- For the first time in its 8-year history, the Amazon UNIVERSITY Esports Masters finals will be held in the UK.
- Live finals will take place on Saturday 8th July at the Confetti X esports complex in Nottingham.
Nottingham, UK, 6 June 2023.- Amazon UNIVERSITY Esports Masters (AUEM) is the pinnacle of university esports in Europe. This event is the conclusion of an academic year in which over 10,000 players from over 1,000 universities in 21 countries competed to make it to this final stage of the competition.
The finals will take place live and in-person at the state-of-the-art Confetti X esports complex in Nottingham, in what promises to be a spectacular day of esports on Saturday 8th July. The live finals will feature League of Legends, VALORANT and Rocket League, crowning this season’s European University Champions.
In-person attendees with tickets are welcome to come along any time of the day to see whichever games they wish. The event is free to attend and, in addition to hosting the top university teams in Europe, will also feature a casual gaming area for attendees to enjoy, as well as organised activities with esports-related giveaways. Tickets are available at this link.
What is new in this edition
This is the first time in the 8-year history of the AUEM that the final will be held in the UK.
Amazon UNIVERSITY Esports Masters is run as a whole by Spanish technology company GGTech Entertainment, and the finals will be delivered in the UK by NUEL, in partnership with Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. This follows the recent announcement that GGTech has acquired NUEL to expand its activities in the UK & Ireland gaming and esports sector.
In a year of firsts, this will be the first time that a game other than League of Legends will be featured in the AUEM live finals, with VALORANT and Rocket League also taking place. It is also the first season of the AUEM to include teams from the Middle East and Africa.
Finals schedule
The finals of the three game titles will take place on the 8th of July.
The League of Legends Finals will take place first at 09:45 am UK Time (BST). It is an all-German match-up; teams ‘AIX Schwer’ (Rheinisch Westfälische Hochschule Aachen) and the ‘Dr Buhmann Akademie [H]’ League of Legends Team (Dr. Buhmann Schule & Akademie) will face each other in a Best of 5 final.
The second final will be the Rocket League Final at 15:15 BST. The Dr. Buhmann Akademie H Rocket League team will face “Amsterdam Carball Esports” (from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands) in a Best of 7 format.
The VALORANT Final will take place from 17:00 BST and will conclude the day and the competition. Teams ‘Winx Club’ (Bursa Uludag University – Turkey) and ‘GOETTLIKE’ (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen – Germany) will face each other in a Best of 5.
International live broadcast
The full finals can be viewed on the competition’s official Twitch channel (twitch.tv/uemasters), with English-language narration. In addition, a number of partners across Europe will be broadcasting in their local languages.
In the international broadcast, viewers will be guided through the finals by Maxwell ‘BlackBloxer’ Calvert and Jack ‘Middlecott’ Davies for the League of Legends final. The Rocket League finals will be presented by Kieran ‘Kairo’ Tulloch and Harry ‘Hazza’ Chapman. Kairo and Hazza will then be joined by Harry ‘Docda’ Evans to cast the VALORANT final. The host for the event will be Stanley ‘Greyhart’ Barker.
More than just an esports competition
Amazon UNIVERSITY Esports is not just an esports tournament. It is a project present in 21 countries on 4 continents, which seeks to integrate the recreational and competitive aspect of video games with educational activities. Each of these countries offers workshops presented by professionals in the esports industry to university students interested in learning more about the industry.
This program also gives students the chance to get their first paid work experience in areas such as broadcasting, event planning, marketing, and community management.
Supporting the student esports community
Amazon UNIVERSITY Esports UK & Ireland is made possible thanks to the support of top-level publishers and brands such as Riot Games and HP OMEN.
Posted on 05 July 2023
