Emerging in Esports: Valorant
Our recent posts have taken a look at the big success stories in esports over the past two decades and the most notable names. But the esports market is still growing very rapidly, with plenty of room for other titles to reach the heights of the more established names – we’ll be looking at the…
Emerging in Esports: Sporting Games
One genre in particular that certainly could have fit on our honourable mentions list for esports history, has to be within sporting games, but it may have been a little unfair as they’re starting to cover some more ground in numbers. Whilst not one title in particular, but a few, sporting games are starting to…
Esports week in review: Jarno Opmeer wins Formula 1 esports series, Astralis win 500.000 $ IEM Global Challenge.
Jarno Opmeer wins Formula 1 esports series. For the first time a Dutchman has become world champion in Formula 1. Not in the real cars, but in the official Codemasters F1 Esports Series. Jarno Opmeer from ‘s-Gravendeel in South Holland was the man to grab the number one spotfor Alfa Romeo Racing, where he is…
Emerging Esports: Rainbow Six Siege
Another big first-person shooter to hit the list of the biggest esports in the world, but with a bit of a different twist. It’s also a big difficult to really lump this in to the emerging section, but the game is still growing and hasn’t yet hit the heights that the bigger games have. Despite…
Esports week in review: Virtus.Pro wins DreamHack Open December, BLAST Premier 2021 announced, and more.
Virtus.Pro wins DreamHack Open December. DreamHack had one more edition of DreamHack Open to wrap up the year 2020. With a prize pool of 100.000 $, just like the November edition, the tournament was played fully online and broadcasted from the Monster Energy DreamHack Studio in Stockholm. The eight teams participating have either qualified or…
Esports week in review: 100 Thieves wins first Valorant Major, HearthStone World Championship starts, and more.
100 Thieves wins first Valorant Major against TSM. The first big regional Valorant tournament was held in North America, under the name Valorant First Strike, which we reported on earlier. Esports giants 100 Thieves and TeamSoloMid fought a thrilling final to determine who would start of their professional Valorant career with a bang. First Strike…
How Franchising Helped Esports
Whilst esports has been around for nearly twenty years in its current, more recognizable form, the support seen today hasn’t always been there. In the early days, players often weren’t salaried under an organisation and if they were, the pay received was often extremely low. Similarly, the events that took place outside of very few…
Esports week in review: Astralis win DreamHack Masters, Go Ahead Eagles first Keuken Kampioen Divisie Rocket League champion.
DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 prey for Astralis. Astralis have beaten Mousesports 3-1 in the best of five grand final of DreamHack Masters Winter 2020. The Danes picked up 60.000 $ for their efforts. Mousesports, who came agonizingly close to a win fueled by Robin “Ropz” Kool, had to make due with 30.000 $. Astralis completely…
Can North American Esports Evolve?
Whilst esports is still relatively new and growing, there have been certain regions that have been able to clearly define their strengths in certain genres and titles. Whether this be the Korean and Chinese teams for League of Legends, the Europeans on Call of Duty, or the small niches that form within these titles themselves.…
Esports week in review: Two players with 210-0 in Weekend League, Antoine Griezzman tied to Olympique Marseille, and more.
Olympique Marseille enters esports collaboration with Grizi Esport. French top-flight football club Olympique Marseille has announced an esports partnership with Grizi Esport, the organisation raised by Barcelona football player Antoine Griezmann and his brother Théo Griezmann. About 10 months ago the brothers announced their plans, detailing an intention to form a world class Rocket League…
Esports week in review: VALORANT and PUBG Mobile world championships 2021 announced, JTF wins OMEN LAN online.
Riot Games unveils VALORANT Champions Tour 2021. After the regional First Strike competition in the American region, Riot Games has lifted the lid on their global competitive structure for the 2021 season. Their tournament series will go by the name the VALORANT Champions Tour. Regions involved will be North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa,…
Esports week in review: Rio Ferdinand and Dele Alli enter esports, 2K Fest with NBA 2K21 competitions and more.
2K Fest with top NBA players and NBA 2K21 esports players. Last weekend 2K held a huge event to celebrate their 21 year anniversary. Timing for basketball fans was quite appropriate as well, with the NBA draft having taken place just the Wednesday before, and the NBA league picking up again with the new season…
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