The annual Esports Tournament for the London insurance community
Game Nights 19th January, 26th January
Finals Night 2nd February 2022
Finals Night 2nd February 2022
Welcome to the 2022 Superscript Charity Esports Tournament page. After the success of our inaugural event in 2022 we are hosting charity Warzone and FIFA tournaments, to bring the London insurance community together, in support of upReach and other charities to bolster the £3,781 raised for various charities at last years event.
Winners of the tournament will be crowned Superscript Charity Esports Tournament Champions. The charity donation will be split between upReach and the charities chosen by the winning teams of each of the Warzone and FIFA tournament sections.
TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW
Full details on the tournament can be found on the Superscript website here or by pasting gosuperscript.com/the-superscript-charity-esports-tournament in your browser.
Highlights:
Games – Warzone and FIFA.
Game Nights – 19:00 – 21:00
Wednesdays 19th and 26th January & Finals Night 2nd February 2022.
Platform – Crossplay enabled. Warzone is open to PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox Series X and Xbox One players. There is 2 separate strands to FIFA Tournament, Xbox and PlayStation and all team members must have access to the same brand of console.
Teams – Companies can enter up to four teams for each game, consisting of four players plus one substitute for Warzone or FIFA.
Captains – A team captain should be nominated to communicate on behalf of your team.
Format and Fixtures – League formats for Warzone and FIFA will be available once the draw has taken place, on Monday 17th January 2022.
Communications – Team captains will be emailed joining instructions once they have entered their team, and all in-game communication between team captains and tournament admins will take place on the Superscript Esports Discord. A link to join will be sent once teams have signed up.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Once the tournament is live, you will find your opponents’ Activision IDs & Gamertags in the worksheets at the bottom of the page.
To find your fixtures, click on the relevant worksheet, and on the bottom left-hand corner to find your relevant group. For example, to find your fixtures for Group B, click on the ‘Group B’ worksheet.
To find your current standings, navigate to the relevant fixture worksheet to find your group table.
The scores will be updated live as we receive the confirmed results from team captains, and you can check here to keep up to date with your team’s progress by refreshing the page.
Players must be familiar with the rules before taking part and you can find these here for Warzone and here for FIFA.
If you have any problems or issues reading the spreadsheet please drop us an email by clicking here.
WHO’S IN?
Join us for some gaming fun in support of charity!
The tournament is open to all London insurance and reinsurance companies, brokers, adjusters, law firms, insurtechs and any businesses involved in the insurance ecosystem.
The entry cost is £250 + VAT per team, with all profits from team entries and sponsorship distributed to the winning companies’ chosen charities. Entry includes tournament management with dedicated responsive admins, access to our dedicated Discord Server, live scoring system, networking and branding opportunities such as player profiles with links to your LinkedIn profiles included on this page.
To sign up, please submit your details below and from there you will be emailed an entry form to fill in your players’ details and nominate a chosen charity. Once this is returned, you will be sent an invoice with the option to pay online or by BACS.
Entries close on Tuesday 9th March 2021 at 17:00.
Player Profiles
2021 Superscript Charity Esports Tournament Schedule & Previous Participants
Below you will be able to find the Tournament schedule. Each player was advised to add each opponent as friends on their console in advance. You can find a helpful guide to adding a friend online here
To find all the fixtures, click on the relevant worksheet on the bottom tab of the spreadsheet to find your group. For example, a player in Group A would click on the ‘Thurs 19 Group A’ worksheet to find their teams fixtures for Wednesday 19th Jan .
The fixtures for each evening are detailed in the below sheets under your group.
The Group A worksheet is open by default with time and date outlined on there for your matches you then you must navigate to the relevant fixture worksheet to find your fixtures.
The scores will be updated live as we receive the confirmed results from both teams.
Flock Cover Me Esports Team
Tommy Wilson, Drone Partnerships Manager
Name/Job Title: Tommy Wilson, Partnerships Manager
Activision ID: Raging__BullFrog#9651320
First console: Sega Megadrive
Favourite Game: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Favourite Gaming Memory: Killing Andrew Ryan in Bioshock
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Shooting the opposition is both business and pleasure – Also networking in strange times.
David O’Connor, Software Engineer
Name/Job Title: David O’Connor, Software Engineer
Activision ID: dgmoc#6554221
First console: Gameboy Pocker
Favourite Game: Halo 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: First time beating the legendary four
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Pwning n00bs
Emily Staton, Sales Development Representative
Name/Job Title: Emily Staton, Sales Development Representative
Activision ID: SWANKYPANDA#2983831
First console: xbox 360
Favourite Game: Halo 3/ World of Warcraft – I can’t choose
Favourite Gaming Memory: Sitting and completing the whole Halo Reach campaign with my younger sister on Christmas day 2010, only stopping to take a break for Christmas dinner and making the rest of our family watch
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: To seem like the cool, new kid on the block amongst my new colleagues
Kieran Mulholland, Data Engineer
Name/Job Title: Kieran Mulholland, Data Engineer
Activision ID: K_Dawg90
First console: Gameboy Pocker
Favourite Game: Pokemon Red
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing GTA San Andreas on ps2 for the first time
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: To switch up getting pwned by kids online
Hot Potatoes Esports Team
Ben Davis, Lead- Emerging Technology and International
Name/Job Title: Ben Davis, Lead- Emerging Technology and International
Activision ID: c4mBR0d1A
First console: N64
Favourite Sports Team: …..Like actual sports?
Hopes for the Tournament: That our opposition will take pity on us
Luke Curtis, Senior developer
Name/Job Title: Luke Curtis, Senior developer
Activision ID: atomicshapes
First console: xbox
Favourite Sports Team: McLaren F1
Hopes for the Tournament: To get at least one point on the board
Dan Ross, Underwriter
Name/Job Title: Dan Ross, Underwriter
Activision ID: Bagheera
First console: IBM Thinkpad – Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein and Hexen
Favourite Sports Team: Astralis
Hopes for the Tournament: To beat CFC
Name/Job Title: Ross Chater, Senior Software Engineer
Activision ID: rossco
First console: PS1
Favourite Sports Team: Newcastle United
Hopes for the Tournament: WIN
Simply Business Esports Team
Patrick Rodowicz, Head of Insight
Name/Job Title: Patrick Rodowicz, Head of Insight
Activision ID: OpanteDarkwave#4137232
First console: NES
Favourite Sports Team: Path of Exile
Name/Job Title: Jack Arthurton, Data Architect
Activision ID: Badger1303#1573127
Oli Ramsay, Senior Insight Analyst
Name/Job Title: Oli Ramsay, Senior Insight Analyst
Activision ID: Ramborino#6833281
Keith O’Brien, Behavioural Insights Lead
Name/Job Title: Keith O’Brien, Behavioural Insights Lead
Activision ID: The Doctor#3653642
First console: Sega Game Gear
Favourite Game: Final Fantasy 7
Favourite Gaming Memory: Using the Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2 Reason for getting involved in
Business Esports: Doing it for the Kids.
The One Shot Wonders Esports Team
Stewart Duncan, Chief Data Officer
Name/Job Title: Stewart Duncan, Chief Data Officer
Activision ID: Kimblebrook
First console: PS3 (I was a late convert from the PC)
Favourite Sports Team: Go Bokke!
Hopes for the Tournament: People will be giving as generously to charity as I will be giving away kills
Luke McKay-Smith, Tech Lead
Name/Job Title: Luke McKay-Smith, Tech Lead
Activision ID: Diggery1234#6335178
First console: Amiga 500 😅
Favourite Sports Team: This One
Hopes for the Tournament: Live. Laugh. Love.
Craig Morris, Head of Engineering
Name/Job Title: Craig Morris, Head of Engineering
Activision ID: morrislaptop_uk
First console: Sega Mega Drive
Favourite Sports Team: Risky Digits
Hopes for the Tournament: Kill it, it being singular, at least one person.
Martin Rojo, Senior Frontend Engineer
Name/Job Title: Martin Rojo, Frontend Engineer
Activision ID: shmarts
First console: Animal Crossing
Favourite Sports Team: Brazil
Hopes for the Tournament: Impress my girlfriend.
The CoDlings Team
Kira O’Sullivan, SEO & Content Manager
Name/ Job Title: David Bates/ Claims Technician
First console: This would probably be the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) before I moved onto the SNES. Ironically the Atari was the third one I used
Favourite Game: I’d say that my favourite game from childhood would probably be Alexx the Kidd, or Golden Axe, but Today, I’d definitely say that Call of Duty: Warzone is my favourite
Favourite Gaming Memory: I think it would probably be completing one of the Trials on Destiny when it first came out. Having to work together with your friends as a team, going over the same thing 100’s of times before managing to beat the final boss and finishing it. Otherwise it would be just any day I get to play with friends
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: I’ve always wanted to put my hand to a Tournament, just to be able to see how I compare to others, and being able to play to win money for charity with ERS, was the perfect opportunity
Martin Zerbib, Sales Engineer
Name/Job Title: Martin Zerbib, Sales Engineer
Activision ID: lemooglez
First console: Gameboy Colour
Favourite Sports Team: G2
Hopes for the Tournament: To inspire Netflix’s next underdog movie.
Hugo Balfour, Solutions Manager
Name/Job Title: Hugo Balfour, Solutions Manager
Activision ID: ballyb89
First console: SNES
Favourite Sports Team: Liverpool
Hopes for the Tournament: Revenge after the pasting received in the last tournament
Ranulf Swallow, Broker
Name/Job Title: Ranulf Swallow, Broker
Activision ID: ranulfswallow
First console: Sega Mega Drive
Favourite Sports Team: England Cricket Team
Hopes for the Tournament: To fight with honour and avoid humiliation
ERS Esports Team
Name/Job Title: David Bates/ Claims Technician
Activision ID: chaotic zephyr
First console: This would probably be the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) before I moved onto the SNES. Ironically the Atari was the third one I used
Favourite Game: I’d say that my favourite game from childhood would probably be Alexx the Kidd, or Golden Axe, but Today, I’d definitely say that Call of Duty: Warzone is my favourite
Favourite Gaming Memory: I think it would probably be completing one of the Trials on Destiny when it first came out. Having to work together with your friends as a team, going over the same thing 100’s of times before managing to beat the final boss and finishing it. Otherwise it would be just any day I get to play with friends
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: I’ve always wanted to put my hand to a Tournament, just to be able to see how I compare to others, and being able to play to win money for charity with ERS, was the perfect opportunity
Name/Job Title: Daniel John/Operations Manager
Activision ID: Zingerspack
First console: NES
Favourite Game: Splinter Cell
Favourite Gaming Memory: First 4 player game with friends on Jonah Lomu rugby with the multitap.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Competing and raising money for a great cause.
Simon Thomas, Test and Configuration Analyst
Name/Job Title: Simon Thomas/Test and Configuration Analyst
Activision ID: G1NGERsi
First console: Sega Master System
Favourite Game: Farming Simulator
Favourite Gaming Memory: The first time me and my two children won a game of APEX legends.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: The idea of being involved in an online tournament has always been appealing, getting the opportunity to do that with the potential of raising money for charity is just a win win situation.
Jack Thomas, Assistant Underwriter
Name/Job Title: Jack Thomas/Assistant Underwriter
Activision ID: hotspur94#6375093
First console: Sega Megadrive (my dad’s I used to play Sonic all the time) But my personal first console was the PS1
Favourite Game: The original Crash Bandicoot back in the day as it was the first game I bought with my own money.
Favourite Gaming Memory: Getting a Win with Simon on the BR on black ops 4 (we were not very good but managed it once) at maybe 1AM and whisper screaming to celebrate because his wife was asleep upstairs.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: I love getting competitive so lets see how this goes.
Thomas Carter, Support Analyst
Name/Job Title: Thomas Carter/Support Analyst
Activision ID: Blinkdude
First console: Xbox
Favourite Game: Gears of War
Favourite Gaming Memory: The constant arguments with friends playing goldeney
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Enjoy gaming in a more competitive setting for fun
Name/Job Title: Geraint Protheroe/PI Claims Technician
Activision ID: Grunt2K
First console: Not sure it had a name but you could play pong on a twisty controller
Favourite Game: Assassins Creed Black Flag
Favourite Gaming Memory: 100%’ing Red Dead Redemption
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: It’s not every day you get to play COD and raise money for charity
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