Ireland Esports Collegiate Winter Series/2025/Premier
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About
- A new top tier for 25/26, mirroring “First Team” structures in traditional sports (like varsity rugby or football). It’s where each university fields its strongest representative team.
- Full national broadcasts (Mon–Thu), LAN National Finals in May, and recognition as the university’s top team. The focus is high performance, visibility, and varsity-level standards.
- To elevate esports to the same status as other top-tier student sports, we believe that this format will help to increase awareness of esports within the competing institutions and create a reason to start seeking more support for the Societies, players and coaches etc.
- The seeds for the event are as follows:
1. Trinity Quacks
2. UCD Leviathans
3. SETU Vikings
4. QUB Whiffers
5. Maynooth Martyrs
6. DCU Clutch or Drink
7. UCC Boring Players
8. TUD A
9. ATU Aegis
Rules
Format
- Group stage:
- The regular season will use a round-robin league format.
- Bracket stage:
- The top teams will advance to a single-elimination playoff bracket.
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:
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Prize Pool
€TBC EUR (≃ $TBC USD) divided between the top TBC teams.
Converted EUR prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (fxtop.com) on 06/10/25.
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Group Stage
| Round Robin Group A | ||||||
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| October 8, 2025 - November 5, 2025{{#vardefine:show_points|}}{{#vardefine:win_points|}}{{#vardefine:tie_points|}} | ||||||
| 1. | Maynooth Martyrs | 3-1 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 2. | Trinity Quacks | 3-1 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 3. | QUB Whiffers | 3-1 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 4. | TUD A | 1-3 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 5. | ATU Aegis | 0-4 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| Round Robin Group B | ||||||
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| October 8, 2025 - November 5, 2025{{#vardefine:show_points|}}{{#vardefine:win_points|}}{{#vardefine:tie_points|}} | ||||||
| 1. | UCD Leviathans | 4-0 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 2. | SETU Vikings | 3-1 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 3. | UCC Boring Players | 2-2 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
| 4. | DCU Clutch or Drink | 1-3 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{".p | |||
Bracket Stage
External links
- Premier Winter - CS2 - Overview - Tournament | Challengermode, challengermode.com
- Ireland Esports Collegiate Series Returns for 2025/26 — Bigger, Bolder, and Ready to Raise the Game Post, irelandcollegiate.com
References
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