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August 26, 2019
FURIA eliminated from StarLadder Major – What happened to the best Brazilian CSGO Team?
Whoever played StarLadder Berlin Major Pick’em is very angry right now. I think all of us had FURIA to advance through and we were expecting them to dominate most of…
August 26, 2019
Overwatch League Playoffs: Play-Ins playout
The conclusion of the KIT KAT® Rivalry Weekend in LA gave us the 6 Playoffs and 6 Play-In spots for the OWL Playoffs stage. The six playoffs spots went to…
August 26, 2019
Team Liquid lift the trophy: 2019 NA LCS Summer Split overview
LCS Regular season The top three teams in the NA LCS Summer split, Team Liquid, Cloud 9 and Counter Logic Gaming were all looking rocky in the first three to…
August 26, 2019
OG wins TI9, becoming the first Dota 2 team to win The International twice
One year after winning TI 8, OG has managed to win The International 2019. Once again, they did it in spectacular fashion, as complete underdogs, at the end of a…
August 23, 2019
To pay or not to pay – Scandals in the esports world
Employment is a pretty straight-forward deal. The employee performs a task as part of their job, and their employer pays them for it. So far so easy – except that…
August 23, 2019
The International 2019 Semifinals Preview – Will OG go home with the Aegis of Champions for the second time round?
The International 2019 is about to enter a stage where only the best of the best are left in the race. Practically, we’re down to the final five teams and…
August 23, 2019
Esports and the Real Estate Paradox
The esports industry is taking on an importance that could rival cinema at any time. The social impact is overwhelming. In this way, just as the Rialto Theater represented a…
August 23, 2019
United Masters League Season 2 announced – Unikrn to power this $150,000 CSGO event
Even though United Masters League Season 1 did not attract a lot of attention, I firmly believe that this will change now that the second season of UML has been…
August 23, 2019
LEC Playoffs & the path to Worlds
After nine grueling weeks of competition the LEC Summer Playoffs kick off later today with teams Splyce and Rogue taking on the Summoners Rift. Last week’s mind-breaker scenarios saw SK-Gaming…
August 22, 2019
Terminator Blast Off – An explosive partnership
The Blast Pro Series: Moscow 2019 is a pretty big name in the CS:GO world. The Russia-based tournament has a prize pool of a cool quarter million USD. They will…
August 22, 2019
Valkyrae discovers game-breaking Fortnite glitch during Twitch Rivals
This week the 100 Thieves player Valkyrae came out on top of a Twitch rivals game, but not through skill or use a mech. In this game, an accidental, but…
August 22, 2019
Fnatic roster changes – What’s next for the Swedish CSGO Roster
After not qualifying for the upcoming StarLadder CSGO Major 2019, Swedish esports organization decided to revamp their roster and look for new talents from their region. To be honest, it…
August 21, 2019
An esports team of young monks got up at the Khon Kaen University’s Nong Khai competition
In a “Speed Drifters” esports competition held at the Khon Kaen University’s Nong Khai campus over from 15th to 18th August something “unusual” happened! A small group of monk apprentices…
August 21, 2019
Ford launches Frodzilla, their own Motor Racing Team of Esports
In a new leap into the virtual world, on August 19, 2019, Ford Motors announced its incursion into the world of esports by putting its own team behind the digital…
August 21, 2019
The Netherlands’ first dedicated esports stadium is coming!
In Europe, there are several big esports nations – the UK, Germany and France… the Netherlands doesn’t quite measure up. Still, like anywhere else, there are lots and lots of…
August 20, 2019
Call of Duty as an esport – An uncertain future
The last big event in the CoD esports world was the conclusion of the CoD World League. A total of $2 million in prize money were paid out, and the…
August 20, 2019
StarLadder Opening Matches – Day of the Underdogs?
There are only a couple of days left before the second CSGO major in 2019 is live. In this piece, we will present you with all the matches played on…
August 20, 2019
Echo Fox’s $30 million deal falls through
Just under a month ago, Echo Fox submitted a proposal to sell its LCS position to Kroenke Sports & Entertainment for a grand $30.25 million. This situation follows Echo Fox’s…
August 19, 2019
Heading to the Main Event: TI9 Round 1 predictions
After a dramatic Group Stage at The International 2019 which ended with teams Chaos E.C. and Ninjas in Pyjamas saying goodbye, it is time to put our prediction hat on…
August 19, 2019
Epic Games Vice President clashes with players over ‘Fortnite Ethos’
The recent debate about the newly introduced B.R.U.T.E mechs was looking like it would follow the typical pattern for new content in Fortnite. Item or mechanic gets introduced, pro players…
August 16, 2019
Pro Fortnite players react the B.R.U.T.E Mech Patch
Fortnite latest season saw the introduction of some overpowered mechs named B.R.U.T.Es. These devices spawned all over the map in varying amounts, then spawned again between each storm phase. With…
August 16, 2019
Conclusions after the first two days of The International 2019
The International 2019 has finally begun and we’re about to enter the third competitive day of the Group Stage. In this article, I will take you through the results of…
August 16, 2019
The breakfast of champions: Kellogg’s sponsors esports
There’s no shortage of non-esports brands that invest in and spend on esports ventures – from car brands to mobile phone providers, just about everyone wants a slice of the…
August 16, 2019
Biggest changes in TFT after the update
If you are into TFT and you spend a lot of time playing this up and coming game, then you definitely know that meta is constantly changing. For instance, we…
August 16, 2019
Tiebreaker mind breaker in Week 9 of the LEC
The final week of the LEC has shaped up to be most explosive one this year. Last week we wrote about the importance of Week 8 for Origen, Vitality and…