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ESL UK and Varsity Games have announced Derby Series Leicester, a university team show match that gives students a chance to do everything.  The event will see Leicester University face off against De Montfort University in League of Legends, but the real interesting part of this is that students will …

Ginx has announced that its eSports TV Channel is available in Israel through Partner’s 4GTV app.  The channel is currently available in the app, but will also launch on Partner’s TV service in the next few months, meaning that millions of people will have access to the channel.  Michiel Bakker, …

Ding It was once trying to be a competitor to Twitch, but in recent times has shifted its focus to on demand content. Now it’s senior management has created Level Up Media, which will be the parent company of Ding It, and will launch two new sites. The Ding It …

Stunlock Studios have announced the Enter the Arena Battlerite tournament, a $10,000 competition that will be hosted by Beyond the Summit.  A series of open and closed qualifiers will decide eight of the teams that make it to the main competition, with the first matches kicking off later this week. …

Bookmaker William Hill has announced that it will be taking bets on DreamHack Masters Las Vegas in Nevada this week.  William Hill’s Las Vegas division has already announced odds for the overall winner, with Astralis coming in as favourites at 3/1. Virtus pro come in a 7/2 while NaVi are …

Chris “Dubby” McFarland, the winner of the Madden Bowl competition, has been fined $3,000 by EA for inappropriate tweets.  During and immediately after the competition McFarland posted a number of Tweets, which have since been removed, that EA deemed to be unacceptable. As a result they have fined the played …

Riot Games has announced that it will hold the finals of the EU LCS spring split in Hamburg, Germany.  The finals will head to The Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg on April 22nd and 23rd, with the third place match taking place on the first day and the grand final taking …

Nintendo has confirmed that Splatoon 2 will feature LAN support and a spectator mode in an attempt to make it as easy as possible for people to run tournaments.  Up to 10 docked Switch consoles can be put on the same LAN network to allow for offline play, however observers …

DreamHack has announced that it will be running 10 Smash Bros tournaments this year, with Melee getting six and Smash 4 getting the other four.  Melee will make appearances at DreamHack DreamHack Austin, DreamHack Summer, DreamHack Atlanta, DreamHack Montreal, DreamHack Denver and DreamHack Winter.  Smash 4 (Wii U) will get …

Valve head honcho Gabe Newell has suggested that his company may be forced to hold The International outside of the US if travel restrictions get any worse. When speaking to Polygon, Newell said that if restrictions on who can enter the US get any worse the company may be forced …