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Some of the biggest names in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are heading to the SSE Arena in Wembley later this month to compete in the Esports Championship Series LAN finals. From the European side of the competition Fnatic, Astralis, Ninjas in Pyjamas and G2 Esports all qualified for the LAN. While …
Read More »ELEAGUE debuts on TBS, brings in over 500,000 viewers
ELEAGUE, the $1.4 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition, hit US TV network TBS for the first time on Friday and averaged 509,000 total viewers. According to ELEAGUE’S official stats, the show was the second most discussed program of the night on Twitter, with over 710 million impressions on the social …
Read More »TyLoo to miss ELEAGUE due to denial of visas
Chinese Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team TyLoo will not be attending ELEAGUE as the team has failed to secure US visas for its players. The Daily Dot first reported that the team had failed on its first attempt to get an American visa, as tournament organiser Turner failed to give the …
Read More »FaZe Clan leaves WESA just weeks after the organisation was revealed
After speculation last week, FaZe Clan has announced that it will no longer be a part of the WESA organisation. Rumours first started appearing last week that said the organisation was looking to back out of WESA, after being unhappy with certain areas. Today FaZe confirmed in a statement on …
Read More »ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch thanks to multi year deal
Turner and WME | IMG, the two companies running ELEAGUE, have partnered with Twitch in order to broadcast the upcoming competition on the streaming platform. The multi year deal means all the live matches from ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch along with on demand content. Each week will see …
Read More »FaZe Clan rumoured to be leaving WESA
FaZe Clan is set to leave the WESA organisation, just a week after the group was formally announced. Sources have informed IGN that FaZe will announce its intention to leave the World eSports Association as early as next week, having already told WESA commissioner Petro Fringuelli. This move will supposedly …
Read More »Schedule and groups announced for Turner’s ELEAGUE
The initial schedule and the first three groups for the upcoming ELEAGUE competition from US media giant Turner have been announced. The action will kick off on Tuesday May 24th, with Group A that features MLG Columbus champions Luminosity along with Team Liquid, Cloud9 and Renegades. Each week Tuesdays and …
Read More »CEVO Gfinity Season 9 LAN Finals kick off today
The CEVO Gfinity Season 9 LAN Finals begin later today at the Gfinity arena in London. The tournament will see some of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in the world battle it out for a share of the $125,000 prize pool, over the course of the next four days. …
Read More »NRG eSports bring in former Apple executive as new CEO
Andrew Pruett, former global head of publisher relations and business development for Apple’s mobile advertising division, has been unveiled as the new CEO of NRG eSports. After more than a decade working in advertising, sales, and business development Pruett will now manage the eSports organisation full time. Having worked at …
Read More »‘Chinese eBay’ Alibaba announces $5.5m eSports tournament for CS:GO, others
Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce site, has entered the eSports arena with a $5.5m tournament to be held through their sports subsidiary Ali Sports reportedly beginning this April. The World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) will feature a $1.5m CS:GO tournament, the same for Dota 2, with a $400,000 StarCraft II …
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