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Interview with BT Excel’s UK bot-laner Deadly on his expectations for EU Masters: “I think we have a very good team set up; I’ve been to the finals already and if I don’t reach the finals again, I feel like I’ve somewhat failed myself”
Interview conducted before BT Excel won the quarter-finals Excel Esports academy team BT Excel, the sole UK representatives […]
April 27, 2021
MSI & VCT Masters interview with Ásbjörn Ásbjörnsson from the Icelandic Esports Association: “These are the biggest events Iceland has ever held, period. And we’ve had artists like Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran playing here in the last few years!”
Image credit: Dusty The League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) and Valorant Championship Tour (VCT) Masters Stage 2 […]
April 26, 2021
Interview with James ‘Stress’ O’Leary on leaving Mad Lions, his time casting and inclusion in esports: ‘It’d be a massive thing for an LEC player to be openly LGBTQA+, but with that comes a lot of pressure they’d put on themselves’
Image credit: StressCasts.com Stress is a familiar name to those who followed the EU LCS before it became […]
April 15, 2021
‘The crossover no one expected’ – UK streamer Bizzleberry duo queues with Ninja in League of Legends
UK League of Legends streamer Bizzleberry has teamed up with none other than global streaming star Ninja. One […]
April 14, 2021
EU Masters Spring 2021 talent line-up announced with mostly UK & Ireland casters: Medic, Caedrel, Foxdrop, Munchables, Jamada and many more join the broadcast team
The UK and Ireland have been blessed with a range of top esports broadcast talent over the years […]
April 14, 2021
MAD Lions’ LEC win ‘marks the end of the dominance of G2 and Fnatic in the LEC, with competition becoming increasingly fiercer each year’ – Riot
Image credit: LEC Flickr (Michal Konkol/Riot Games) Riot Games has commented on MAD Lions winning the Spring 2021 […]
April 12, 2021
Newsflash: MAD win LEC, Fnatic Valorant team changes, NFTs in esports, Endpoint academy roster, Uni of Birmingham PVP game wins dev challenge, UK Twitch streamer unbanned 2 years after false ban
Here’s our latest weekly Newsflash roundup, where we cover a host of esports and gaming news in an […]
April 11, 2021
Student Proving Grounds UK orgs announced: The path to pro has never been so bright for UK League of Legends talent
UPDATE (May 1st 2021): London Esports’ students have won the UK League of Legends Student Proving Grounds tournament. […]
April 9, 2021
Cloud9 sign the other Perkz, a school teacher from Leicester also known as Emily Perkins
What is probably the most wholesome case of mistaken identity in League of Legends has taken another surprising […]
April 6, 2021
Pentakill is back! League of Legends virtual band to perform new Pentakill song at Mid-Season Showdown, Riot announces first guitar partner, Pentakill 3 on the way?
Riot Games’ virtual rock group Pentakill are returning after a four-year hiatus, with a new song being shown […]
April 6, 2021Riot ‘looking into potential improvements’ for EU Masters Play-Ins following criticism around the format and lack of an English broadcast
Article by Megalodontus and Dom Sacco Riot Games says it’s working to improve the set up around the […]
April 2, 2021
UK League of Legends university ‘team’ exposed as AI bots
For anyone who has played League of Legends or DOTA then you may have been accused of being a ‘bot’. After a misplay or a fat finger or throwing an ultimate in the wrong direction can lead to wild accusations. You brush it aside and continue about your human business. Unfortunately this week, those accusations held a grain of truth. […]
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April 1, 2021
Spain’s Spring 2021 League of Legends Superliga achieves highest viewer numbers in the tournament’s history
The League of Legends Superliga, the official Riot Games competition organized by LVP (Mediapro Group) in Spain, closed […]
March 31, 2021
Maizy Marzipan on becoming a Twitch Partner and streaming goals: ‘There aren’t a huge amount of women in the TFT competitive scene – and certainly not many Scottish people – so I’d like to showcase that we can compete!’
Scottish Teamfight Tactics (TFT) streamer and cosplayer Maizy Marzipan has told Esports News UK she is ‘beyond hyped’ […]
March 28, 2021
MNM’s relegation to UKLC raises questions around academy teams in UK League of Legends
UPDATE (March 26th 2021): MNM Gaming have decided to give up their academy team slot rather than sell […]
March 25, 2021