How to get featured in British Esports ‘Plays of the Week’

How to get featured in British Esports ‘Plays of the Week’

Adam McGowan
4 min read | 3 Feb 2020

For the current season of the British Esports Championships for schools and colleges, we are introducing the top plays of the week.

This is where we take your best in-game moments as a team or an individual and post across our YouTube and social media channels. For example:

Read on to find out how you can submit your weekly highlights to us so you can be featured on our next video. The best pieces of content will be shared via our following platforms:

Of course, you’re very welcome to share content on your own channels, we are happy to re-tweet and share where possible if you tag us on the above platforms.

League of Legends

For our Spring 2019/20 Championships season we’ve partnered up with StreamRecap to automatically capture your highlights each week. Players that want their matches highlighted must make sure to enable the “Allow spectators: All” setting in the game lobby.

League Of Legends

Alternatively, you are able to clip your highlights yourself and send through to the British Esports team at replays@britishesports.org. Please note that all videos must be sent across in an MP4 format to be submitted successfully. Watch our full tutorial on how to do this here:

Rocket League

Teams that want their match highlights must make sure to select the “Save Replay” option at the end of the game. Here are three helpful screenshots as well showing how to select it and ideal naming conventions:

Rocket League

Once the game is over, Rocket League players must upload those replays to the StreamRecap portal here for processing.

The “Match ID here” refers to the match ID on the Championships website.

On windows, replays can be found in this folder:

“Documents\My Games\Rocket League\TAGame\Demos”

The most recent replays will correspond to the games that were just played!

Watch our full walk-through on how to do this here:

Overwatch

Unfortunately, Overwatch does not have a built-in functionality to download highlights directly from the client. So, we have put together a short video to help you on how you’re able to get your highlights. Please note that all videos must be sent across in an MP4 format to be submitted successfully. You can watch this here:

Remember to submit your videos in an MP4 format through to replays@britishesports.org!

Find out other ways you’re able to get involved in content surrounding the British Esports Championships here.

Contact Us 

If you have any questions on how to get involved in the Plays of the Week or require further assistance to the steps listed above. Please reach out to us on champs@britishesports.org or alternatively, your school/college representative should have access to our Championships Discord server.

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