UNIVERSITY Esports UK and Ireland launches its Spring 2025 Season: learn more about the games, schedules and signups

UNIVERSITY Esports is back for its Spring 2025 Season, which is open to students from universities across the UK and Ireland and brings with it five tournaments and six weeks of action across Overwatch 2, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and VALORANT. The tournaments will give students the opportunity to showcase their competitive skills against their peers, while also helping to build the grassroots gaming community – as participants play with their friends and make new ones.

This season of UNIVERSITY Esports follows high participation in the previous Winter 2024 Season, where over 600 teams and 3,000 players took part every week. UNIVERSITY Esports currently counts more than 20,000 people across more than 110 universities registered in the community.

Broadcasts of the Winter 2024 Grand Finals were produced by students from the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies (at Nottingham Trent University), in partnership with UNIVERSITY Esports staff to support the next generation of broadcasters.

Beyond competition

UNIVERSITY Esports, a grassroots esports organiser in the UK and Ireland operated by NUEL (a subsidiary of GGTech Entertainment), is about much more than just online competition, and also plays a big role in fostering communities and providing career opportunities and education.

Winter also saw the return of the UNIVERSITY Tour, an in-person series of events aimed at raising awareness of the esports community and building real-life connections between players. Nottingham Trent University and the University of Staffordshire hosted these face-to-face activities, with hundreds of students engaged about the benefits of participating in the esports community both professionally and to have fun.

Spring 2025 Tournament schedule

Signups are now open for the UNIVERSITY Esports Spring 2025 Season, and the tournaments will take place over February and March. Winning teams will be awarded with a shared £2,550 prize pool.

Key dates are as follows:

Overwatch 2

– Signups Close: Saturday 8th February

– Games Begin: Monday 10th February

Teamfight Tactics

– Signups Close: Sunday 9th February

– Games Begin: Tuesday 11th February

Women and Non-Binary VALORANT

– Signups Close: Tuesday 11th February

– Games Begin: Tuesday 18th February

League of Legends

– Signups Close: Monday 10th February

– Games Begin: Wednesday 12th February

Open VALORANT

– Signups Close: Tuesday 11th February

– Games Begin: Thursday 13th February

To take part, players need to verify their student status (if they haven’t already in Winter), and either create or join a team. Interested players can find out more information and register at universityesports.co.uk, and on the Discord.