News, Sport, and Entertainment from the University of Gloucestershire
Friday, October 13 Full of speed, spectacles and sliding around the Pardon hairpin, the Prescott Speed Hillclimb championship season has come to a close with a day which saw its fair share of red flags. The Bugatti Owners’ Club season finale was blessed with warm weather over the hill in Prestbury, Gloucestershire for the event […]
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Role-playing games are almost always fantasy based. They’re also almost always set in a world that pre-dates our own, containing all kinds of medieval or ancient weaponry that we would only be able to see in museums. Take The Elder Scrolls, Kingdom Come, or Dark Souls for example. In this review, we’ll be […]
NUEL’s 2022 Winter finals took place this past weekend, and it was the first LAN event for national University Esports since the pandemic. The experience of playing in front of live crowds is much different than playing from the comfort of your own home, in front of a stream, and for many of the players […]
De Montfort University won both of the UK’s finals this past weekend, with their least convincing performance taking place at Confetti X in Nottingham, where they played in front of the first live audience NUEL finals after the pandemic. The win qualifies De Montfort for the Amazon University Esports Masters in 2023, a potential route […]
De Montfort found back-to-back 3-1 victories over Kent this past weekend, once on Saturday for the NUEL Winter finals and once on Sunday for the NSE Winter finals, winning both of the UK’s national collegiate League of Legends competitions in one fell swoop. After impressing a live audience in Nottingham on Saturday and dazzling an […]
University of Gloucestershire’s E-Sports Manager Ben Solomons will be busking with a flute on Cheltenham High Street this Saturday in order to raise money to support Movember. The entire E-Sports society has gotten behind him in support and have even decided the songs that he will be playing via a collaborative Spotify playlist. View this […]
The result of the Overwatch team’s matches tonight will determine whether they are able to make it to play-offs or their season ends here. Overwatch went 2-1 on Monday, ahead of their final week of qualifiers. The Goats have shown steady progress, walking away with their winningest week yet after a star performance from Jon, […]
University Esports teams have started competing again with the successful teams able to qualify for varsity where the teams compete for money. The League of Legends team won two of their first two games against Derby and Birmingham, but suffered a defeat to Heriot-Watt to make a 2-1 record so far. The side struggled during […]
Both the University of Gloucestershire’s League of Legends first and second teams have started their 2022 Spring season. The first team only lost one game out of three in their first day of the competition, and the loss could be solely attributed to the absence of their ‘jungler’, Will. Will’s teammate, Adam Leaning, revealed to […]
A controversial decision has been made to officially include E-sports as a pilot event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The news was met with open arms by many, but not without an equal amount of push-back. One criticism originated from Gloucestershire’s Olympic silver medalist Sharron Davies who said in a response to the […]