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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 »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 »FACEIT co-founder: "There is no need for exclusivity, just better organization and the best products will emerge naturally."
It is fair to say that the CS:GO scene is experiencing somewhat of a boom right now. ELeague is bringing Valve’s shooter to TV, the majors have $1 million on the line and the World Esports Association is trying to regulate it all. But another key player in this boom …
Read More »Why Haven’t American Football Teams Jumped on the Esports Bandwagon?
With the news that the Spanish soccer club Valencia CF is entering esports, marking the fourth such organization to do so, one may wonder why their North American athletic counterparts are not doing the same thing? Read more on PvP Live >>>
Read More »The Truth About E League Viewership
We’ve now completed Week 2 in Turner’s grand experiment into eSports. Immediately after launch there were the standard, un-investigated headlines like E League Debut Should Have Other Professional Sports Concerned”. As expected the headlines don’t come close to telling the full story. If that works for you, stop now. If …
Read More »Does Hearthstone need a rulebook?
More than 50 million people played Hearthstone in May, according to Blizzard. That’s impressive, given that none of them have ever read the rules for Hearthstone—because you can’t. There’s no rulebook for the wildly popular digital card game. Should there be? Read more on Daily Dot >>>
Read More »Genvid Technologies aims to create ‘revolutionary esports broadcasts’
Genvid Technologies is coming out of stealth today with the ambition of creating revolutionary esports broadcasts.” It wants to make esports broadcasts more compelling to watch, bringing multiple camera angles and interactivity into the live streams of furious game matches. Read more on Venturebeat >>>
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 …
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