Tournaments

December 14th, 2011

Welcome to the Tournaments section! This section is one your one stop shop for all information on the tournaments running at the event, also any pre event qualifiers that we run on-line.

Each tournament is listed below, allowing you sign-up, read tournament rules, view your matches & results and also connect to the IRC channel for the tournament. You will also find information on the admins, so you can find them if you have any problems.

Also make sure you check out our Insomnia Tournament Code of Conduct page.

Event Tournaments

Battlefield 3 sponsored by DICE/EA

At i45 we are hosting a Battlefield 3 tournament, and due to popular demand we have made this tournament a 6v6 format similar to the previous event, but we are including some Back to Karkand Expansion maps to add some variety! Please ensure you have the Back to Karkand (B2K) expansion for BF3, or that you bought the BF3 Limited Edition which includes the maps before you sign up for this tournament.

Check out the prizes tab for more information on what you could win!

Call of Duty 4

One of the longest running tournaments at the iSeries, COD 4: Modern Warfare is the game that sparked the biggest selling fps game franchise of all time. There are always epic matches between some awesome teams, and you can take part! Just grab a BYOC (Bring your own computer) ticket and then sign up following the guide below!

Call of Duty 4 Fun Tournament

Welcome to the Call of Duty 4 fun tournament page! This tournament is open to teams that wish to continue playing after they are eliminated from the prize winning competition! You have the chance to play teams of equal skill level and enjoy more games. The format and rules are currently the same as the prize winning tournament.

Counter-Strike: Source

Officially the longest running tournament ever at the Insomnia Gaming Festival, the Counter-Strike Source tournament looks like it’s here to stay forever, you do not want to miss this! With a minimum prize pot of £5000, possibly reaching £10,400 with 128 teams signed up – what are you waiting for?

Exhibitors – Currys & PC World

Click here for more information about this tournament.

Exhibitors – ESET

ESET will be hosting several competitions at the ESET stand in the exhibition hall. Left 4 Dead 2 and Minecraft fun competitions are running all weekend long for you to try and win some nice goodies, including goody-bags, Minecraft swag and even iPads!

Exhibitors – EVGA

Take a seat in the VRX iMotion, the world’s first full motion 3D racing simulator, courtesy of Triple Widescreen. Don your 3D glasses and prepare to feel all the vibrations, bumps, and body roll of a track or road race, while immersed in stunning NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround.

Exhibitors – Kick Energy

Kick energy are hosting daily competitions at their stand during the weekend, and you can win yourself a crate of Kick Energy to keep you gaming all event long!

Just come and set the highest score for the day on Marvel vs Capcom – and even if you do not get the highest score, Kick will generously give goodies for just having a go!

League of Legends

We are proud to present to you our League of Legends tournament at Insomnia45 – Sponsored by RIOT Games!

With a minimum prize pool of £6,000 this is one not to miss – the biggest League of Legends tournament ever held in the UK! Make sure to sign up soon to avoid dissapointment.

Minecraft

We return at insomnia45 with our incredible Creative Build Competition. This competition has you spending most of the weekend at the event crafting something to impress our judges and win some awesome prizes. This tournament is not only awesome fun for competitors and spectators, but is open to everyone that attends our event with a BYOC ticket – even if they are in other tournaments. You are given a ‘plot’ on one of our Minecraft servers, on which you flex your creative muscle (that’s your brain if you didn’t know) and show us what you can make.

SC2 2v2 Fun Tournament

Welcome to the Starcraft 2 fun tournament page!

If you get knocked out of the main Starcraft 2 tournament, or any other tournament that does not clash, you should enter this competition with a friend!

With no prize and the emphasis on fun, this tournament is going to run all day Saturday! From 10am for the group stage, and 2pm if you make it into the elimination stage, you can spend the day double 4-gating to your hearts content.

Starcraft 2

We will once again be be hosting another massive Starcraft 2 tournament. We have the biggest SC2 tournaments in the UK and after hosting the IPL4 Qualifier at i44 we are sure to put on a show this coming spring!

With up to £3,000 up for grabs get your place in this awesome tournament! Click “Sign Up” above

Team Fortress 2

TF2 has a place in everyone’s heart at Multiplay, being one of the most entertaining games ever committed to PC gaming – and our tournaments are no different. Grab your team of 6 and enter our tournament at insomnia45 – and you could win a share of the prize pot. This event the prize pot could get up to several thousand pounds with enough teams – so get your whole TF2 community to support this tournament and lets get some prize money for this great competition!

Team Fortress 2 Highlander 9v9 Fun

Welcome to the tournament page for the Team Fortress 2 Highlander Fun Tournament!

This tournament takes place after the group stages of the prize competition, and is for any teams that wish to continue to play with teams of similar skill levels and have a bit of fun. It is run with a HIGHLANDER ruleset – thats 9v9 with one player of each class!

Tournament Matrix and Schedule

Click here for more information about this tournament.

Xbox – FIFA 12

Not content with just Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Fighting Games for our Xbox tournaments, we are also hosting several FIFA12 competitions! One of the most popular games in the country, FIFA has been an event mainstay for a while now!

Partnering with sweetpatch.tv This event brings a few improvements for fans and new players alike.

Xbox – Fighting Games

At Insomnia45 we are going to be hosting some of the hottest Fighting Games for you to come and have it out on. Multiplay are Partnering with Unequalled Media to bring you SIX fighting games tournaments, all shoutcasted and streamed live from the event!

Xbox – Modern Warfare 3 Sponsored by Creative

After the success of running the CODXP London event we are proud to present to you our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 tournament on Xbox 360. Hosted at our Spring i45 event, we are expecting this to be massive so grab your tickets now so you are not disappointed!

Online Tournaments

CS:S i45 Online Qualifier – Win Tickets!

Officially the longest running tournament ever at the Insomnia Gaming Festival, the Counter-Strike Source tournament looks like it’s here to stay forever! This is an Online Tournament with i45 tickets up for grabs to the winners and runners up! Yes – 2 teams will win tickets – thats £535 worth of tickets (including EAS for thursday arrival) per team!

So effectively making this tournament a £1070 tournament in total ticket value!

Whether you qualify or not make sure you sign up to our £5,000 tournament at Insomnia45 where the prize pot has the scope to reach a massive £10,000!

This takes place on the nights of the 27th 28th and 29th of March 2012.

Check the schedule tab above for more info!

LoL 5v5 i45 Online Qualifier – Win Tickets!

Click here for more information about this tournament.

Minecraft Speed Build Competition

Welcome to the Minecraft Xmas Speed Build Competition page!

This is the speedier version of our Xmas Creative Competition! If you signed up to this tournament in December, you will need to sign up again below using the email address and format provided, since the dates moved.

Teams of up to 6 players can take part, and spend a whole weekend building something epic for our judges to look at. The top 6 will win a share of $1000 and some awesome Minecraft goodies, like Mojang signed T-Shirts from J!nx.

Minecraft Xmas Creative Competition

Welcome to the Minecraft Xmas Creative Competition page!

Here you will find updates about our online Minecraft competition which we are running for just over a month from Wednesday December 14th 2011 until Monday January 23rd 2012. These dates have moved due to the overwhelming response to our competition – do not fear, you still have just over a month to create your entries for our judges to view!

SC2 1v1 i45 Online Qualifier

Welcome to the SC2 1v1 Online Qualifier Tournament page! Here you can find out all you need to know to take part in our SC2 Insomnia45 qualification tournament.

We are giving away a ticket to Insomnia45 to the winner!