British Esports Student Champs Live Finals Return For 2024 With Full List of Teams and Tickets Now Released

The UK’s top collegiate esports players will bootcamp at British Esports’ National Esports Performance Campus in Sunderland ahead of the main LAN event at Nottingham’s Confetti X in July.

Sunderland, Thursday 16th May 2024 – British Esports, the national body for esports in the United Kingdom, has announced the return of its climactic British Esports Student Champs Nationals Grand Finals live event for 2024.

This event will see the very best collegiate esports teams in the UK compete across a variety of games  – VALORANT, League of Legends, Overwatch 2 and Rocket League – in a LAN stage environment. 

It will take place at Confetti X in Nottingham on the weekend of July 6th and 7th 2024, from 9.30am to 7.30pm BST each day (times subject to change). Confetti X is a 100-seater 4,000 sqft multi-event esports venue and content studio, set in the heart of Nottingham at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies’s multi-site campus. Part of Nottingham Trent University, the venue has hosted the finals for the past couple of years.

Players aged 12+ have been competing since September 2023 in the British Esports Student Champs 23/24 season, and the finalists have now been confirmed. The leading team from the North Division and one from the South Division will face-off in each game.

Teams will also gain access to British Esports’ world-class National Esports Performance Campus in Sunderland. Teams will take part in bootcamp sessions to practise in person ahead of the big day, complemented by dedicated sessions for media and content creation.

Free tickets for the in-person British Esports Student Champs Finals ‘24 are now available for attendees to secure via the Eventbrite page.

The finals will also be broadcast live online via twitch.tv/britishesports.

Alice Whorley, Head of Operations at British Esports, said: “Each Champs year the passion, dedication, and competitiveness grows within the teams that compete in the Student Champs. To see the teams and talent develop over the course of the year has been truly memorable, and we cannot wait to see in July who will be crowned best in the nation.”

Joe Duckhouse, Chief Technology Officer at Confetti, said: ‘It’s a pleasure to welcome back the British Esports Federation team to Confetti X. This will be our fourth year hosting the Student Champs Finals, and our students will once again play an integral role in the delivery of a high-quality esports event and live broadcast.”

Full list of British Esports Student Champs 23-24 LAN Finalists

Valorant

North: Burnley College – Burnley FC Esports Academy BEES

South: CONEL – CONEL Cyphers VAL

League of Legends

North: Belfast Met College – LOL Belfast Met Buffalos

South: CONEL – CONEL Cyphers LoL

Overwatch 2

North: Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies – Confetti Arrows Overwatch

South: Exeter College – Odyssey.exe

Rocket League

North: Newcastle College – NCL Vikings

South: Exeter College – Eagles.exe

Get tickets for the 2024 British Esports Student Champs Finals here.

 

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Contacts

Mimi Craig | Marketing Manager | British Esports | mc@britishesports.org

Alice Whorley | Head of Operations | British Esports | aw@britishesports.org

About British Esports 

Established in 2016, British Esports is the national body for esports in the UK.  As one of the world’s leading esports authorities, we are the recognised member of the Global Esports Federation for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and founding member of the International Olympic Committee Esports and Gaming Liaison Group.  From nationwide amateur grassroots competition to cutting edge esports curriculum and national representation on the global stage, we’re dedicated to increasing levels of esports awareness, improving esports standards, and inspiring future esports talent.  For more information and all the latest news, visit www.britishesports.org or follow British Esports on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok.

About Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies

Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies is a dynamic and progressive learning institute offering specialist vocational education and training – from college-level courses to postgraduate degrees. Subject areas include audio and music technology and performance, games design and production, esports production, film and television, animation and VFX, content creation and live events production. Home to almost 3,000 students, Confetti is part of the multi-award-winning Nottingham Trent University. Confetti regularly hosts the British Esports Student Champs Finals and hosted the Commonwealth Games Championships Qualifying matches in August 2022. Opening in September 2023, Confetti and NTU will deliver pioneering creative education aligned to the entertainment industries at a new purpose-designed industry centre in Whitechapel, East London. For more information and all the latest news, visit www.confetti.ac.uk or follow Confetti on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.