SwitchUp Plymouth

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building on June 21st from 7pm-10pm!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens this Friday (June 7) in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

As this hangout is close the end of the year we ask that you "purchase" a free ticket so we know how many people to expect.

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We will also be providing retro consoles and games, inlcuding the Wii, Gamecube, PlayStation 2 and more!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

We're doing more litterpicking this coming session (Friday May 24)!
Last time we had a massive turnout and are super grateful, and this week we need six new volunteers who did not partake last time on top of anyone else who wants to join! While this is taking place, we will be having our regular sessions running in Rolle 101 & 102 from & - 10pm as per usual.
Every 15 minutes of volunteering completed and logged on the UPSU website (https://www.upsu.com/volunteer/) counts as one raffle ticket towards our raffle for three £10 gift cards, which will be given out at the end of the academic year, as well as everyone receiving a certificate to show you took part.
As well as looking great on your CV, UPSU also provide rewards for volunteers that hit certain milestones, including free hot drinks, a custom mug, pin and more!
You will also receive a volunteer role on our discord server to show you took part!
If you want to know more, please reach out!

It's nearly discovery week! Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 2pm-5pm! Tickets can be found on the UPSU website but don't worry, they're entirely free!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along! We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help.

We hope to see you there!

As part of a Student Union initiative, for the third time we are banning the use of single-use plastics (such as plastic bottles, food packaging, etc.) for this Friday (17th May). Instead, please feel free to bring reusable water bottles, cans, paper-packaged items, and other eco-friendly packaging alternatives!

Wii Walk (or take any other form of sustainable transport) to SwitchUP! For this weeks session on Friday 17th May (and all our sessions) we are encouraging our members to take some form of sustainable transport to attend this session! This may be via walking, bus, train, or cycling! As you know, we have been trying our hardest to partake in sustainable practices this year, and we're very proud of what we've done; thank you all for supporting our cause and getting involved with us!

We have a SwitchUP! feedback form we'd be very grateful for all our members to fill out! Not only does it give us some feedback on how we're doing, it will be a big determiner in what we do next year and how much we do (i.e. pub hangouts, tournament games choices, what we do on the Friday sessions, what days we do stuff on and lots more)! There are only 6 mandatory tick box questions, so if you don't want to say much you don't have to! You can find the feedback form through this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzrLYv0y87TxYa2-K1kCc3NeW2mEyTr3chJZm8WMzLa_X3Mw/viewform

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We have a range of games to play, including but not limited to classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Paty Superstars and Animal Crossing, as well as the Indie SwitchUP classics of Boomerang-Fu, Overcooked, Rubber Bandits and Golf with Friends. There’s something for everyone!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

As part of a Student Union initiative, for the second time we are banning the use of single-use plastics (such as plastic bottles, food packaging, etc.) for this Friday (10th May). Instead, please feel free to bring reusable water bottles, cans, paper-packaged items, and other eco-friendly packaging alternatives!

Come join us for some gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

In this hangout we will be providing a number of consoles, including but not limited to the Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Wii U. Lots of us will be bringing DS’s too! We will also be providing a number of games, including guitar hero and its drumkit, guitars and microphones, as well as all the Wii classics, from Wii Sports to Wii Party to Super Smash Bros.

Will we also have our normal Switch gaming setup if anyone is fancying that.

As always, no Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one and you’re wanting to play it, please bring it along!

There’s plenty of seating available for local wireless fun or if you’re just wanting a spot to hang out and chill playing Zelda.

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

And here they are! SwitchUP 2023/2024's finalists! Take them in, as any one of them could be crowned champion!

Tune in tomorrow in Rolle 101 & 102 at 7pm to watch the finals live in person or on our Twitch!

Finally, the Overcooked Tournament results! This tallies the final results from all of the points from the whole year! Very poetic that our mighty Chair Ellie, topped the leaderboard for the tournaments this year.

Stay tuned to find out who our finalists are later on today!

Duck Hunters are here! With a three-way tie for 3rd place it was a most exciting event, and I'm sure everyone who took part had fun! The results for the Overcooked tournament will released at 3pm and then the participants for the Finals on Friday will be revealed at 5pm today with a post about each finalist!

The first of the three remaining tournaments to be released! (Yeah it was released yesterday, but it was pointed out that I accidentally posted everyone's government names in the results which have now been taken down).

The Animal Crossing results will be released as well now.

Come join us for our end-of-year tournament finale from 7pm-10pm in our usual Rolle 101 & 102 rooms (we are no longer in the Little Room)! The session will begin with some nice chill hang-out time including some inclusive large group games like 1-2 Switch and Just Dance before we get to the main event of the evening, which is.........

The finals of our year-long tournament starting at 8pm! The finals will include the members who reached the top 8 positions on the leaderboard of our year-long tournament. Unlike our usual tournaments, this finale will consist of 4 different games, most of which have yet to be seen at SwitchUP this year. The tournament will start with Runbow, an 8-player speedrunning platformer, and we will whittle our finalists down to only 2, with 2 players being eliminated from each round. Our 6-player round will be a newcomer game to SwitchUP Bomberman, played in its free-for-all battle mode; only 4 can move onto the penultimate round. Raving Rabbids will be our 4-player round, and all is at stake to determine who will be heading into the 1v1 round. There is no game more worthy of being SwitchUP's 2023/24 tournament final than Wii Play, the true pinnacle of 1v1 competition. For those not participating, feel free to spectate, cheering on your favourite to win, or if you're not interested, feel free to keep playing games on the side as if it is a casual hang-out session.

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

Come join us for our tournament finale from 7pm-10pm in Rolle 101 & 102! The session will begin with some nice chill hang-out time including some inclusive large group games like 1-2 Switch and Just Dance before we get to the main event of the evening, which is.........

The finals of our year-long tournament starting at 8pm! The finals will include the members who reached the top 8 positions on the leaderboard of our year-long tournament. Unlike our usual tournaments, this finale will consist of 4 different games, most of which have yet to be seen at SwitchUP this year. The tournament will start with Runbow, an 8-player speedrunning platformer, and we will whittle our finalists down to only 2, with 2 players being eliminated from each round. Our 6-player round will be the SwitchUP classic, Bomberman, played in its fullest explosive capabilities of 6 players; only 4 can move onto the penultimate round. Raving Rabbids will be our 4-player round, and all is at stake to determine who will be heading into the 1v1 round. There is no game more worthy of being SwitchUP's 2023/24 tournament final than Wii Play, the true pinnacle of 1v1 competition. For those not participating, feel free to spectate, cheering on your favourite to win, or if you're not interested, feel free to keep playing games on the side as if it is a casual hang-out session.

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

Come join us for our end-of-year finale from 6pm-9pm in the SU Little Room! The session will begin with some nice chill hang-out time including some inclusive large group games like 1-2 Switch and Just Dance before we get to the main event of the evening, which is.........

The finals of our year-long tournament starting at 7pm! The finals will include the members who reached the top 8 positions on the leaderboard of our year-long tournament. Unlike our usual tournaments, this finale will consist of 4 different games, most of which have yet to be seen at SwitchUP this year. The tournament will start with Runbow, an 8-player speedrunning platformer, and we will whittle our finalists down to only 2, with 2 players being eliminated from each round. Our 6-player round will be the SwitchUP classic, Bomberman, played in its fullest explosive capabilities of 6 players; only 4 can move onto the penultimate round. Raving Rabbids will be our 4-player round, and all is at stake to determine who will be heading into the 1v1 round. There is no game more worthy of being SwitchUP's 2023/24 tournament final than Wii Play, the true pinnacle of 1v1 competition. For those not participating, feel free to spectate, cheering on your favourite to win, or if you're not interested, feel free to keep playing games on the side as if it is a casual hang-out session.

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!

We are making some SwitchUP hoodies! There are up for sale on our UPSU website for £30 each. We need to know your size and what name you would like on your hoodie if you want one at all. We will be putting these in as a mass order so once the site stops selling them on May 22nd we will be putting the order in. Any queries then please don't hesitate to message and ask!

What's better than a regular 3 hour long SwitchUP social? A SwitchUP event that lasts an entire 24 hours! You have read that correctly. We are doing our first ever session that will last a whole 24 hours. We will be in person and on twitch from Friday 26th April 7pm until Saturday 27th April 7pm. This event will be happening within Thomas Pitts Hall. There will be a range of switch games for everyone to partake in on this day too! Following this announcement, a schedule will be posted detailing what will be happening when. It will be updated as the week goes along so please check back and see what we will be doing. Any suggestions anyone has as to what games we should play please let us know!

This event is a charity fundraiser for 'Get Well Gamers'. This is a charity donates games and consoles to people who are in hospitals, hospice or any other healthcare setting. Please feel free to donate in person or online at: https://www.justgiving.com/page/switchup-plymouth-1713705798667?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fswitchup-plymouth-1713705798667&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

We hope you will all join us in raising money for this amazing cause!

We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting another Uni v Uni on the 20th April at 3pm. This time we be battling Staffordshire Uni Mario Kart society!

Now I know what you're thinking, "they're a Mario Kart society, they're specialists! They're gonna beat us no sweat!!!", and yes your thoughts might be true. However, in the eyes of SwitchUP a challenge is more fun than a slaughter, but we will not stand without fighting back and we will prove that we have the best Mario Kart players!

This tournament will take place once again in the 6v6 clan war format in which we will race 12 tracks with the total points of each team determining the victor!

In term 3 SwitchUP will be helping to CleanUP the city with the help of UPSU community volunteering! If any SwitchUP members interested could fill out this form: https://forms.gle/rw92JdYhhTR5iDnU6

Every 15 minutes of volunteering completed and logged on the UPSU website (https://www.upsu.com/volunteer/) counts as one raffle ticket towards our raffle for three £10 gift cards, which will be given out at the end of the academic year, as well as everyone receiving a certificate to show you took part.

As well as looking great on your CV, UPSU also provide rewards for volunteers that hit certain milestones, including free hot drinks, a custom mug, pin and more!

You will also receive a volunteer role on our discord server to show you took part!

SwitchUP is aiming to have 25 members take part, and if you don’t mind sparing some time to help us make this happen, we would be really grateful!

Happy Autism Acceptance Month from us at SwitchUP! Autism Acceptance Month is a time to raise awareness about Autism, the misconceptions around it, and the discrimination autistic people face, while also celebrating positive contributions of autistic people to our society.

You can find more information at: https://www.autismtogether.co.uk/autism-acceptance-month/
https://www.inclusiveemployers.co.uk/awareness-day/autism-acceptance-month/

The Celebrating Success Awards is your chance to give recognition to societies and volunteers for all the hard work they have done this year! Voting closes on Monday 8th April, and you can make your nominations on the UPSU website at https://www.upsu.com/societies/celebrate-success/

As part of a Student Union initiative, we are banning the use of single-use plastics (such as plastic bottles, food packaging, etc.) for the next session on Friday 22nd of March. Instead, please feel free to bring reusable water bottles, cans, paper-packaged items, and other eco-friendly packaging alternatives!

We have a Union Rooms Spoons pub social this Tuesday (drinking is not required), and there is also an Indie Tuesday discount link in ⁠our Discord!

Some of us will be arriving at 7, but if anyone else wants to arrive earlier to save a table please do! 🙏

As always this event is more casual and there isn't any responsibility on the committee to run anything, however, it does look like there will be a decent amount of committee in attendance for this one.

We hope to see you there!

Come join us for some Nintendo Switch gaming on the big screens in the Rolle Building from 7pm-10pm!

No Switch needed, we have our own SwitchUP Switch and plenty of controllers, but if you do have one, please bring it along!

We have access to lots of big screens and smaller TVs, so feel free to bring docks along too.

Overcooked 2 will be run as a 2v2 competition, so please bring a friend or join up with other members to create your unstoppable cooking duo. Dash, slice, throw, bake and serve your meals a multitude of levels from floating kitchens to intergalactic food service. Will you make sure your team wins by simply being the best chefs in the room, or will you enact plots of espionage and steal ingrediants from your competitors, knock them off course, or even steal entirely completed dishes?! Make sure to stick around as things boil over into a flavourful final match between the best chefs of SwitchUP!

There will be a prize for first place, and everyone will receive points depending on their placement in our Year Long Nintendo Switch Tournament. This tournament will have big prizes at the end of year for top 3, as well as category prizes for "Best Teamwork", "Worst Luck", "Smartest Play". So even if you don't like the sound of this tournament there will plenty more, ranging from FFA to teams to mechanical to non-mechanical, and it could work in your favour to participate anyway to gain points.

If you’re not interested in participating still feel free to come along, we will make sure there's space to chill and play other games in an adjoining room, though you're also welcome to watch!

We aim to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, so if you have any worries about accessibility or are just feeling nervous about getting involved get in contact with us via our social media/email and we’ll do our best to help!

Snacks and drinks are welcome as long as everything is left clean and tidy, we hope to see you there!