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Registration for EVO, the largest fighting game event of the year, just closed with 5,065 people signing up for the Street Fighter V tournament. Co-founder of EVO, Joey Cuellar, tweeted out the official numbers for the event earlier today, showing that Street Fighter V has more competitors than both Super …
Read More »ESL adds high profile COO and VP of production
ESL has brought in two high profile executives to ramp up production” in its ever expanding studios. Yvette Martinez-Rea has been hired as the new Chief Operating Officer of ESL, having previously been Chief Operating Officer of Violet Grey. Prior to that she held multiple senior positions at Yahoo. My …
Read More »Twitch adds premium ‘cheering’ emotes as a way of supporting streamers
Cheering is the latest way to financially support your favourite Twitch streamers, by adding premium emotes to your chat messages. Bits emotes can be purchased in bundles of 100, 500,1500, 5000, 10000 and 25000, with 100 costing $1.40. The bigger bundle you purchase the bigger discount you get, so 25,000 …
Read More »US government clarifies position on eSports visas after petition hits 100,000 signatures
After a petition linked to William "Leffen" Hjelte’s denial of a US P-1 visa hit 100,000 signatures, the US government has issued a statement on whether or not eSports players are considered athletes. Earlier in the year the Free Leffen campaign was started in an attempt to help secure Leffen, …
Read More »FC Schalke 04 signs multiple FIFA players
After signing a League of Legends team last month German football club FC Schalke 04 has signed three FIFA players. The team is made up of Joshua Krone” Begehr, a former world champion, Mario Viska, who has seen success over in Germany and Cihan Yasarlar, who has been competing at …
Read More »WWE superstar Xavier Woods competes in Street Fighter V exhibition match at CEO
WWE superstar Xavier Woods competed against fellow pro wrestler Kenny Omega in a Street Fighter V exhibition match at CEO. It was Omega, who currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling, that took the victory but the two provided a show for those watching. The match was a first to …
Read More »FaZe Clan signs Overwatch team
FaZe Clan has signed an Overwatch team made up of former Quake and Counter-Strike pros, as well as top Overwatch talent. The roster, which has come together for the first time under the org, includes Sabian CLAMP” Hayblum, Daniel fRoD” Montaner, Kevin Wonderfuls” Nguyen, Lucas mendokusaii” Hakansson, Marcel Veineless” Lehmann …
Read More »Luminosity’s coldzera on his AWP play at MLG Columbus: "It was lucky"
In an interview with MCV at the ECS finals, Luminosity player Marcelo "coldzera" David said his iconic AWP play at the last major was lucky”. The play saw the Brazilian take down four members of Team Liquid with just three bullets from his AWP sniper rifle, and turn a game …
Read More »No Diggity Dota 2 team signed by Escape Gaming days before TI6 qualifiers
Escape Gaming has signed the No Diggity Dota 2 team, just days after the squad was invited to the European qualifier for The International 6. No Diggity has been playing together for some months now, placing fourth at DreamLeague and qualifying for events such as EPICENTER. The team’s strong performances …
Read More »Leffen to miss CEO, US return pushed back to EVO
William "Leffen" Hjelte has dropped out of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament at Community Effort Orlando (CEO) due to personal reasons. The Smash Bros star tweeted earlier in the week that he will not be at CEO but will still take part at EVO next month. The news …
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