Ranked Coaching
One-on-one VOD reviews and live-play sessions across League of Legends, Valorant and CS2. Includes a personalised improvement plan and weekly rank tracking.
From A$90 / 60-min session
Competitive gaming studio · Fitzroy, Melbourne
We build champions and the arenas they compete in.
Free Champion Citadel is a Fitzroy-based esports studio. We coach ranked players, produce broadcast-grade tournaments, and engineer the platforms that keep Australian gaming communities online.
- 4,200+
- Coaching hours logged
- 38
- Tournaments produced
- 96%
- Players who ranked up
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Our mission
Raising the ceiling for Australian competitive play.
From our studio on Brunswick Street we treat gaming like the sport it is — measurable, coachable, and worth broadcasting. Every rank climb, every clean production, every millisecond of server uptime is data we obsess over so players can focus on the game.
Server uptime99.98%
Avg. match latency12ms
Days a week open7
What we do
Four services, one competitive edge.
Bookable in-studio at Fitzroy or remotely across Australia. Prices in AUD, GST included.
Tournament Production
End-to-end LAN and online event delivery: brackets, casting, overlays, and a multi-camera broadcast desk. Built for 16 to 512 competitors.
From A$3,500 / event
Custom Game Builds
We design and ship playable prototypes and full releases in Unity and Unreal — game jams, training sims, and studio titles delivered sprint by sprint.
From A$180 / dev hour
Community Platforms
Managed Discord infrastructure, ladder systems and low-latency matchmaking servers hosted in Sydney and Melbourne with 24/7 monitoring.
From A$240 / month
Case studies
Recent builds and broadcasts.
A selection of projects delivered from the Citadel over the last 18 months.
TournamentFitzroy Winter Clash
11.4k peak viewersA 256-player Valorant LAN staged across two weekends with a live broadcast desk and a A$20,000 prize pool.
CoachingCitadel Academy Cohort 04
+2 ranks avg.A 10-week structured bootcamp that lifted 22 amateur players an average of two full ranks before Oceanic qualifiers.
Game BuildNeon Ledger — arena prototype
9-week sprintA 6v6 objective shooter prototype built in Unreal 5, playtested with the Melbourne community and greenlit for full production.
PlatformSouthern Ladder
18k active playersA ranked matchmaking ladder for four Australian titles running on Sydney-hosted servers with sub-15ms regional latency.
The roster
The people inside the Citadel.
Hover a card to read their story.
Former Oceanic Pro League analyst. Marcus has logged over 1,800 coaching hours and specialises in mid-lane macro and mental resets.
Marcus Tran
Head Coach
Priya runs the production desk. She has directed 30+ live events and built the studio’s multi-camera overlay pipeline from scratch.
Priya Nadar
Broadcast Director
Unreal and Unity veteran with a decade in Melbourne studios. Jesse leads prototyping and turns napkin ideas into playable builds fast.
Jesse Okafor
Lead Game Developer
Hana keeps the servers green and the Discords healthy, managing matchmaking infrastructure and moderating a community of 18,000.
Hana Kimura
Community & Infra Lead
Player voices
What the community says.
Six weeks with Marcus and I climbed from Gold to Diamond. The VOD reviews caught mistakes I never would have seen myself.
The Citadel produced our university LAN and it looked like a national broadcast. Overlays, casting, zero downtime — genuinely pro.
Their team shipped our arena prototype in nine weeks. Communication every sprint, and the build actually played the way we pitched it.
Southern Ladder finally gave us low-ping ranked play in Australia. Matchmaking is fast and the servers never drop mid-game.
Get in touch
Book the Citadel.
Tell us what you’re training for or building. We reply within one business day.