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August 31, 2024
What’s Going on in the Group Stage of BTS Pro Series: Southeast Asia?
BTS Pro Series: Southeast Asia is the SEA twin brother of BTS Pro Series: Americas. The tournament started on April 10th, is taking place online and will last until April…
August 31, 2024
BMW partners with top esports teams
Non-esports related brands investing in esports or partnering with esports teams isn’t anything new – there are plenty of partnerships with energy drink providers, hardware manufacturers and more. Car manufacturers…
April 16, 2020
Team Liquid – Poor ESL One performance showcases the Champions downfall
Team Liquid suffers a whopping 5 losses out of 6 series at the ESL Los Angeles 2020. It’s an unsightly outcome for fans as the org’s immortalized title as the…
April 29, 2020
Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies Championship Announced
Riot Games is back with more good news – after continuously making headlines with their new games for weeks and months, With Valorant making noise on one side, they are…
December 7, 2024
Uptick in Gaming and Esports spells good news for Bookmakers
Around the world people are distancing and spending more time home. Traditional sports events are cancelled, the Olympics has been postponed. Esports tournaments too have been cancelled but that’s less…
October 5, 2022
LoL Playoffs around the World
The League of Legends Spring season has been pushed back in some regions, especially Korea and China in particular. The LEC and LCS Playoffs Finals will commence on the same…
April 13, 2020
Virtus.pro – The Major Kings are back
Virtus.pro, the CIS squad is on a 5-win streak at the EU & CIS regionals of ESL One Los Angeles 2020 online tournament. On top of that, Virtus.pro just took…
April 10, 2020
Why Cloud9 Will Win the Title at BTS Pro Series: Americas
BTS Pro Series: Americas promises to be a fun event to watch. And it’s a great chance for Cloud9 to prove its worth in this new and improved formula. Much…
January 19, 2022
Why Are so Many Overwatch Pros Switching to Valorant?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you’ve probably heard of the big new shooter game; Valorant. This new title is only in its closed beta, but…
August 4, 2023
Many Roads to ESL One Rio 2020
For the first time since the creation of the 2-Majors-per-year policy, the professional CS:GO scene will see a big change. The first Major of the year has been cancelled due…
May 13, 2020
A look at EternaLEnVy, DOTA2’s most infamous player
Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao is one of the most popular players in DOTA 2 pro scene, but always for the wrong reasons. Known for unjustifiably kicking teammates and his toxic behavior…
April 7, 2020
iRacing – the next big thing?
Given the current situation, a lot of events, esports and otherwise, are severely hampered. Amidst tons of cancellations and postponed events, it seems like nothing is happening anymore – but…
May 18, 2020
NBA 2K20 Players Tournament – Everything you need to know
In “normal” times the beginning of April would signal the NBA season coming to a close. Some end-of-season matches would be played across millions of TVs throughout the US and…
September 18, 2020
Does Fortnite Have a Pay to Win Skin?
Fortnite’s latest skin is a fun suit made of recycled cardboard. To some, this is just another light-hearted Fortnite skin, possibly made up to resemble how kids would make use…
June 23, 2022
2020 LoL Wildcard regions – Lighting Recap
Wildcard regions have long been stigmatized as not standing a chance compared to teams from majors regions like the LCS, LEC, LPL and LCK. However, given the sharp rise of…
August 14, 2024
5 Shocking Stories at ESL One Los Angeles 2020
Premier level Dota 2 is back and teams are getting caught off guard left right and center. The ESL One Los Angeles Online edition brought massive turmoil in the global…
May 9, 2024
The Valorant Beta is coming!
For a long time, all of Riot Games’ horses were hitched to one wagon – League of Legends. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing – the company was, after all,…
March 27, 2020
Overwatch Week 4 Hero Pools Bans 4 DPS Heroes
Overwatch’s experiment with hero pools has had its weirdest week yet, with 4 DPS heroes, a support, and a tank all being disabled. This is a particularly heavy week for…
March 27, 2020
MAD Lions draws the LEC Schedule short straw for Week 9
Week 9 of the LEC kicks off today with a second attempt at the online format. Teams are already locked for Playoffs, but there is some leeway in the standings…
March 26, 2020
Anathan: The two-time champion who watches Gordon Ramsay videos instead of practicing
The news about a 20-year-old Australian boy who won 15 MILLION dollars twice is astonishing to most people. While there is truth to that, Anathan “ana” Pham accomplished it with…
October 16, 2020
Amuka Esports acquires tournament organizer Incendium Gaming
The Canada fighting tournament community has gotten a little bigger recently, as two major organizers have merged to combine and extended their resources in bringing you major tournaments. Amuka Esports…
October 6, 2020
LCS, LEC slated to return online this weekend
After a tumultuous few weeks that have rocked the schedule for international LoL across the globe, a slight return to normalcy will occur with LEC and LCS being reinstated after…
March 19, 2020
Dota 2 update 7.25 brings overpowered and broken features
The DOTA 2 dev team dropped the update version 7.25 for millions of active players at home. The large update was initially scheduled to go live after the Los Angeles…
August 4, 2023
ESL Pro League Season 11: Changes, Structure and Favorites
The 11th season of ESL Pro League is set to begin today with a brand new (old) format. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Denver finals and Malta events were…
February 3, 2022
SoftBank Backed Game Revolution is Failing but Blockchain Isn’t
In 2017 Improbable Worlds Ltd raised $502 million in an investment round led by SoftBank. The gaming startup, founded seven years ago in the UK, appears to be struggling and…