ESL is teaming up with Varsity Games to host a League of Legends match between the University of Leicester (UoL) and De Montfort University (DMU).
The derby match will take place at ESL’s studio 1 in Leicester on Saturday March 11th from 11am to 6pm.
Students are being asked to help run the event, with organisers looking for production and admin staff, as well as casters and a stage host.
Varsity Games was launched last year by the organisers behind GameBritannia, who held the Heritage 1 and Heritage 2 Dota events earlier this year.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) won the first Varsity Games Dota 2 tournament in November 2016.
Varsity Games was created by Amy Yu, the person behind GameBritannia (which held the Heritage 1 and Heritage 2 Dota events in 2016), and Sujoy Roy, a games industry veteran, former Quake esports pro and founder of physical retail zone Gamerbase (which was bought by HMV).
An official public announcement on the League of Legends match has not yet been made by ESL or Varsity Games.
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.
