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This past week, Spanish football club Valencia CF announced a new team, not of footballers but of video gamers. Competitive gaming is fast becoming legitimate, with star players, huge winnings and audiences in the millions. The 2015 finals for the gaming title League of Legends, for instance, brought in more …
Read More »The import appetite and the Kikis quandary
Mateusz "Kikis" Szkudlarek’s discomfort with a six man roster has cost him his position as starting top laner of G2 Esports. Narratives will read Kikis lacked the confidence to stick it out and prove his worth, that his decision to deliver an ultimatum motivated, at least in part, by his …
Read More »Secret and Evil Geniuses Eat Humble Pie Ahead of The International 6
Ahead of the biggest tournament of the Dota 2 calendar, The International, Evil Geniuses and Team Secret have swapped players, forfeiting any direct invite that was going their way as well as any slot in the Regional Qualifiers. Read more on Splyce >>>
Read More »Top Three Overwatch Teams – June 14 2016
The Overwatch tournament scene is now in full throttle after the game’s official launch last month. With as little as three major tournaments and a few dozen weeklies and minors, some teams have already emerged as dominant forces in the rapidly growing competitive environment. Read more on Gamurs >>>
Read More »CLG: A story of plateaus
Bursting onto the North American scene as a team known as NetCodeGuides, the current four man core of Counter Logic Gaming, Tarik "tarik" Celik, Stephen "reltuC" Cutler, James "hazed" Cobb and Joshua "JDM" Marzano, rapidly rose through the ranks of the North American scene and, for brief periods of time, …
Read More »Kelsey Moser reviews the EU LCS Top 3: One of these is not like the other
In the first two weeks of the EU LCS, it’s dangerous to make assumptions about which teams will top the standings. Yet teams that sift to the top do so for a reason, whether it’s an easy early-season schedule or a head start at understanding their strengths and weaknesses. G2 …
Read More »Quas on returning to the LCS: "When I left the scene, I wasn’t planning on coming back immediately."
For only being gone for five months, the professional League of Legends landscape sure did change during the absence of Diego Quas” Ruiz. Four North American League Championship Series teams – including NRG, for which he now plays – didn’t even exist when Quas left Team Liquid last November, and …
Read More »SonicFox wins a third ESL Pro League title and takes home the largest cash prize in Mortal Kombat history
Saturday was supposed to be the day that Dominique "SonicFox" McLean’s reign as king of Mortal Kombat was supposed to end. There was just one problem: Someone forgot to tell SonicFox. Read more on Daily Dot >>>
Read More »The team builder of South Korea: Woong and Overwatch
Gun Woong Jang is a famously polarizing figure in South Korean esports. His sometimes controversial actions, epic plays and even more epic victory songs have gained him a healthy amount of fans and critics alike. More than anything else, though, "Woong" has been a builder. Read more on ESPN >>>
Read More »FACEIT co-founder: "There is no need for exclusivity, just better organization and the best products will emerge naturally."
It is fair to say that the CS:GO scene is experiencing somewhat of a boom right now. ELeague is bringing Valve’s shooter to TV, the majors have $1 million on the line and the World Esports Association is trying to regulate it all. But another key player in this boom …
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