Forget Worlds – the NLC Aurora Cup 2024 is getting underway today for the UK, Ireland and Nordics region.
It will feature a fearless draft and consist of a swiss stage and a playoffs stage. Matches are best-of-one, with qualification/elimination matches best-of-three and playoff matches best-of-five.
This year, extra teams were able to apply to take part.
Round one of the NLC Aurora Cup 2024 Swiss stage gets underway today (October 1st 2024 from 6pm CEST), and the grand final takes place on November 12th. There are more dates in NLC’s Aurora Cup guide on Twitter.
The latest esports cup tournament comes following Venomcrest’s win over fellow UK org Ruddy in the NLC Division 1 finals, Rich Gang’s promotion to NLC Division 1 for 2025 and The Ruddy Brods UKEL Sunshine Showdown win.
Last year, UK esports organisation Verdant won the NLC Aurora Cup 2023 after beating fellow UK org Fourth Wall 3-0.
NLC Aurora Cup 2024 teams
The event features the following 16 teams:
- 6AM (wildcard/applied team)
- Bitfix Gaming (National League invited team)
- Brod & Friends (wildcard/applied team)
- DMG Esports (Div 1 team)
- Dusty (National League invited team)
- Epic Avalanche (National League invited team)
- Int Esports (wildcard/applied team)
- Lundqvist Lightside (Div 1 team)
- Nativz (Div 1 team)
- Nord Esports (Div 1 team)
- Paragon (National League invited team)
- Regem (National League invited team)
- Rich Gang (Div 1 team)
- Ruddy Esports (Div 1 team)
- Venomcrest Esports (Div 1 team)
- Verdant (Div 1 team)
NLC Aurora Cup 2024 day one match-ups
- Nativz vs Brod & Friends
- Nord Esports vs Regem
- Ruddy Esports vs Int Esports
- Venomcrest vs Paragon
- Lundqvist Lightside vs Epic Avalanche
- Rich Gang vs 6AM
- DMG Esports vs Bitfix Gaming
- Verdant vs Dusty
Lodestar are also running a joint sustainability project with Verdant, with donations raised towards the Ecologi fund.
The news comes after Verdant planted over 200 trees after winning Epic 42 in CS2.
NLC Aurora Cup 2024 co-streamers
The co-streamers are:
- Jreal
- Lundqvist Lightside
- Brod & Friends
- Tebz188
- BrackishBrit
- Karvis
- Archarom
- Volt
- Zathdos
- Zzleeper
- Aqsept
- Team CD
- Lodestar Esports (featuring casters Luna, Sovonix and BigNoseMike)
NLC Aurora Cup 2024 rosters & announcements
Ruddy Esports
- Top: Built
- Jungle: Malice
- Mid: Raqo
- Bot: Nata
- Support: Alaric
- Substitute: Seb
- Head coach: DonJake
Venomcrest
- Top: Buchi
- Jungle: Oleg
- Mid: Painful
- Bot: RustySniper
- Support: Gordinho
- Owner: Ace
- Manager: uko
- Manager: Blazzios
- Coach: Zealot
Verdant
- Top: Pr1me
- Jungle: Noodle
- Mid: Roison
- Bot: Neramin
- Support: FGG
- Substitute: Tofu
- Substitute: Beartree
- Manager: NDanskmand
- Coach: Fykling
Rich Gang
- Top: Chaos
- Jungle: Slice
- Mid: Rotthue
- Bot: Mirrai
- Support: Snoken
- Substitute: Citron
- Owner: Thoug
- Manager: Envy
- Coach: Zealous
- Assistant Coach: Tomorrr
Lundqvist Lightside
- Top: WNTR
- Jungle: BAASHH
- Mid: Harbo
- Bot: Hattor1s
- Support: HAOSWEN
- Substitute: ZwiZell
- Coach: Ted Guru
- Owner: Jakke13
- Manager: Khalil10100
- Coach: rico
Nord Esports
- Top: Hespo
- Jungle: Skude
- Mid: Hunt
- Bot: AKLASS
- Support: Velocity
- Substitute: Draco
- Substitute: Viggo
- Owner: Peña
- Coach: Hackali
- Assistant Coach: Eupho
- Assistant Coach: ChaoZ
Regem
- Top: RAIDER
- Jungle: SCOFIELD
- Mid: FIERCE
- Bot: LINDGARDE
- Support: SIMPY
- Substitute: SirVicta
- Substitute: Cast
- Substitute: Furby
- Substitute: Khang
- Substitute: Blaffor
- Owner and manager: Hufo
- Coach: ANONPSYCKO
Brod & Friends
- Top: Akkers
- Jungle: Trizzy
- Mid: Ketsuo
- Bot: Syn
- Support: Jamsu
- Substitute and owner: Gov
- Substitute: Krisyss
- Substitute and owner: Gnemly
- Substitute: Spark
- Substitute: Zeta
- Coach: Middlecott
- Assistant Coach: Whitey
6AM
- Top: Early Bird
- Jungle: Chrislai
- Mid: Shiro
- Bot: Caltys
- Support: Snabi
- Sub: Monk
- Manager and coach: Veteran
Bitfix Gaming
- Top: NGB
- Jungle: Urban
- Mid: FENZ1
- Bot: Chrisberg
- Support: Lorenz
- Substitute: BrannMolvik
- Substitute: Energy
- Substitute: Matthieu
- Manager: Skipper117h
- Coach: DanHolt
- Owner: gero9mo
DMG
- Top: Menninkäine
- Jungle: Bitse
- Mid: Skaterot
- Bot: Namex
- Support: Zuko
- Substitute: Lifetime
- Substitute: Boundless
- Substitute: Samme
- Substitute: Xero
- Substitute: Don Ponk
- Owner: Devils
- Manager: Pride
- Owner: Doctor
Dusty
- Top: Seifur
- Jungle: Sosa
- Mid: Legions
- Bot: Hoiz
- Support: Zarzator
- Substitute: Theodor
- Substitute: Lagiah
- Substitute: Mikmer
- Substitute: Kristut
- Substitute: PederseNN
Epic Avalanche
- Top: Karwox
- Jungle: Rauhantuomari
- Mid: Merza
- Bot: VL
- Support: Eru
- Substitute: Petoska
- Substitute: Dibu
- Substitute: TOOFIN
- Coach: sNikke
Int Esports
- Top: Kobben
- Jungle: Nord
- Mid: Forslund
- Bot: Omni
- Support: NoDu
- Substitute: Baul
- Substitute: Guvez
Nativz
- Top: Archfiend
- Jungle: Hybradge
- Mid: D1verse
- Bot: MKR
- Support: LéoLeCargo
- Substitute: Reclamation
- Substitute: Orion
- Manager: Reclamation
- Coach: Orion
- Assistant Coach: SethHS
- Owner: N/A
Paragon
- Top: Kenji
- Jungle: Snepex
- Mid: Timatopr
- Bot: Lasped
- Support: Sack
- Substitute: maru
- Substitute: Oceancroc
- Owner: themac
- Coach: Rob
The NLC Aurora Cup 2024 starts from 6pm CEST on October 1st.
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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.
