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ELEAGUE has partnered with FACEIT to host the Overwatch Open, which has a massive $300,000 prize pool. The competition will feature an online portion for both the European league and the American league, with the top performers heading to Turner Studios’ ELEAGUE arena in Atlanta for the regional finals and …
Read More »ESL hosting Heroes of the Storm regional at gamescom
ESL will host the European Heroes of the Storm Fall Regional at gamescom in August. The competition will take place on the ESL main stage between August 17th and 19th. $100,000 is on the line, along with a spot at the Fall Championship that will be held at BlizzCon 2016. …
Read More »Fnatic finally sign an Overwatch team
Fnatic have finally entered the Overwatch scene, after much speculation, by signing a mostly American roster. The new team includes: Andr iddqd” Dahlstrm, Scott custa” Kennedy, Oliver Vonethil” Lager, Casey buds” McIlwaine, Warsi Faraaz Stoop” Waris, Matthew coolmatt69” Iorio and finally Robert Roflgator” Malecki, who will act as the team’s …
Read More »Crytek partners with ESL for Warface eSports
Crytek and ESL have partnered in order to run Warface eSports competitions. The free to play shooter from Crytek will become a part of ESL’s Go4 series, which sees many other games run weekly competitions with a monthly final. This will be the case for Warface when the Go4Warface tournament …
Read More »Sporting Lisbon enters eSports with top Portuguese FIFA player
Portugese football club Sporting Lisbon has entered the eSports world by signing top Portuguese FIFA player Francisco "Quinzas" Cruz. The 21 year old player has been in the FIFA scene since he was just 14, and became the youngest ever FIFA World Champion in 2011. Cruz is one of the …
Read More »EVO organising its first Japanese event
Fighting game tournament EVO is organising a spin off event known as EVO Japan. The competition will unsurprisingly take place in Japan, although no specific location or dates were revealed. More information on the event is set to be announced at the Tokyo Games Show, which takes place in September. …
Read More »More people watched EVO on Twitch than ESPN
EVO’s first ever broadcast on TV pulled in an average of 201,000 viewers, but that still wasn’t enough to beat Twitch’s concurrent numbers. The final of the Street Fighter V competition was broadcast on ESPN2 on Sunday evening as well as being streamed on Twitch. While ESPN2 averaged 201,000 viewers …
Read More »Building Clash Royale into an eSport
The big eSports of the world may be hogging almost all of the spotlight right now, especially with the likes of Counter-Strike jamboree ESL One Cologne and Dota world cup The International 6 dominating the summer tournament landscape, but quietly, a mobile revolution is building, and leading the charge is …
Read More »14 North American LCS pros say who inspired their careers
Professional League of Legends is still a reasonably young entity, but it’s been around long enough that a line of players have come through the game who have served as role models, reference points and sources of inspiration for the current batch of pros. Read more on Slingshot eSports >>>
Read More »I Watched the World’s Biggest Fighting Game Event at an eSports Bar
Competitive gamers from around the world were in Las Vegas over the weekend for the Evolution Championship Series (EVO), the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, competing in titles like Mortal Kombat XL, Killer Instinct and Street Fighter V. On Saturday, I found myself slouched over a barstool at …
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