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May 3, 2019
Rainbow Six Siege Masters 2019 announced
Rainbow Six Siege is one of the best Cinderella-stories in esports – after a slow start and consequent huge improvement, Rainbow Six amassed a significant following among esports fans and…
May 2, 2019
MDL Disneyland Paris: major groups announced
MDL Disneyland is scheduled to start at the end of this week, on May 4th, and the groups have been announced. These groups are the following: Group A TEAM TEAM…
May 1, 2019
LoL Patch 9.9 most significant champion changes
Aatrox: Quite a few changes to Aatrox which will dramatically impact his playstyle throughout. Check our entire Aatrox rundown here! Blitzcrank: Minor visual updates to all Blitzcrank’s abilities. Ultimate passive…
May 1, 2019
Fortnite Australian Open players have never received winnings
Epic biggest Fortnite event is well under-way. Despite some problems with the tournament, such as pro player caught cheating, every weekend now has compelling Fortnite play taking place. With the…
May 1, 2019
MSI 2019: 13 Champions 1 Trophy
The League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational a.k.a “mini-Worlds” kicks off today at the GG Stadium (VCS Studio) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Play-in stage of the event will…
April 30, 2019
The Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) has crowned its winner
Last weekend, between April 25th and April 28th the big finale of the Hearthstone Championship Tour took place in Taipei, Taiwan. After an (almost) full season of fun matches, exciting…
April 30, 2019
Homestand weekend recap: Dallas, Seoul and Hangzhou go 2-0
With our first taste of Overwatch League action outside of the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles for the very first time, its safe to say the experiment of home and…
April 30, 2019
Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Sydney 2019: The story so far
This morning 16 teams entered The Bankstown Sports Club set on claiming $100,000 in prize money and the coveted trophy of the Sydney Premier. The teams were drawn into two…
April 30, 2019
Major Aatrox’s changes with LoL PBE 9.9
Large changes have been made to Aatrox which are now live on the PBE 9.9 cycle. Aatrox will be much stronger in the late game, however, rushing in at the…
April 29, 2019
The Magical Cat, Yuumi: new LoL champion rundown
One of the more interesting champions Riot have added, a new never seen before mechanic on her Q, while also changing up the traditional support style. Yuumi is the first…
April 29, 2019
Esports in the Sun – Spain and its place in the esports world
For most people not from Spain, the country is synonymous with lovely beaches and great summer holidays. Of course, that’s not all it has to offer – alongside wonderful sights,…
April 26, 2019
Washington Justice sign two players in an effort to save their season
The Washington Justice haven’t had the easiest run of form since joining the league in January. In 12 games played so far, Justice have only come away with one win…
April 26, 2019
Overwatch World Cup 2019: new year, new format
After a recent announcement on their website, Blizzard Entertainment has now confirmed the return of one of their premier Overwatch competitions as the Overwatch World Cup gets set to return…
April 26, 2019
ESL Pro League Season 9 first tier finalists confirmed
Late last night Team Astralis secured the last of the top four European spots at the upcoming ESL Pro League Season Finals. They would have topped Group D regardless of…
April 26, 2019
Myths and Might – Magic: The Gathering’s Mythic Championship 2 is here!
Despite not being the most traditional ‘esports’, Magic: The Gathering is an incredibly popular game that draws leagues of fans much like Overwatch and CS:GO do – based on this…
April 25, 2019
GumGum’s bid to streamline esports sponsorship
Revenues from sponsorship make up a huge part of the income for esports organisations. In an industry that is thought to hit global revenues of $1.65 billion by 2021, $1.4…
April 25, 2019
The UK esports awards are going into their second year!
It’s that time of year again… no, the other time of year! That’s right, it’s award-season. This means that the UK esports awards are rolling back around for their second…
April 24, 2019
Fortnite cheats are the biggest problem in the World Cup
It is hard to have a major competitive event in Fortnite without having a bit of controversy over cheating. This is why it wasn’t all that surprising when Epic revealed…
April 24, 2019
PUBG FACEIT Global Summit Recap: and the winner is OP Gaming
For an entire week it was everyone’s best guess, which was the top PUBG team in the world. It came down to the last three minutes of the final map…
April 24, 2019
What to watch: Overwatch League’s first Homestand weekend S2W4
The Overwatch League will touch down in Texas for its inaugural Homestand weekend at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas this coming week. Now that the Overwatch League has…
April 24, 2019
2019 European Masters Spring semi-finals prediction
The 2019 European Masters is one of the larger events not completely controlled by Riot Games, instead being a joint venture between Riot and ESL. As mentioned on the eumasters…
April 23, 2019
Kentucky Fried Counterstrike… the KFC Esports Battle is here!
In a world filled with pro gamers and pro tournaments, Leagues, Championships and whatever else you can imagine, it’s easy to lose sight of gamers that aren’t quite at that…
April 23, 2019
LoL player Kim “PraY” Jong-in retires from competitive scene
PraY, one of the longest standing veterans in the competitive League of Legends scene has finally announced his retirement following his absence from the 2019 Spring split. Kim “PraY” Jong-in…
April 23, 2019
AVANGAR win DreamHack Open Rio 2019
After the BLAST Pro Series Miami and StarSeries i-League Season 7, the stage was set for the lower ranked teams to face off against each other in Brazil. DreamHack Open…
April 22, 2019
Sony plans to boost the esports spectator experience through VR
Sony have recently filed a patent that aims to use virtual reality to boost our enjoyment of watching esports tournaments. The project would see an array of virtual reality cameras…