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As a young man, I frequented many racing circuits around the UK, but mainly Brands Hatch. It was relatively close by and I could ride my motorbike along winding roads to reach it, often at ridiculous speeds compared to the road quality. I was and am a racing junky. I …
Read More »Marty Strenczewilk, co-founder of Splyce.gg, talks eSports, Overwatch, and Broadway
A few years ago Marty Strenczewilk had a problem; he wanted to watch Hearthstone tournaments but had a hard time finding out when they took place. So Marty began thinking of a way to solve his problem. He pitched his solution idea to a friend, recruited his wife to help, …
Read More »Making the waters a little more attractive: The big structural changes that eSports needs to make if it wishes to attract investors
In our last article we discussed the disproportion of eSports, given its viewership (and its relative young-ness) it should be growing at a much larger rate than it currently is. I believe that one of the two major problems impeding eSports proper growth is this: the inability for franchises, or …
Read More »The trouble with transparency in Valve’s Dota 2 invites
The International 2016’s qualifiers are over. The 18 teams who will travel to Seattle are set. At this time of the year, the building anticipation has the power to stall all other discussions in the Dota 2 world. Unfortunately, that includes the discussion of how we got here: How Valve …
Read More »A Roster Retrospective by Spencer "Hiko" Martin
As I said to Richard, winning has always been the goal. The funny part about this specific clip is that it was recorded at ELeague. Turns out we didn’t do so well in ELeague. We’ve made some changes since then, but the story of how we got to ELeague goes …
Read More »The Trials of WESA: After troubled start, standards body gains ground with esports industry
Going on two months since the founders of the World Electronic Sports Association revealed their plans to the CS:GO community, the controversy has died down, but the machinery behind WESA is still grinding away. The organization’s leadership says they are hard at work trying to convince players, teams and sponsors …
Read More »Interview with Diego Buñuel, the mind behind Canal+’s new esports show
Yesterday, Canal+ revealed the arrival of a weekly show about esports. So, we reached out to Diego Buuel, the person behind the esports push at Canal+, to find out more. Buuel is a French film-maker and the host and director of the National Geographic series, Don’t Tell My Mother. He …
Read More »The stagnation of League of Legends
League of Legends has long been the gold standard as far as both online gaming and esports are concerned. Riot Games established its lone game as the competitive game of choice through shrewd decisions such as establishing the LCS, ensuring player safety by providing salaries to professional players, and simply …
Read More »What’s next for world’s biggest mobile esport Vainglory
Mobile phones are the most popular gaming devices in the world. Hundreds of millions of people now hold a world of games in the palm of their hand at every waking moment, eliminating the inconvenience of computers and consoles. Read more on ESPN >>>
Read More »A team-by-team introduction to professional Overwatch
Overwatch is still in it’s infancy but has shown promise from professional teams and developers that it is pushing to be the next great esport. ESL recently announced a $100,000 invitational tournament at the end of summer during Gamescom. With no announcements about official Activision Blizzard tournaments, many team owners …
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