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Update (February 18th 2025): The Arozzi NLC has announced a special NLC and LEC Winter 2025 grand finals watch party in Nottingham.
The event will start with the Arozzi NLC Winter 2025 final, followed by the LEC Winter 2025 final.
It will also feature fun activities, a meet and greet with the NLC teams, and more. Given Los Ratones have already qualified for the grand final, guests will be able to meet Los Ratones’ star players (pending visas and availability on the day). These are Thebausffs, Velja, Nemesis, Crownie and Rekkles, plus manager Caedrel. Update: Velja likely won’t be there due to visa issues.
This event will take place at The Nest in Nottingham, NG2 3HU, on Sunday March 2nd 2025 from 10am to 11pm GMT.
Tickets for the NLC & LEC Winter 2025 grand finals watch party are now on sale. They are priced at £20 each, with car park tickets also priced at £5.
Ticket holders for the NLC Grand Final at Confetti X (see section below) will also have free access to this event.
The news comes as Esports News UK announces a year-long partnership with AGON by AOC for its NLC coverage in 2025.
Original article (published February 5th 2025): The Arozzi Northern League of Legends Championship will be hosting its first ever NLC Winter Finals LAN in the UK in March 2025.
The NLC, EMEA Regional League for the UK, Ireland, Nordics and Malta, has had a few viewing parties in the UK, courtesy of NLC team The Ruddy Sack, but this will be the league’s first final in the UK with the teams playing on a LAN setting.
And it’s the UK’s first ERL LAN event in six years following the UKLC and EU Masters finals of 2019.
There was a non-final Fourth Wall LAN match in 2023 too.
Nottingham’s Confetti X broadcast facility (pictured above), part of Nottingham Trent University, will be hosting the three teams competing in the finals. Its address is 15 Nile St, Nottingham NG1 1AT, UK.
While the venue only has 100 seats, there is also a watch party/celebration event happening too, in conjunction with the LEC (see top of the article).
The lower bracket final will take place on Saturday March 1st 2025 and the grand final on Sunday March 2nd). Both events will run from around 10am to 4pm GMT.
Now UK League of Legends fans have a new event to look forward to.
Tickets go on sale for the NLC Winter Finals LAN event on the NLC website, from 11am GMT on Sunday Feb 9th
In terms of the teams who will play in the finals, that’s still up in the air given the NLC Winter 2025 playoffs are still ongoing. But upper bracket teams are a fair bet – these include Los Ratones, Bulldog, Verdant and Nord.
The NLC is currently enjoying its most talked-about season thanks to some big-name teams and players being involved this time around.
UK League of Legends personality Caedrel formed an all-star Los Ratones team, who are taking part in the NLC’s biggest year yet, with Rekkles, Thebausffs and more, as are The Ruddy Sack with IWillDominate, Perkz, Jankos, YamatoCannon involved to name a few.
Other teams also have some impressive rosters, with Santorin, Treatz and xMatty on Nord, noname on Verdant and more. See the NLC Winter 2025 rosters here.
NLC broke viewership records by more than 1,000% during week one of the Winter 2025 season.
NLC Winter Finals LAN is latest in growing list of UK League of Legends esports events
The UK has had several UK League of Legends LAN events over the years, most regularly at Insomnia Gaming Festival, which is sadly no more after the company behind it went into liquidation last year.
Prior to the NLC, the UK had the official UKLC tournament series, which once hosted its live finals at Twickenham Stadium back in 2019. And Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre hosted a few EU Masters finals around that time too.
Excel Esports hosted a Neosurf Cup LAN at Twickenham in early 2020, just before Covid hit. And Epic.LAN used to host some League of Legends tournaments.
Confetti X has also held other esports events featuring League of Legends over the years, including the University Esports finals and the British Esports Student Champs finals. These came after NUEL partnered with Confetti over the £5m esports complex opening in 2022.
Outside of ERLs, the UK has been blessed with some top-tier League of Legends esports events recently too, namely MSI London 2023 and the 2024 Worlds finals at the O2.
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.
