is:
- Nymphia
- weather
- Kolapip
- Lemon
- JoeyNutria
- Garc
- toasty
South: Exeter College – Odyssey.exe
- DManJohns
- Clique
- Say
- Alzirr
- Nightfall
- HicCup
Rocket League
North: Newcastle College – NCL Vikings
- BURKEYY 7
- dom
- Calamity
- princessgalaxi
South: Exeter College – Eagles.exe
- Dathokami!
- Nuqqet
- JFC
Nuqqet is a key player for Exeter. He was controversially banned from the RLCS for throwing a match.
Casters at the Student Champs finals
There’s a variety of talent taking part, from Craftman to BlackBloxer, Craftman to Conny, and more. See below:
We’ll be at the finals this event to report on the winners and do some interviews with British Esports.
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.
