Ireland Esports Collegiate 2025/26 Premier National Finals

[e][h]Ireland Esports Collegiate 2025/26 Premier National Finals

League Information

Organizer:

Nativz Gaming GamerFest

Sponsor:

Red Bull Logitech G
Dogpatch Labs

Game Version:

Counter-Strike 2

Type:

Online, Offline

Location:

Ireland

Venue:

GamerFest Main Stage, The RDS Dublin

Format:

Single Elimination

Start Date:

2026-05-13

End Date:

2026-05-24

Links

Winners

Maps

Ancient • Dust II • Inferno • Mirage • Nuke • Anubis • Overpass

Teams

Number of Teams:

4

About

The Ireland Esports Collegiate Series 2025/26 National Finals are heading to the GamerFest Main Stage at the RDS on 23–24 May, supported by Red Bull. Sunday, May 24th: Rocket League National Final followed by Counter-Strike 2 National Final.

After a full season across Winter and Spring, the top university teams in Ireland have earned their place in the Premier Division semi-finals — with just one series separating them from Finals weekend on May 23rd–24th. Now, across four nights of competition, the stakes are simple: win and advance, or the season ends. This is the eighth consecutive season of the Ireland Esports Collegiate Series — and the first under the new Premier Division format, where each university’s top team competes for institutional pride as much as individual titles.

The 4 top teams from the regular season events (2026 Spring Series Premier and the earlier 2025 Winter Series Premier) qualified to the semi finals, with the final 2 teams to proceed to the LAN finals. The points over these regular season events was as follows:

2025/26 Season Ranking	Team	Points
1st	Trinity Quacks	200
2nd	UCD Leviathans	110
3rd / 4th	SETU Vikings	100
3rd / 4th	UCC Boring Players	100
5th	QUB Whiffers	70
6th	MUVINCERE	60
7th	TUD A	20
8th	DCU Clutch or Drink	10
9th	ATU Aegis	0

The seeds as such for the event were as follows:

1. Trinity Quacks
2. UCD Leviathans
3. / 4. SETU Vikings
3. / 4. UCC Boring Players

The top four teams, determined by championship points accumulated across both semesters, advance to the Semi-Finals. Matchups are seeded:

1st vs 4th
2nd vs 3rd

The second semi final between [UCD Leviathans] and [SETU Vikings] was streamed on the separate twitch channel NativzGG. This was due to both semi finals taking place at the same time.

Rules

Format

Bracket stage:
- The winners of the online semi finals will advance to the LAN grand finals.

Expand to see the full list of rules for this event:

Check-in period: Teams have a 15-minute grace period to be ready for their match. Any team not ready after 15 minutes will forfeit the match, unless an exception is granted by an admin.
Team size: 5vs5. Each Premier Series team may use a one-time emergency substitute during the season.
Max rounds: 12 rounds.
Anti Cheat: VAC.
These rules are not complete, you can find the whole rulebook here.

Broadcast talent

Commentators:
- Kurt
- Oroblanco
- shaw
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