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Both Robin “flusha” Rönnquist and Jesper “JW” Wecksell are set to reunite with their former Fnatic teammates to recreate the roster that dominated CS:GO for months. A report from Slingshot eSports states that flusha and JW will join forces with Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer, Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson and Dennis “Dennis” Edman …
Read More »Dutch Eredivisie league creates FIFA 17 Ultimate Team competition
The top Dutch football league, Eredivisie, has announced plans to launch a FIFA 17 Ultimate Team league known as the E-Divisie. The league will kick off on February 6th, with all 18 Eredivisie clubs fielding a player in the competition. Seventeen rounds of games later and the winner will be …
Read More »SLIVER.tv signs deal with DreamHack and ESL to stream events in VR
SLIVER.tv has announced a new deal with both ESL and DreamHack that will see them stream 14 events from the organisers in virtual reality this year. The deal will see the company offer VR streams for the following events in 2017: DreamHack Masters Vegas, DreamHack Masters (unconfirmed location), DreamHack ASTRO …
Read More »The talent lineup for the Gfinity London CWL event has been announced
Gfinity has revealed the broadcast talent that it is bringing over to cast, host and analyse the Call of Duty World League event it is holding at the end of the month. The talent line up for Gfinity London is made up of: Alan ‘Bricetacular’ Brice, Oliver ‘ReL’ Whitfield, Philip …
Read More »EU LCS caster Richard “Pulse” Kam moves to cast the LPL
Richard "Pulse" Kam, a member of the EU LCS casting team, has announced that he is leaving Europe to cast the LPL. In a lengthy statement on Facebook Pulse revealed that he wanted to cast for a different audience and give the EU LCS viewers a break from his work. …
Read More »NA LCS Spring Split finals to take place in Vancouver
Riot has announced that the NA LCS Spring Finals weekend will be held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver this April. Day one will be on April 22nd and will feature the third place match between the two teams that lost in the semi finals. Day two will be on …
Read More »Gfinity London Call of Duty World League event is now four days long
Gfinity has announced that it has added an extra two days to its Gfinity London CWL event, making the competition a four day tournament. The event will now start on Thursday January 26th and will run until Sunday January 29th. This is thanks to the new format for the event. …
Read More »Casting studio Room on Fire releases first CS:GO documentary
Room on Fire, the casting studio best known for its work in CS:GO, has released its first documentary titled #CSGreatestGames Episode 1: "Boostgate". The 37 minute film, which can be seen at the bottom of this page, takes a look at the infamous match back in 2014 between Fnatic and …
Read More »Everything you need to know about the EU LCS Spring Split 2017
After a lengthy off season break that saw Riot bring in massive changes not only into League of Legends itself, but also its major leagues around the world, the EU LCS is finally ready to return. The ten teams are locked in, the new format has been decided and almost …
Read More »Overwatch finally adds floating health bars in spectator mode
Overwatch has been hailed as the next major eSport, but still has a major problem when it comes to watching the game thanks to its chaotic nature. However Blizzard is trying to fix that and the first step is to implement third person health bars. When spectating a game health …
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