Teams confirmed for Fragsoc university CSGO Invitational

The final eight university teams taking part in the Fragsoc CSGO Invitational have been confirmed.
The LAN event – announced a few months ago – will take place on November 25th and 26th at the University of York campus. It will be streamed live from 12pm to 7pm on the Saturday and 10am to 7pm on the Sunday.
The winning team will win the £500 top prize, sponsored by TalkTalk.
Organiser Jordan “SynonymForTree” Reece previously told Esports News UK: “I believe university esports has the potential to provide grassroots foundations for UK esports – and hopefully having LAN events like this can help develop more talent.”
The participating teams and rosters are as follows:
University of York

• Daniel ‘pixL’ Groom
• Iwan ‘Eyewan’ Harvey
• Jack ‘Jack’ Forryan
• Joshua ‘ndl’ Venters
• Luke ‘LSW24’ Wetherall

Lancaster University

• Callum ‘Enigma’ Merrill
• Rhys ‘Exparilis’ Maddren
• Toby ‘Tobz’ Myles
• Matthew ‘QPC | Matt’ Taylor
• Gabriel ‘oaK’ Niedojadlo

De Montfort University 

• Halim ‘-Juicy’ Azeez
• Ryan ‘RJP’ Payne
• Jack ‘J4CK’ Slosmanis
• Milo ‘miNi McMahon
• Sam ‘Prydzy’ Clark

University of Hull

• Dhillan ‘AlphaKennyV2’ Kumar-Kauldhar
• Adam ‘GHOST’ Knight
• Liam ‘Clarky’ Clark
• Sam ‘sharpie’ Sharp
• Jack ‘zZpirit’ Wright

University of Derby

• Mark ‘Su10kt’ Flanagan
• Thomas ‘teddsteR’ Dutton
• Connor ‘Geetoff Mi Lorn’ Spinks
• Elliot ‘Elmo’ Brown
• Ben ‘Dodgypig’ Bryce

Keele University

• Tyler ‘Vanilla’ Wells
• Ryan ‘Hizy’ Hissey
• Liam ‘Toastwiz Franks
• James ‘Mully’ Mulhearn
• Adrian ‘Guesty’ Guest

University of Warwick

• Philip ‘m_fx’ Holland
• Jack ‘masoN’ Mason
• Jacob ‘OriginalG’ Girling
• Toyaj ‘Tanu’ Singh
• George ‘Gibby’ Gibson

University of Sheffield

• Lewis ‘TheLegendL’ Hernaman
• Thomas ‘Caesura’ Kelly
• Joshua ‘Feels Baz Man’ Bazley
• Theo ‘Chill’ Barefoot
• James ‘mynameisrayman’ Raeside

You can check out more details on the Fragsoc Invitational Facebook page

Dom Sacco

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.