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UPDATE: SK have confirmed the switch, and have confirmed that Ricardo “fox” Pacheco will act as a stand in for both the ECS finals and the upcoming ELEAGUE Major. Original story: Lincoln “fnx” Lau has left SK Gaming, and according to a report from Jarek “DeKay” Lewis on Slingshot eSports …
Read More »NFL Media to work with EA on Madden eSports
EA has partnered with NFL Media in order to cover the Madden NFL Championship Series according to a report. Both theScore eSports and SportsBusiness Journal have confirmed that EA and NFL Media have formed a partnership to cover the $1 million competition. The partnership will see a new 30 minute …
Read More »Longzhu Gaming sign PraY and GorillA
Longzhu Gaming has signed both Kim "PraY" Jong-in and Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon, who formerly played for the ROX Tigers. Both players have joined the organisation, which comes as somewhat of a surprise after Longzhu had a disappointing 2016. However just last week the team was purchased by one of the …
Read More »Rouge signs Call of Duty team
Rogue has signed a Call of Duty team in preparation for the upcoming Call of Duty World League. The new Rogue roster, which is made up of Daniel "Miyagi" Ho, John "Johnny" Cookson, Alex "Examples" Hartlaub and Mike "Blfire" Glushenok, features three players that played together on Team Lethal. Johnny …
Read More »Cloud9 and Immortals make it into the ELEAGUE Major qualifier
Both Cloud9 and Immortals have made it to the qualifier for the ELEAGUE Major, making the competition incredibly stacked. Cloud9 and Immortals managed to make it to the qualifier after winning the Americas Minor competition. Muffin Lightning failed to win a game at the Minor leaving TSM, Immortals and C9 …
Read More »Call of Duty World League 2017 detailed
The Call of Duty World League will again return in 2017, with MLG unsurprisingly taking the lead. Throughout 2017 there will be more open LAN events than in 2016, with the CWL Las Vegas Open, the CWL Atlanta Open and the CWL Anaheim Open all already confirmed for North America. …
Read More »Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite announced
At the Playstation Experience over the weekend Capcom announced Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. The new title is due in 2017 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One and we already have our first look at the gameplay. Ryu, Mega Man X, Iron Man and Captain Marvel all appear in …
Read More »The weekend wrap up: 05/12/16
Here at eSports Pro we hate event spoilers, but also know that no one has the time to watch every major tournament every weekend. That’s why we are starting up the weekend wrap up, a short post every Monday that lists all of the winners from the previous weekend. What …
Read More »Watch Hearthstone pro Cong “StrifeCro” Shu go Global Rallycross racing
Here’s something fun to do while you wait for that clock to hit 5pm and the weekend to officially start. Red Bull has released the 2nd episode of its Away From Keyboard series with StrifeCro going racing. StrifeCro is of course a Hearthstone player for Cloud9, but for this episode …
Read More »Echo Fox signs Looper
North American LCS team Echo Fox has signed former League of Legends world champion Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok for its 2017 roster. The announcement was made over on Yahoo eSports, where they revealed that the former member of the world championship winning Samsung White team would be heading to the NA …
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