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ELEAGUE has announced that its next competition will feature Street Fighter V. The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational will see 32 of the best Street Fighter V players head to the ELEAGUE studio in Atlanta to battle it out for one of the larger prize pools in the game’s history. …
Read More »ELEAGUE Major final had 3.6 million unique viewers
ELEAGUE has revealed the official viewing stats for the final of the ELEAGUE Major and unsurprisingly it’s a pretty big number. The total viewer reach of the ELEAGUE final was 3.6 million viewers across all platforms including the TBS TV broadcast. This also included 1.8 million people who were first …
Read More »Official TV ratings come in for the ELEAGE Major
The ELEAGUE Major final was broadcast live on TBS over in the States this past weekend, and now the official TV numbers have come in. According to stats from ShowBuzzDaily the competition hit and average of 228,000 concurrent viewers during the broadcast. This certainly wasn’t the biggest sporting event of …
Read More »ELEAGUE Major grand finals becomes first single Twitch stream to break a million viewers
Over the weekend we saw the final of the ELEAGUE Major, and it turns out a lot of other people did as well, as the stream ended up breaking records. The english language stream for the final day broke the record for the most number of concurrent viewers on a …
Read More »The quarter final match ups for the ELEAGUE Major have been revealed
Overnight the group stage of the ELEAGE Major concluded, meaning we now know the eight teams that will be fighting it out in the knockout stage of the competition this weekend. NaVi, Virtus Pro, Fnatic, SK Gaming, Gambit eSports, FaZe Clan, Astralis and North all made it to the top …
Read More »G FUEL buys ELEAGUE Arena naming rights
ELEAGUE and G FUEL have entered an official marketing partnership that will see the ELEAGUE Arena renamed. The iconic Atlanta based studio will now be called the G FUEL ELEAGUE Arena, and G FUEL is now the official energy drink of ELEAGUE. G FUEL will be promoted across all of …
Read More »ELEAGUE major to feature swiss format, first round matches revealed
The first round of matches for the ELEAGUE CS:GO Major have been revealed, with more than a few tasty matchups to kick things off. The headline matchup is between ELEAGUE Season One champions Virtus Pro and ELEAGUE Season Two champions OpTic Gaming. Both teams will be looking to get off …
Read More »Dell becomes ELEAGUE’s exclusive hardware partner
Dell has signed on as ELEAGUE’s new hardware partner and becomes the latest major company to sponsor the competition. ELEAGUE competitions will now use the Alienware Aurora with Dell 24-inch 144Hz gaming monitor, starting with the ELEAGUE Major at the end of this month. And of course you can expect …
Read More »Cloud9 and Immortals make it into the ELEAGUE Major qualifier
Both Cloud9 and Immortals have made it to the qualifier for the ELEAGUE Major, making the competition incredibly stacked. Cloud9 and Immortals managed to make it to the qualifier after winning the Americas Minor competition. Muffin Lightning failed to win a game at the Minor leaving TSM, Immortals and C9 …
Read More »Echo Fox out, Muffin Lightning in at the ELEAGUE Americas Minor Championship
After news broke yesterday that the Echo Fox CS:GO team had broken up, ELEAGUE has now announced that the team has been replaced in the Americas Minor Championship. With both Shahzeb “ShahZam” Khan and Ronny “ryx” Bylicki officially leaving the Echo Fox organisation, and only Ryan “Freakazoid” Abadir confirming that …
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