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, […]
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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 […]
Esports week in review: Proximus launches esports TV channel, eDivisie partners with KPN and H&M, playing FIFA good for your health.
eDivisie announces partnership with KPN and H&M Netherlands. We recently reported about the fourth eDivisie season coming up, with 100.000 € worth of prizemoney to be divided over the best among the 18 teams competing. The competition will be run by DreamHack Sports Games , and have now added two more big partners to their […]
IESF PES European Championship concluded, six countries qualify for World Championship in Eilat.
Russia, Poland, Israel and more qualify for IESF World Cup in Eilat. Saturday the 14th the European finals of IESF took place, and six participants managed to bring their a-game in the right matches to qualify for the world finals. While the top 6 would go to the World Finals, the semi final contenders still […]
Esports week in review: NBA 2K21 events coming up, Codemasters takeover bid close to a billion $, eDivisie season 20/21 announced, and more.
Codemasters receive 973.000.000 $ offer from Take-Two Interactive. Britisch Codemasters, game developer of the Formula 1 series, have received a 973.000.000 $ buyout offer from American company Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. Codemasters has the F1 esports series running for two seasons now, which is in full gear, and uses Motorsport Games for their esports activities […]
The Prima-donna Problem
No matter the industry, big or small, there are always the minority that over-inflate their ability or worth and in sporting there has always been a bit of a prima-donna problem. It would come as no surprise that esports isn’t immune to this either as over the years there have been a fair share of […]
Esports week in review: AC Milan announces esports partnership and new players.
AC Milan announce Esports plans, teams and partnership with QLASH. After a successful pilot season with an official Italian FIFA league -eSerie A- during the spring of this year, cut short by the spread of COVID19, AC Milan announced their intentions to go full throttle into Esports. They started a strategic partnership with QLASH and […]
Esports week in review: Damwon Gaming wins Worlds 2020, Real Madrid star Casemiro announces esports team, and more.
Damwon Gaming wins Worlds 2020. The South Korean team Damwon Gaming have won the 10th anniversary edition of the League of Legends World Cup. After several years of Chinese dominance, the Summoners Cup will once again find it’s way to South Korea. Chinese Suning Gaming did manage to get to the final, but were beaten […]
Esports week in review: Cloud9 announce female squad, FIFA21 National Dutch team coach and more.
Cloud9 announce fully female roster. One of the biggest esports organizations, Cloud9 has announced the signing of a fully female VALORANT team. The team was known as Team MAJKL, but from this moment will now compete under the C9 banner as ‘Cloud9 White’. The male Valorant roster will be renamed to ‘Cloud9 Blue’, in order […]
Esports week in review: Heroic takes international CS:GO gold again, NA Valorant 100.000 $ tournament announced, Sergio Aguero enters esports realm.
Heroic Best team Vitality to win DreamHack Open Fall. After their successful ESL One Cologne win a few months ago, the Danish team sandwiched FaZe Clan’s IEM win with their second title this year. Heroic managed to best Vitality 3-2 in the grand final which will again be a sour pill to swallow for the […]
The Biggest Organisations in Esports
From a group of friends coming together to play in a tournament, into the huge multi-million-dollar businesses we see today – esports organisations have come a very long way in a very short amount of time with many often forgetting that they had been formed by gamers, and not experience business men. Despite this, many […]
Esports week in review: IEM New York north America concludes, FIFA21 release causes many transfers.
FIFA21 release causes many transfers. West Ham United have announced a new FIFA player. A few weeks ago I was puzzled to see Dutchman Jonas ‘Jonna’ Ghebrehiwot was released by his football club PEC Zwolle, shortly after winning the Dutch eDivisie title together with his teammate Tony Kok. It makes more sense now. His management […]
The Biggest Games in Esports
It can be difficult to truly discover what the biggest of the esports titles are as different fans will be the first to point out why their favourite game is the biggest – are viewer numbers the metric? How about the current popularity of the game? Or perhaps we look at other metrics such as […]
Esports week in review: FazeClan wins IEM New York, FIFA21 released, TSM winless at Worlds 2020.
FazeClan wins IEM New York versus OG in dominating fashion. FazeClan played their first event with former Astralis talent Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjaerbye, and fueled by a confident Nikola NiKo Kovač managed a strong 3-0 victory over OG. FaZe took down Team Vitality in the Semi Finals and OG in the grand final to claim the […]
David Beckham and Esports
David Beckham, a famous soccer star, has invested heavily in Esports? He assumed a co-owner position in a respected esports company. The company, Guild Esports, had plans of floating an esports academy program for young players, and the sports star would help in mentoring and coaching the young esports players. Guild Esports aimed to raise […]
TSM Recapture LCS Title
In a series marred with technical issues, TSM have been able to capture their first LCS title since the 2017 summer split after what many have considered to be quite a rocky season, or few seasons for the previously very dominant team. The best-of-five series against Flyquest, who had previously knocked TSM out of the […]
The Biggest Players in Esports
Prize pools continue to increase and additional exposure means teams can afford to pay their star players bigger salaries – with this career winnings are increasing at a rapid rate, here we take a look at some of the biggest players in esports from a range of different games, and just how they’ve reached where […]
A Big Opportunity for Blizzard
Activision Blizzard are probably most well known for their huge MMORPG title of World of Warcraft with little movement into the esports space until Overwatch came along – hitting a huge franchised market Overwatch League didn’t live up to expectations for many and whilst gaining a huge fanbase it never really took off in the […]
Esports week in review: FIFA21 released, Iesf PES contestants.
More Iesf World Cup Israel PES players qualified. Finland has completed their national championship, where 34 year old PES veteran Jussi Aalto delivered on his promise to play his heart out. The man from Tampere cruised to a win without losing a single game, and will no doubt be a feared opponent in the Euro […]
The CS:GO vs Valorant Debate Continues
Ever since the initial beta previews earlier this year and the release in June, there has been a lot of debate around whether or not Riot Games title of Valorant could take the top spot in the competitive first-person shooter genre, or whether the seasoned veteran of Counter-Strike could rely on its storied history in […]
Esports week in review: Virtua Fighter esports, PES Champions.
Falcaovscr7 crowns himself Luxembourg contender for Iesf WC Eilat, Israel. Saturday the 26th of September we saw another contender for the title Iesf World Champion PES emerge. After Dutchman Johnny Beumer and Portuguese former World Champion Christopher Maduro Morais the third man to qualify is the champion of Luxembourg, Claudio “Falcaovscr7” Matos. Lesf (Luxembourg Esports […]
The Biggest Events in Esports
As the popularity of esports continues to grow, so do the big events that are hosted each year – some are limited to one big event at the end of the year with regular seasonal play throughout, whereas others host a number of different events during the year. As bigger sponsors become evolved, and online […]
Esports week in review: Halo 5 Pro Series, Mercedes links with Riot.
Halo Championship Series announces Halo 5 Pro Series. Halo Championship Series announced the next installment of its Pro Series this week, introducing a competition format for Halo 5: Guardians, called Halo 5 Pro Series. Running from September 26th and played online, across the event series Halo 5 Pro Series will dish out over 53.000 € […]
A History of Esports Betting
It’s often easy to forget just how young esports in its current form is – whilst many suggest that it has been around since the late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s, the scale and scope is much different from what we see today, with the past decade really being the big mover in the scene. And […]
Esports week in review: COD crossplay, RL free to play date, and more.
Call of Duty League Season 2021 Call of Duty League announced they’re going crossplay, and the professional gamers in the league will have to play on PC, but with controllers. The season schedule and prize purse are to be detailed at a later date. An excerpt of their site read the following ; “For the […]
Esports week in review: G2 LEC champion, new esports titles and leagues announced, F1 esports mobile, FIFA transfers and more.
René Treur with his exciting esports news from this week FIFA scene transfer carrousel in full gear. After last week’s announcements and hints, this week my suspicions of a new eDivisie season to be announced were fueled by Mondays news on FC Groningen Esports. The Eredivisie is to start this weekend, and fans are expecting […]
Esports week in review: COD league finals and more
Dallas Empire are Call of Duty World Champions 2020. After a strong season, Dallas Empire gets to receive the 1.500.000 $ first place prize, as well as some insanely good looking trophies and gear. 27 year old former Halo player Ian “C6” Porter claimed the MVP, and – much like his teammate Clayster – his […]
Esports week in review: ESL one Cologne reaches a conclusion
ESL one Cologne reached its final conclusion Heroic won ESL One Cologne’s European tournament. They managed to best team Vitality 3-0 in a one-sided grand final of the 325.000 $ tournament this weekend, claiming the 150.000 $ first place prize. This result confirmed to everyone their recent entry into the top 10 CS:GO teams […]
Esports week in review: Season coming to a close
The prize pool of The International, as the World Cup of the game Dota 2 is called, has risen to unprecedented heights. The annual world championship Dota 2 currently has the largest prize pool in a gaming tournament ever, at $ 34.4 million.
Esports week in review: Season coming to a close
This past week the FIFA 20 season came to an official close with the EA eChampions League Invitational. Usually EA has a huge offline event as culmination for all their FUT Champions Cups and online qualifiers called the EA FIFA eWorld cup, but due to Covid19 this years edition was cancelled. A number of online tournaments was organised and broadcasted, with this 100.000 $ eChampions League Invitational as culmination.
Esports week in review: World Cup galore
This past week a number of esports World Cups were announced or held. Iesf World Championship at Eilat, Israel was also announced. With PES eFootball, Tekken7 and Dota2 it’s expected to be a big spectacle come November.