Belgian Championship 2023

The Belgian Championship is part of the official Nintendo European Championship tournament to crown the best team in Europe. The tournament took place online on the 21st of July 2023. There were four qualifiers and an online semi-final for it. The qualifiers took place at the same time as the Dutch championship qualifiers.

1st Qualifier: (17th of May 2023) Booyahsauce won the first qualifier, beating Flying Fries in the finals. Seppe, a well-known member of the Belgian community, captained the team consisting of FeM, wiinters, Abid and Mauro DP.

2nd Qualifier: (20th of May 2023) Overtime (considered the favorites to win the competition) won the second qualifier, beating The Chaudes Aardappelen (Hot Potatoes) in the finals of that day. Team Overtime inherits Robbe, a top western inkbrush player who's been winning the Belgian championships every year. The other members of the team Noah, Momet and Fleau are also well-known players.

3rd Qualifier: (21st of May 2023) The Chaudes Aardappelen came back and took the win in the third qualifier where they beat Moules-frites, another potato-based team. Their team lineup consisted of Dimi, Frooost, Azuri and SaiharaK.

4th Qualifier: (24th of May 2023) In this qualifier Inkbucket was beaten by Land of Tomorrow in the finals. Land of Tomorrow is another very strong team with Punchy leading Arno, Sneaky and Jamil.

The online semi-final matches took place on the 28th of May. The two winning teams were Overtime and Land of Tomorrow. Their match should have been decided in an upcoming LAN event but both teams unfortunately couldn't make the date. After this, the final match was changed to an online event.

The final match took place on the 21st of July. It was streamed in English by Dapple Productions and in French by EBTV. Overtime took the win that day and swept through their matches, though many of the games came down to the wire, with Overtime edging out Land of Tomorrow with their speed. The VOD can be viewed here.