The UK Esports Team Committee (UKETC) has made changes to its members over the last few days, with one removal and three additions.
Firstly, London-based Guild Esports have been removed from the UKETC due to a ‘lack of involvement and commitment from Guild during the past 12 months’, with the org failing to attend meetings.
The news comes after it was announced that investment firm DCB Sports is set to acquire Guild Esports.
The UKETC was formed in 2021 ‘to help progress and grow the UK esports industry to become more globally recognised’.
Guild were one of the first orgs to be added to the UK Esports Team Committee in 2022.
Secondly, UK esports organisation Noctem said they were delighted to be added to the UKETC.
“We’ve been working with the committee to help push the UK esports scene forward,” they said in the below tweet. “There’s lots of work going on behind the scenes, and we’re super excited for the future of UK esports.”
Thirdly, eco-conscious UK esports organisation Verdant said they’re proud to join the UK Esports Team Committee as well.
“We’re honoured to have the opportunity to provide a voice for grassroots esports organisations within the committee,” Verdant said.
“Representing us in the committee will be our Managing Director Sami Cunningham.”
The news comes after Verdant recently won the Epic 42 Counter-Strike 2 LAN tournament and planted more than 200 trees to celebrate.
And last but not least, Williams Esports has joined the UKETC:
The UK Esports Team Committee (UKETC) says it acts as a collective voice of UK teams in wider industry discussions, representing their views and interests to the wider UK esports and video games industries and to Government, and to encourage professionalism within UK esports.
Resolve COO Jeff Simpkins is chair of the UKETC.
The current list of 12 organisations in the UKETC are Noctem, Method, GiantX, Futwiz, Resolve, Endpoint, Williams Esports, Verdant, Fnatic, Into the Breach, Wolves and Man City Esports.
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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.
