Our History

September 30, 2015

First Member Joined

October 16, 2015

First General Members' Assembly

April 11, 2016

TSEA Link Was Officially Founded

September 10, 2016

100th Member Joined

On the 10th of September in 2016, roughly a year after its conception, the 100th person would join TSEA Link. Link had seen a huge growth in its first year and showed no signs of stopping its expansion.

April 26, 2017

First Edition of The Missing Link Conference

The Missing Link was created to fill a gap identified by the two founders of Link (Maurits & Jos). They found that a great number of scientists, one of their own members - Chrissy Cook included, faced substantial difficulties in finding people for their research. Furthermore, there was no real event matching E-Sporters and their teams, businesses and academics together: thus, the Missing Link was born.

December 7, 2017

Link Game Room Announced

Link finally announced that we would be receiving our very own game room, which would be dubbed 'Spawn Point'. The Spawn Point will allow competitive teams to train together and will also function as a social hangout.

February, 2018

First Link Trip - Prague

May 22, 2018

Second Edition of The Missing Link Conference

After the success of the first edition, the Missing Link would be hosted a second time, this time featuring Chrissy Cook, Maria Ruotsalainen, Max van Kuipers and Link founder Maurits Meeusen. Equally succesful, this year would learn us about legal challenges in the e-sports industry, research on trolling behaviour in League of Legends, the portrayal of Overwatch League in mainstream media and give us insights on the work of a mental coach for an e-sports team.

August 27, 2018

Jos Buijvoets & Maurits Meeusen appointed as Honorary Members

February, 2019

Second Link Trip - Porto

April, 2019

Opening of Spawn Point

In April 2019, we finally opened our own room on university grounds. The room, named 'Spawn Point', will be used for members to play games and organise events. Competitive teams will be able to train in the room as well.

June, 2019

Founding of Respawn

On June 14th 2019, Link's alumni assocation Respawn was officially founded. Respawn is an initiative to keep graduates and ex-Link members involved with each other based on their common interests, even beyond their time as a student.

January 8, 2020

200th Member Joined

After five years of TSEA Link, we managed to get our 200th member! Link has proven to be a very broad, welcoming and fast-growing association. We definitely want to keep improving and expanding, in order to make Link the home of even more gamers and game-enthousiasts.

April, 2022

First Lustrum

Albeit 2 years late due to the COVID-19 pandemic, TSEA Link finally got to celebrate their first Lustrum! This celebration of 5+2 years of our beautiful association was definitely one for the history books. Starting off with an opening drink and pub quiz, we got off to a strong start. Throughout the week, there was a 3-course-meal as well as a trip to the Gaming Factory and a movie night. To close off the week, there was a gala of epic proportions and one of the infamous TSEA Link Scavenger Hunts!

March, 2023

Link raises 1700 euros for charity in 65-hour stream!

From the 24th of March until the 27th we hosted our most successful charity stream ever! With the help of 41 individual streamers, we managed to collect 1700 euros for the Red Cross. It was an unforgettable weekend, full of insane challenges, such as eating hot peppers and drinking from a shoe. The board closed off with a 10-hour finale which drove the money over the edge and them to the edge of their sanity.