The west continues its dominant reign at the League of Legends World Championship 2018, with two more teams now having advanced to the final four. In the most recent slate of games in the quarterfinal stage, North America’s final representative Cloud9 went to battle with Korea’s final squad Afreeca Freecs and the American team made
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I’ve been saying in all of these write-ups for the League of Legends World Championship that anything can and will happen and that once again proved to be true today. In what is perhaps the most unexpected and crazy day that Worlds has ever seen, both of the favorites to win the entire tournament have
Fortnite: Battle Royale has taken the world by storm; there’s no doubting that. Schools have had to ban the game, mainstream media is shouting about it, and parents often moan about their kids being on it for hours on end. However, as a parent myself, I thought it’d be worth explaining what Fortnite is and
The wheels have been turning for 2019’s Overwatch League for some time now with nuggets of information emerging about a number of different teams and organizations. The latest piece of news comes from Vancouver’s squad announcing that it will be teaming up with Luminosity for the upcoming season. The Vancouver side is among the eight
The main event for fighting game fans over the weekend was Sea Major 2018 which took place in Singapore serving as Asia’s Capcom Pro Tour regional finals. Unlike most tournaments, the regional finals was an 8-man competition featuring the top players from the Asain CPT leaderboards. Of course, this meant that some of the best-known
Gen.G esports announced recently that they have brought aboard former NBA player Chris Bosh to work with the organization’s players moving forward. A 13-year veteran of the NBA who recently had his career come to a potential end due to injuries, Bosh has previously won multiple championships with the Miami Heat and also played a
The League of Legends World Championship 2018 Group Stage just wrapped up its second day which means every team has now had a chance to play. As the standings currently sit, China’s representing teams from the LPL currently sit at 4-0 with Korea’s representatives from the LCK finding themselves collectively in a hole early at 1-4
The League of Legends World Championships 2018 continue tomorrow and this is North America’s year to win the whole thing. You heard it here first. If North America were to stand a chance at winning Worlds this year, it stands to reason that the hopes of the region lie most on Team Liquid, the team
The eSports presence of EA’s FIFA series is ever-growing, and EA is taking things one step further by partnering with the Premier League in the UK to create the ePremier League Tournament, stylized as ePL, which will begin in January 2019. FIFA is one of EA’s most popular franchises worldwide, and the Premier League is
The League of Legends World Championships 2018 kicked off earlier this week and as of this morning, the first round of the tournament, the Play-In Group stage, has now wrapped up with those teams moving on preparing for some Best-of-5 matchups this weekend. After four days of play, Edward Gaming won Group A with Infinity Esports
San Deigo was host to the latest Gears Pro Circuit event over the weekend which saw an abundance of well-known teams battling it out for a shot at the title including Echo Fox, Nimbus, Reciprocity, and Spacestation with Optic Gaming and Ghost Gaming going head-to-head in the grand finals. Sporting a team of Solurs, Praized,
It’s official. Tempo Storm will be representing North America at BlizzCon for the 2018 HGC Finals. Despite its rank in the standings, Team Freedom has made it all the way to the last matchup in the North American HGC Playoffs against the second ranks Tempo Storm. While they haven’t been the most successful team in
After four full matches of pro Heroes of the Storm play, Leftovers defeated the top-seeded Fnatic and will now be heading to the 2018 HGC Finals at BlizzCon. The matchup between the Leftovers and Fnatic is somewhat of an even matchup. Fnatic has the better seeding with only one team to face to progress to the
Cloud9 have made some alterations to its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team this week, seeing Fnatic’s Robin “Flusha” Ronnquist joining its ranks. In a blog post on the team’s official site, Cloud9 welcomed the veteran player who’s been making waves on the ever-evolving Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eSports scene since 2012; one year before Cloud9 was founded.
Esports is my game of the year. No, seriously. Nothing has pulled me in more this year and made me more invested than the League of Legends North American pro scene, and I hate myself for it. After my boys in Echo Fox lost to those scumbags from TSM in the quarterfinals of the Summer Split Playoffs
It’s been a busy year for professional Overwatch players as the Overwatch League’s Inaugural Season saw 12 teams battle it out to prove their worth as the world’s best competitive gaming outfit in front of millions of fans. It turns out that champions The London Spitfire’s sweeping 3-0 victory against The Philadelphia Fusion in the
Today, Team USA and Team Canada advanced to the Overwatch World Cup Finals which will take place at BlizzCon later this year. Both Team USA and Team Canada have been dominating US grouping winning every match until they faced each other in the last match of today’s action. After finishing their four games (like every
Following on from this year’s hugely successful Overwatch Inaugural League, plans are already in motion to make next year’s event a bigger, bolder affair with even more teams joining the battle. It was announced this morning via the official Overwatch site that the 2019 Overwatch League Championships would be boosting the number of competing teams
The fast-paced world of eSports can be a ruthless place. The competition is consistently tough, the standard of play is world class, the pressure is immense, and the level of commitment required to compete is unparalleled in any other aspects of gaming. With all of these elements at play, sometimes teams have to go back
The ever-impressive PAX West wasn’t the only major gaming event to take place on American soil this past weekend as New Jersey saw some of the best Tekken 7 players in the world gather to prove their worth at Summer Jam XII, the last major event before the game sees the return of classic characters
As the summer draws to an end it becomes time for the world’s greatest pokémon trainers to gather for the biggest competition of the year. The Pokémon World Championships took place over the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. The cowboy-themed event saw a wealth of new trainers claim their positions as the planet’s greatest players in
Following the end of the 2018 Pokémon World Championships, the folks over on the official Pokémon Twitter announced where the next competition will be held. Which means it’s time to stop slacking and get training if you want to be the very best like no one ever was. Get ready to pack your bags, Trainers! Pikachu's
Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced the Hearthstone Collegiate Championship will return this Fall with $48,000 in scholarship prizing. The regular season of the HCC will begin on October 1, 2018, and end on November 5, 2018. Each team of three competitors will play seven Swiss-format matches within one of four regional groups depending on the location
Today, the Overwatch League announced the full 18-player rosters — which includes starters and reserves — for both the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions for this weekend’s All-Star Game. After over 55,000 fans cast their votes with Overwatch League players, coaches, casters, and staff selecting the reserves, here are what the teams will look like: Pacific Division
The biggest Call of Duty tournament of 2018 came to a close yesterday as America’s Evil Geniuses dominated over the competition. This year’s Evil Geniuses team consisted of Adam “Assault” Garcia, Patrick “Aches” Price, Bryan “Apathy” Zhelyazkov, and Justin “Silly” Fargo-Palmer with Aches and Apathy earning the second Call of Duty Champion rings of their
After three loaded days of professional Heroes of the Storm play at the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles, Team Dignitas defeated Leftovers to win the Phase Two 2018 HGC Western Clash. From the start, Team Dignitas was the favorite to win for the Europe region. However, Leftovers was not the team expected to be the
It is that time of year once again: theHGC Western Clash – Phase 2 is upon us, bringing some of the best professional Heroes of the Storm eSports teams together to clash for the weekend. For those who are just jumping into the world of HotS eSports — or really any eSport in general —
The Overwatch League season wrapped up just a couple weeks ago at this point and it seems like a whole lot of people tuned in to watch the London Spitfire walk away as champs. In new viewership data released today, it was announced that the Overwatch League drew in more than 10.8 million viewers from around
This weekend saw an incredible assembly of fighter game players attending the UK’s VSFighting event, featuring some of the biggest names in the business. The UK is well-known for its colossal fighting game tournaments, but it’s rare that it sees such a star-studded line-up of players. This past weekend VSFighting took place at Millennium Point
Overwatch’s support heroes are next in line for an array of alternations according to Blizzard. Posting on Blizzard’s official forums, Overwatch developer Geoff Goodman outlined the changes that we can expect to see across five of the game’s characters and the reasoning behind each tweak. The characters in question include Ana, Bridgette, Lúcio, Mercy, and Moira;
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