News, Sport, and Entertainment from the University of Gloucestershire
The 15th edition of the Hockey Men’s World Cup gets underway on Friday, January 13 in Bhubaneswar, India. All games will be played at the Kalinga stadium with Argentina taking on South Africa in the first game of the competition. Host nation India start campaign against world number eight Spain. But the highlight of the […]
The weekends’ racing saw a competitive Tolworth, a big-priced winner in the Veterans’ Chase and another runner added to Mullins’ Cheltenham army over at Naas. Tahmuras enhanced his chances for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle as he won the Grade One Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle, in testing ground at Sandown Park. Racing keen early on, Tahmuras sat […]
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 Men’s Volleyball add yet another defeat in their BUCS League game against Cardiff University but are heading into the Western Conference Cup with their “heads held high”. The close nature of the teams’ positions in the league prepared them both for a tough match as the Gloucester boys did not get off […]
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, […]
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 […]