Marvel Rivals esports tournaments are starting to crop up in the UK, at a grassroots level, following the game’s popular launch period.
UK gaming bars SideQuest and Meltdown have been running community tournaments in the hero shooter.
Meltdown has been running a 3v3 competition tonight (Saturday November 11th 2025) in London, and says it may move to a 6v6 format in the future.
The tournament is for players of all levels, who are welcome to bring their own equipment, and entry is free to the single elimination bracket.
SideQuest is also running Marvel Rivals esports tournaments in its Charing Cross, Elephant Park, Coventry and Canterbury venues on Sunday February 9th from 11am GMT.
It costs £15 to enter, and those entering without a team can be grouped into one via the SideQuest Discord, using the information and links in the tweet below.
Esports News UK has reached out to other tournament organisers in the UK to see if they will be running tournaments, including collegiate organisers NSE and NUEL. We’ll update this article if we hear back.
Update: Epic 44 will contain a Marvel Rivals 2v2 tournament.
Update: NSE has added Marvel Rivals to its main British University Esports Championship (BUEC) as Spring 2025 sign-ups open.
This will run with a four-week swiss stage and two-week playoffs stage, and includes £600 in prizing for university students.
It’s a slightly shorter season than some of NSE’s other titles, like League of Legends and Valorant, but it’s a nod to Marvel Rivals’ growing success, nevertheless.
There’s more info on the Marvel Rivals NSE Spring 2025 tournament for university students in this link, and below.
Update: Vulpine Esports have announced a Marvel Rivals tournament starting March 1st 2025.
The news comes after a hugely successful launch period for Marvel Rivals, which launched in early December and has gone on to become a top ten game on Steam, with 10m playing around launch, and 600,000 concurrent players this weekend alone.
UK player finishes strongly in Marvel Rivals esports Championship Season 0
UK Marvel Rivals esports player iGoodlad finished runner-up with Yoinkanda, who reached the final of the European Marvel Rivals Championship Season 0: Dooms’ Rise tournament on PC, which ran from December 14th 2024 to January 5th 2025.
TeamCats won the final 4-0.
iGoodlad appears to be a former Paladins esports player, who previously played with EU team Yoinkers.
Other UK players in the $14,500 tournament included Abbs on Aww Yeah, Lightbringer on Schmungus, Ashh on Ex Oblivione, Dylon and Fate on Team1, ImTryinOk, Soldio and J7nx on WeAreGroot, plus Tommy on Peaq Check and LGCY on The Avengers, according to Liquipedia.
Marvel Rivals announces Battle Pass costume details for Season 1: Eternal Night Falls
Marvel Games and NetEase Games have announced new Battle Pass costume details for Season 1: Eternal Night Falls for Marvel Rivals.
The game’s first season began yesterday (January 10th) and introduces the Fantastic Four as playable heroes. Players will also discover a new Battle Pass, which features over double the content of the Season 0 pass.
The Eternal Night Fall Luxury Battle Pass has 10 costumes and their related content such as sprays and emotes. The price for the Season 1 Luxury Battle Pass is set at 990 Lattice and players will receive 600 Lattice and 600 Units back by completing it.
Additionally, the game has also launched on Nvidia GeForce Now, Nvidia’s cloud gaming service.
There’s the maps Sanctum Sanctorum and Midtown Map, plus a trailer for the Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic on Marvel Rivals channels.
Fans who play Marvel Rivals for 15 minutes while having Discord open will also receive the limited-time Discord Jeff the Land Shark avatar decoration! This special event will run until January 16th at 4:59pm PST.
Season 1 will see several balance updates, including enhancements to Storm.
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.
