Anders vejrgang 390 games in a row unbeaten. Anders vejrgang, professional FIFA Player for Red Bull Leipzig, has once again smashed EA FUT Weekend League with a 30 game winstreak and 0 losses. This puts him at an unprecedented 390-0 score, while previously we had never seen anyone go far beyond 150-0. The 14 year […]
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Esports History: Call of Duty
The next entry on our list of titles in esports history has had a lot of ups and downs, and perhaps a lot more changes than any other game that will find entry into esports. Call of Duty has been through so many different releases over the years that the games have become very distinct […]
Five Big Esports Events in 2021
Despite many ups and downs, 2020 was able to round out in relatively successful fashion for esports and was able to grant plenty of entertainment in a very difficult year for many – but 2021 is certainly shaping up to be just as exciting. We’ll see the return of two big events that saw cancellations […]
Esports and Streaming: Moving Hand in Hand
Our recent posts have taken a big focus on the games and titles that have made esports as big as they are today. Whilst each have had their role to play, one of the biggest factors in the success of esports has certainly been seen through the world of streaming, and the invaluable resource that […]
Esports week in review: Anders Vejrgang continues streak to 330 and 360-0, NBA 2K league to start 2021 season, Dota2 champions suspended following matchfixing.
NBA 2K21 League draft spots Europe and APAC region up for grabs The NBA 2K League is back, and while 2020 GEN.G Shanghai invitational has just taken place the 13th and 14th of December, Europe and APAC spots are already up for grabs in January. From 8 to 10 January Europe players will go head […]
Esports week in review: AFC Ajax wins official Dutch FIFA championship called eDivisie, SuperGen Group creating esports city and more.
AFC Ajax wins official Dutch FIFA championship, eDivisie. Ajax is the new champion in eDivisie, the official Dutch FIFA21 championship with all the top flight football clubs competing. Dani Hagebeuk and Tjardo Paliama won the championship plate and will be splitting the 25.000 € prize awarded for clinching the first place. While Paliama, former Almere […]
Esports 2020 Roundup
Last year certainly had its fair share of ups and downs, but with such a turbulent year there may have been a lot that passed you by throughout the times you weren’t able to pay as much attention to you hobby as you’d like – the year also had been able to show the many […]
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 […]
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.