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UK university esports body NSE (National Student Esports) has announced a new esports and gaming event – Unidays Lvl Up Live – will host its championship finals this month.
Manchester’s Depot Mayfield (M1 2QF) will host the British University Esports Championship (BUEC) Finals on the weekend of March 29th and 30th 2025, from 11am to 6pm.
The new student gaming and esports festival is supported by headline partner, Unidays.
The event will host several BUEC university esports finals, including Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, Overwatch 2, Valorant and Valorant women & non-binary tournaments.
The Depot venue is located at Manchester’s historic former railway Mayfield, and is part of a £1bn regeneration project.
The Unidays Lvl Up Live event will also feature five levels of gaming experiences: The maze, arcade, reflex, consumables, AFK with Voxi, and the NSE zone.
These will consist of a giant maze, retro gaming area, simulator zone, food area with Goodfella’s, board game area and the NSE finals, plus games and freebies from Pringles, Monster Energy, Pot Noodle and Adobe.
Tickets to the event are free, with Unidays members able to bring a plus one.
The news comes after the Winter 2024 BUEC winners were announced, and NSE announced partnerships with Pot Noodle and Pringles, plus a Warzone University Invitational.
Warwick University were back-to-back winners in Overwatch in the Winter season, and remain top of the overall university esports standings so far.
NSE’s 2025 spring season of the British University Esports Championship launched on February 2nd.
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.
