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The top Dutch football league, Eredivisie, has announced plans to launch a FIFA 17 Ultimate Team league known as the E-Divisie. The league will kick off on February 6th, with all 18 Eredivisie clubs fielding a player in the competition. Seventeen rounds of games later and the winner will be …
Read More »SLIVER.tv signs deal with DreamHack and ESL to stream events in VR
SLIVER.tv has announced a new deal with both ESL and DreamHack that will see them stream 14 events from the organisers in virtual reality this year. The deal will see the company offer VR streams for the following events in 2017: DreamHack Masters Vegas, DreamHack Masters (unconfirmed location), DreamHack ASTRO …
Read More »The talent lineup for the Gfinity London CWL event has been announced
Gfinity has revealed the broadcast talent that it is bringing over to cast, host and analyse the Call of Duty World League event it is holding at the end of the month. The talent line up for Gfinity London is made up of: Alan ‘Bricetacular’ Brice, Oliver ‘ReL’ Whitfield, Philip …
Read More »NA LCS Spring Split finals to take place in Vancouver
Riot has announced that the NA LCS Spring Finals weekend will be held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver this April. Day one will be on April 22nd and will feature the third place match between the two teams that lost in the semi finals. Day two will be on …
Read More »Gfinity London Call of Duty World League event is now four days long
Gfinity has announced that it has added an extra two days to its Gfinity London CWL event, making the competition a four day tournament. The event will now start on Thursday January 26th and will run until Sunday January 29th. This is thanks to the new format for the event. …
Read More »Everything you need to know about the EU LCS Spring Split 2017
After a lengthy off season break that saw Riot bring in massive changes not only into League of Legends itself, but also its major leagues around the world, the EU LCS is finally ready to return. The ten teams are locked in, the new format has been decided and almost …
Read More »Dota Pit bracket revealed, DC vs Secret headline the opening round
The first round of matchups for the upcoming Dota Pit tournament have been announced and some big names are going to be heading to the lower bracket. The tournament is due to start in Split, Croatia, on Friday January 20th, and now we know what matchups we will be seeing …
Read More »Dota Asia Championship qualifiers announced
The qualifiers for the Dota Asia Championship have been revealed, with the format and participants being announced. The qualifiers will be split into four regions, as the China qualifiers have already been played. North America, Europe, SEA and CIS will all get one slot at the tournament with eight teams …
Read More »The weekend wrap up: 16/01/2017
Here at eSports Pro we hate event spoilers, but also know that no one has the time to watch every major tournament every weekend. That’s why we are starting up the weekend wrap up, a short post every Monday that lists all of the winners from the previous weekend. In …
Read More »ESL Pro League to be streamed on YouTube
ESL has confirmed rumours that the ESL Pro League Season 5 and 6 will be streamed exclusively on YouTube. The deal was rumoured earlier in the week, and has now been confirmed. This means that the english language stream of the tournament will not be available on Twitch at all. …
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