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DreamHack has announced that it will continue its partnership with Twitch for the ninth year running. The renewed agreement will mean that events and eSports competitions at the computer festival will continue to be streamed on Twitch throughout 2017. This continues the deal established back in 2009 between DreamHack and …
Read More »Epicenter: Moscow to feature DOTA 2 tournament in June
Epic Esports Events has announced that EPICENTER: Moscow will feature the organiser’s second DOTA 2 tournament in June later this year. Qualifiers will begin in May, when teams throughout Europe, the CIS, North America, China and other regions will compete for a spot in the tournament. The group stage will …
Read More »Next CS:GO Major to be hosted by PGL in Krakow, Poland
The tournament organisers PGL have been chosen to host the next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major, with the live finals set to take place in the Tauron Arena in Krakow, Poland. Global qualifiers will run across multiple regions throughout June, before all 16 finalists convene in Poland to compete for a …
Read More »Blizzard hire TJ Sanders for Hearthstone eSports team
Blizzard has hired Hearthstone caster and personality, TJ Sanders, to join the game’s eSports Broadcasting and Production team. The jovial and light-hearted commentator has been a regular on the casting desk of multiple Hearthstone tournaments as of late, including the recently concluded ESL Trinity Series. Sanders has also been involved …
Read More »MTV to broadcast India’s first eSports league
India’s first eSports league, UCypher, is set to be broadcast on MTV, confirms investor and organiser, Ronnie Screwvala. It was announced in January that Screwvala, an Indian media and entertainment entrepreneur, had plans to invest around $15 million in setting up an eSports league in the country through his company, …
Read More »CD Projekt RED and ESL partner for GWENT Challenger tournament
Improbably popular Witcher 3 distraction, GWENT, is set to join the world of eSports when CD Projekt RED and ESL partner up to host the GWENT Challenger tournament. The qualifiers will kick off this April, with an open tournament featuring 512 of the top ranked players from the game’s leaderboards. …
Read More »First details of Evo Japan revealed
The first details of the Evo Japan event that was first announced last year have been revealed, and it seems we have a while longer to wait. The Evo Japan fighting game tournament will not take place until 2018, when it will hit the Akihabara UDX event center in Tokyo. …
Read More »Riot and MLB’s new LoL streaming platform coming “soon”
At the end of last year Riot and BAMTech, an offshoot of MLB, agreed a reported $350 million broadcast rights deal for League of Legends eSports. Since then we have heard very little, but according to Riot’s co-head of esports Jarred Kennedy, a new streaming service for LoL eSports is …
Read More »IEM Katowice becomes the biggest eSports event ever
ESL has announced that the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event was the biggest eSports event in history. 173,000 people attended the event over the two weekends, which is well above any other eSports event, while online broadcasts reached more than 46 million unique online viewers, a 35% growth from last …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege Pro League returns for year 2
Ubisoft has announced the return of the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League competition for its second year. This year there is a few changes to the competition, with the most notable being the switch to PC only. In the first year the Pro League featured both a PC and Xbox …
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