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ESL One New York will feature a $75,000 Street Fighter V competition alongside the already announced CS:GO tournament. The Brooklyn Beatdown competition will hit the Barclays Center on October 1st and 2nd, and can host up to 1,024 players, with anyone being able to register for just $10. However to …
Read More »Manchester United and Fnatic competing to sign eSports team
Former Premier League champions Manchester United are reportedly eying an inroad into the eSports scene. eSports News UK reports that United wish to sign an unnamed professional European Overwatch team who are currently signed with another organisation. Furthermore, eSports outfit Fnatic also have designs on signing the same group. The …
Read More »Team Secret and EG switch players, will have to go through open qualifiers for The International 6
After being knocked out of the Manila Major and coming joint last, both Team Secret and Evil Geniuses have made roster changes. Team Secret offlaner Saahil UNiVeRsE” Arora has left the team, seemingly heading back to Evil Geniuses, the team he played with at TI5, while EG’s offlaner, Kanishka BuLba” …
Read More »Turtle Beach continues eSports push by partnering with FaZe Clan
After partnering with OpTic Gaming last month Turtle Beach has now partnered with FaZe Clan. The American eSports organisation’s players will now use the new Turtle Beach Elite Pro headset and the Elite Pro Tactical Audio Controller at tournaments and when playing at home. The FaZe Call of Duty team …
Read More »NA LCS Summer Split final heads to Canada
Riot has announced that the finals of the NA LCS Summer Split will be held in Toronto, Canada on August 27th and 28th. The Air Canada Centre will host the event that will see the top teams from the NA LCS Summer Split battle it out to become split champions, …
Read More »$20,000 Call of Duty World League tournament taking place at the Gfinity Arena next month
Gfinity has announced the Gfinity CWL Summer Masters, a $20,000 Call of Duty tournament featuring the top teams from across Europe. The competition will take place at the Gfinity Arena in Fulham Broadway between July 1st and 3rd and will feature a mix of invited teams and those that make …
Read More »Gfinity set to host the Gillette Championship, a £15,000 PES tournament
Today Gfinity and Gillette have announced the Gillette Championship, a Pro Evolution Soccer tournament with a 15,000 prize pool. The competition will see the best players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 on PS4 battle it out across 24 qualifiers and a live finals that will be held in London. The …
Read More »Strategy card game Faeria gets monthly $3,000 tournaments
Upcoming strategy card game Faeria will have monthly tournaments where the best players will compete for a share of $3,000. Despite only being in early access developer Abrakam is already starting up a regular eSports scene with the new tournaments. Each month 32 players will compete for the $3,000 prize, …
Read More »ESL’s CS:GO Pro League Season 3 sees 44% growth
The third season of the ESL Pro League saw a peak year-on-year growth of over 44% for online content consumed, making it the most successful cycle to date for the competition. Viewership for the season broke records once again with more than 61 million online sessions throughout the nine week …
Read More »MVP Black, the best Heroes of the Storm team in the world may quit the game
MVP Balck, who are generally regarded as the best Heroes of the Storm team in the world, may leave the game at the end of the year. Team coach, Gwang Bok Kim, said in an interview with Korean eSports site DailyEsports that his team are not happy with multiple aspects …
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