Warwick Esports Dominate Winter Season (again)
With the university esports season coming to a close, Warwick’s excellence has never been clearer.
With the winter season finished we now can look back at Warwick’s many successes! Across both university esports tournament providers, we had 18 top 8 teams, and 14 top 4 teams, out of the 20 tournaments.
League of Legends (NSE)
1st
Tekken (NSE)
1st, 3rd, 4th
Overwatch (NUEL)
1st
Dota 2 (NSE)
2nd
Hearthstone (NSE)
2nd
League of Legends (NUEL)
4th
Rainbow 6: Siege(NSE)
4th
Rocket League (NSE)
4th
Valorant
4th
Rainbow 6: Siege (NUEL)
4th
Rocket League (NUEL)
4th
Overwatch (NSE)
4th
The BUEC table as of December 2021
On top of this, we are positioned at the top of the BUEC (British University Esports Championship) league table, leading with 50% more points than 2nd place. With these points accounting for half of the final total, this lead leaves Warwick in a very comfortable position to hold onto our title of Esports University of the Year for a 4th year running. The full BUEC points table can be found here.
Josh “Phosphorescent” Mankelow, president of Warwick Esports, commented that
“a lot of people may put down our success to just luck of the draw when it comes to players, but the results show more than that. Having fielded these magnitudes of wins for more than 3 years now, we can now really flex the weight of our institutional advantage; the ethos that we build for our players and our teams and the support that we can give them to reach their fullest potential.
In fact, the latest points table shows that our advantage over the other top universities doesn’t come from the number of teams we have, but from the quality of our top teams, with so many making it so far into each and every tournament. Every player at Warwick is playing to maximise their individual point contribution and that’s really hard for other unis to compete with”
Warwick, Staffs and Loughborough are pretty much tied when you only account for teams scoring less than 80-90 points, but Warwick Breaks away from the pack once you include stronger teams.
Data adjusted for student body size can be found here.
On top of competitive successes, there is much more to recap. This term:
Warwick opened its new esports centre (link)
We received our trophy for our esports university of the year win last year (link)
We launched our new community exclusively for Women and Non-binary members (link)
One of our members won a women in games global award (link)
We ran an event with Melanin Gamers to highlight BAME under-representation in esports (link)
We headed to ESI London with the esports centre staff to secure some exciting partnerships (link)
The university got its first full time esports staff (link)
We levelled up our existing partnership with HyperX, securing more peripherals and prizing for our members.
We established a new partnership with BowenBrosLTD, securing valuable practice time at the esports centre.
We established a new partnership with Tenstar, which included sending a representative with them to the Valorant VCT gamechangers finals, and appearing on their podcast (link)
We helped run an entire NSE Hearthstone Tournament, complete with live finals! (link)
We announced the UK’s first in-person typing tournament (in a very long time, at the very least) (link)
None of this would be possible without the amazing work done by our staff and broader community this year. From the team at Warwick Esports, we wish you a Merry Christmas and New Years, happy holidays and look forward to showing you what we have in store for the coming year.
