It’s been a successful few days for several UK esports organisations, with Noctem, Into the Breach, Wolves and Quadrant qualifying for major events around the world.
Noctem Esports beat Falcons to qualify for biggest Call of Duty Challengers event, the CoD Challengers Finals
On July 7th 2024, Noctem Esports defeated Saudi Arabian powerhouse Team Falcons to qualify for The Call of Duty Challengers Championship.
These CoD Challengers Finals will be hosted by Optic Gaming at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center from July 18th to 21st 2024.
The Last Chance qualifiers for Europe happened on July 6th and 7th, with 11 teams battling it out to qualify for champs. With two spots up for grabs, Noctem X CR and ‘Houdini’ (a free agent team) will now join other European teams, OMiT EU, Clutch Rayn X WaR, Exceptional and FiveMediaClan, in two weeks’ time.
On Sunday, four teams were left – Noctem X CR, Houdini, Revived Gaming and Team Falcons. Noctem lost to Houdini in the winner’s final in a tense five-game thriller, before overcoming Team Falcons in a must win game, 3-2.
Noctem founder and CEO Jack Stovell said:
Last year, Noctem lost out in the finals of the LCQ. So going up against Team Falcons (who recently won the EU elite stage 3), Noctem were the underdogs heading into the match.
Two out of four of the Noctem x CR team (Detain and Niall), won the first UK CoD LAN in five years in March 2024. The other players are Aspekt and Twizz. It’s a core English team, with Twizz from France.
Detain is the current longest serving player of Noctem, having joined in March 2023 – playing alongside Peatie, Dqvee and Rezzy on the Noctem Black Roster.
Noctem said this is the latest in a series of recent successes for them. They recently started working with MSI, their women’s roster Noctem Violets won back-to-back European women’s league titles (and recently reached the final of the Sakura League Flower Division).
And Noctem have also announced their academy teams (Noctem Rising and Strix Rising) in preparation for the new Call of Duty title, Black Ops 6.
CoD Challengers Finals 2024 teams
These include Faze Clan Black, Omit Brooklyn, Houston Spartans, Lore Gaming, Omit EU, Clutch Rayn x WaR, Five Media Clan, Exceptional Gaming, Mindfreak, Thrive, Singapore Syndicate, Singapore Midnight, Houdini, 6F Carolina, Kaos Esports and Noctem x CR.
Various UK players are taking part the event.
Noctem’s first game will be against CR x WaR, featuring UK players like Bance and Harry and coach MarkyB.
Here are the list of rosters of the European teams:
Noctem X CR:
- Niall – England
- Detain – England
- Aspekt – England
- Twizz – France
- Un Joueur COD (Analyst) – France
Houdini:
- Dizzy – England
- Chunk – England
- Keza – England
- Twisted – England
- Ben Cary (Analyst) – England
OMiT EU:
- Mythix – Scotland
- Vortex – England
- Weeman – England
- Hicksy – England
- Roper (Coach) – England
- Aroma (Coach) – England
- Rayless (Analyst) – England
Exceptional Gaming:
- Henry – England
- Afro – England
- Pac – England
- Rafi – Bangladesh
Clutch Rayn X WaR:
- Bance – England
- Harry – England
- Denza – Belgium
- Cobra – France
- MarkyB (Coach) – Scotland
- Joshh (Coach) – England
- Synical (Analyst) – England
Five Media Clan:
- Renkor – Spain
- SupeR – Spain
- YaKo – Spain
- JurNii – Spain
- Guille (Manager) – Spain
- Sikotik (Coach) – Spain
Into the Breach and Quadrant qualify for HCS Atlanta Major 2024
More success stories in UK esports, as both Into the Breach and Quadrant will be playing in the next Halo Major.
The HCS Atlanta Major 2024 will take place from July 26th to 28th at the Gateway Center Arena, College Park.
Into the Breach won the recent Atlanta EU Qualifier against Bonten 3-1, with their roster of Jimbo (UK), TchiK (France), WuTum (Finland), zMightys (Netherlands) and coach Wonderboy (UK).
ITB join other teams at the 2024 Atlanta Major, including fellow UK esports organisation Quadrant, as well as others including Faze, Optic, Cloud9, Spacestation Gaming, Sentinels, Complexity, Shopify Rebellion and more.
Wolves and Into the Breach reach the Siege Esports World Cup
The Esports World Cup is of course taking place in Saudi Arabia right now, with T1 announced as the winners of the League of Legends tournament the other day.
Both Into the Breach and Wolves, two orgs from the UK, have just qualified for the Rainbow Six Siege Esports World Cup.
Wolves beat G2 and Into the Breach to qualify from the European Closed Qualifier, while Into the Breach beat Fnatic, lost to Wolves, then beat Team Secret in the third place decider, 2-1.
BDS also qualified after defeating Virtus Pro and Team Secret.
ITB’s Siege roster consists of Brits Azzr, Kendrew, Creedz and Oscr plus Swede NoaUrz.
Wolves’ is French players P4, Lasmooo, Mowwwgli and Asa, plus Swiss player DEADSHT.
The Esports World Cup Siege tournament will take place from July 31st to August 4th in Riyadh.
The full list of EWC Siege teams is:
- Faze Clan
- W7M Esports
- Team Liquid
- Furia
- DarkZero
- Luminosity
- Spacestation Gaming
- BDS
- Wolves
- Into the Breach
- Team Cruelty
- Bleed Esports
- PSG Talon
- Scarz
- Team Bliss
- Geekay 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.
