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The three teams have been confirmed for the first 2025 NLC Winter LAN event in the UK, taking place next weekend.
Bulldog Esports defeated fellow UK esports organisation Verdant 3-1 in the lower bracket semi-final yesterday, securing their spot at Nottingham.
Bulldog will now face Nord Esports in the NLC Winter 2025 lower bracket final, taking place on Saturday March 1st.
The winner of this will face Los Ratones in the grand final on Sunday March 2nd.
The finals weekend will take place from 10am to 4pm GMT each day at Nottingham’s Confetti X broadcast facility (pictured above), which is part of Nottingham Trent University. The finals at the 100-seat venue sold out fast, but there is also a separate NLC and LEC watch party featuring Los Ratones/team meet and greets happening at The Nest, Nottingham, NG2 3HU, from 10am to 11pm GMT on the Sunday.
Get tickets to the NLC and LEC Winter finals watch party here
Reaching the finals is a great achievement for Bulldog Esports. They had a brilliant run in the lower bracket, with Bulldog eliminating The Ruddy Sack from the NLC Winter playoffs, leading to lots of content and reaction from Ruddy players and management.
Nord and Los Ratones reaching the finals weekend is less of a surprise, given their big-name rosters.
Nord have Vizicsacsi, Santorin, NoWay, xMatty and Treatz, plus head coach Just Jon and team manager Rydona.
Los Ratones have Thebausffs, Velja, Nemesis, Crownie, Rekkles, with coach/manager Caedrel.
And Bulldog have Mietek, Lulas, Kaymin, Exofeng and Kasing. They also recently made an addition to their coaching staff in Żuraw.
Bulldog jungler Lulas said after the win: “I haven’t played a LAN in a long time, in a lot of years, so that’s going to be a pleasant experience, in a different country as well. I’m hyped, I have no idea how it’ll be but we’re here for it. I don’t think anyone expected us to be there from the start of the split, probably not even us.
“But we put in the work, everyone is really humble on this team, we knew what we were building and we got the right names and mentality and support. I need to shoutout the additions we got to the coaching staff, it’s been night and day since the beginning. Bringing in someone to scold us when we’re doing mistakes, getting lost on the map or being stupid, I just saw our mid-laner is tenth place in terms of CS, what is this! We’ll get better, we’ll get there.”
Bulldog founder and CEO, Newts, added:
Stay tuned with Esports News UK for plenty of coverage from the NLC Winter finals in Nottingham next weekend, including interviews, live tweeting, social posts, videos and articles.
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.
