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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