Well-known British caster Alex “Machine” Richardson will be hosting the ESL Premiership CSGO and League of Legends UK & Ireland finals taking place this month.
Machine will be hosting the CSGO finals on March 18th, which sees MnM Gaming face FM-eSports, as well as the League of Legends finals on March 19th, where MnM will play against Team XENEX.
The appointment sees Machine return to work with the organisation where he first started out as a university student.
Since then, he’s gone on to work with ESL HQ and hosted big events like ESL One, DreamHack Masters and the Intel Extreme Masters.
“I am incredibly honored to be able to return to where a lot of this started and host the 2017 spring season finals. I’m excited to see what talent the UK is fielding this year.”
Alex “Machine” Richardson
“The ESL UK Premiership and ESL UK studio was where I was given the chance to forge a career in esports,” Machine said.
“I am incredibly honored to be able to return to where a lot of this started and host the 2017 spring season finals. I’m excited to see what talent the UK is fielding this year.”
ESL UK MD James Dean added: “Machine is easily one of the UK’s greatest success stories and we’re so pleased to be able to welcome him back to ESL UK at such an exciting time for the Premiership and British esports.”
The finals take place at the ESL UK studio in Leicester – tickets cost £5 and are available here.
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.
