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Read More »Pro Sports Bets on Video Gamers for Growth
Major league sports teams are recruiting a new kind of player: one who can score with a joystick. In the past two months, Manchester City and West Ham United, two of the top English Premier League soccer teams, have signed professional video gamers to represent the clubs when playing FIFA, …
Read More »Hungrybox’s new golden legacy at Evo
A defining chapter in Team Liquid’s Juan "Hungrybox" DeBiedma’s legacy was about to be written. He was considered a "god" of Super Smash Bros. Melee but never the best—a great player who was never able to win the big one at the Evolution Championship Series (Evo). When Melee first came …
Read More »Opinion: Can Valve realign the ecosystem of esports gambling?
The past few months have seen a meaningful surge in coverage surrounding the betting side of the esports industry, and it hasn’t been pretty. Back in April, Bloomberg published a significant investigative piece detailing the scope of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin betting marketplace and many of the issues stemming …
Read More »ZeRo: "The issue with Evo is that we feel as a community that they don’t care about us as other titles."
Gonzalo ZeRo” Barrios is the most famous name in Smash 4, and he’s been a topic of conversation even more than usual in recent months. ZeRo, the king of Smash 4, is best known for his winning streak of more than 50 tournaments. But 2016 has been a struggle at …
Read More »The true cost of Counter-Strike skin gambling
When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gamblers talk about the money they’ve lost, their stories follow a familiar pattern. The CS: GO player says he (usually we’re talking about a young man or a boy) developed an interest in collecting virtual in-game items, known as skins. He was also attracted to professional …
Read More »As North American League thrives with new best-of-3 format, will Europe follow?
When Riot Games announced the League Championship Series in 2012, bringing a fully professional league run by the company to North America and Europe, amongst the many other decisions made one that probably did not attract much attention at the time: the regular season would be made up of single-game …
Read More »Capcom Cup prize pool to be crowd funded
The prize pool for the Capcom Cup will be partially crowd funded with in game Street Fighter V items. At EVO Capcom announced the new Capcom Pro Tour Premier Package DLC for Street Fighter V, which includes a new stage and exclusive costumes. A percentage of each sale will go …
Read More »Dota 2 gets weekend tournaments for everyone to enter
Valve has added weekend tournaments to Dota 2, allowing everyone to take part in some competitive action. The Summer Battle Cup season will feature new tournaments every Saturday at 7pm until the end of August. Teams of five players will party up and take part in an eight team single …
Read More »$15,000 cosplay competition to take place at The International 6
The International 6 will feature a $15,000 cosplay competition, giving the best Dota 2 cosplayers in the world a chance to show off on the biggest stage of the year. For the first time ever the best cosplayers will take to the main stage at The International to battle it …
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