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Team Dignitas has announced that it has signed both Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and Lee “Chaser” Sang-hyun. Both players will play for the team in the 2017 North American LCS Spring Split, pending Riot’s approval. Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho will be the team’s top laner, and is regarded as one of the …
Read More »MLG Las Vegas to be streamed on YouTube and MLGTV, no sign of Twitch
MLG has announced that it has partnered with YouTube to broadcast the MLG Las Vegas Call of Duty and Overwatch tournament this weekend. Matches, news, and analysis from the event will be shown on the MLG YouTube channel throughout the weekend, along with a stream on the MLG EVE player …
Read More »PSG announce League of Legends roster
Paris Saint-Germain has announced its starting roster for the upcoming EU Challenger Series split. The team will feature Etienne "Steve" Michels in the top lane, Thomas "Kirei" Yuen in the Jungle, Jin "Blanc" Seong-min in mid, Hampus "sprattel" Mikael Abrahamsson as the support and Na "Pilot" Woo-hyung as the AD …
Read More »NA LCS prize pool increased, relegation tweaked
Riot Games has revealed the changes coming to the North American LCS in 2017, and there isn’t all that much different. The big talking point in that relegation has been tweaked, just like in Europe, so that only the bottom two teams will have to play in the promotion tournament. …
Read More »EU LCS goes to best of threes, has a new group stage format
Riot Games has announced the new format and broadcast schedule for the European LCS in 2017. The big news is that after just one split playing best of twos the EU LCS will now transition to best of threes, which the NA LCS tried out last year. Riot said that …
Read More »Overwatch’s holiday event now live
As the year draws to a close everyone is looking head to the holidays, but for those that want to get into the christmas spirit right now you can jump into Overwatch, with its new holiday event. The Winter Wonderland event sees a ton of new skins and cosmetics introduced, …
Read More »Battlerite gets new champion
Battlerite is getting a new champion today in the form of Pestilus aka “Lord of the Swarm”. The new champion is a part of the new massive winter update, which includes the new ranking system with leagues and divisions, making competitive play a lot easier. “Pestilus aka “Lord of the …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 2: Overwatch
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s new store in London while today he jumps into Overwatch. Fnatic certainly isn’t a stranger to supporting new games early on, but …
Read More »Try out Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare free this weekend
With the Call of Duty competitive season about to kick off with MLG Las Vegas Activision is letting those who are yet to buy Infinite Warfare play for free. Between 6pm (UK time) on December 15th and 6pm on December 20th anyone will be able to download and play Call …
Read More »ESL One New York returns to the Barclays Center until 2020
ESL has announced that it will run a tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the next four years. ESL One New York will return on September 16th and 17th 2017, and then will come back again in 2018, 2019 and 2020, although exact dates for those events are …
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