American city Chicago to invest 30.000.000 $ in esports arena. Near the end of March, the City Council of Chicago has approved plans to build a 30.000.000 $ in esports arena in Bronzeville. The venue will be named Surge Esports Stadium, and will be located at McCormick Square, Chicago. A company called Smash Interactive has […]
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Esports week in review: Levi de Weerd back to back European champion, Rocket League season 3 theme and dates announced, and more.
Rocket League season 3 theme and dates announced. Rocket League Season 3 will be launched from April the 7th. On the Rocket League website Epic Games speak of the “most high-octane season yet”. With the Formula 1 season having kicked off just last week, Epic has picked an appropriatetheme for their football-race game. Season 3 […]
Esports week in review: FaZe player falls asleep during Fortnite tournament and misses semi-final, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to be turned into esports-paradise, Garena announces Free Fire World Series 2021 and more.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be turned into esports-paradise. Great Britain wants to convert Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, the main location of several high profile events in the past such as the Olympic games in 2012, to an esports paradise. This was gathered from the release of plans of Here East, one of […]
Esports week in review: ESL Pro League groups, Riot Games asks Valorant professionals not to teabag, EPIC League s3, FIFA player banned for life and more.
ESL Pro League Season 13 groups are announced The groups for ESL Pro League Season 13, one of the, if not THE biggest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league in the world, have been announced. ESL Pro League Season 13 will feature a prize pool of 750.000 $. Except the grand final matches will be played in […]
Esports week in review: PES eEuro2021 to kick off 15th of March, Levi de Weerd European FIFA champion
PES eEuro2021 to take place in March While several Pro Evolution Soccer players and teams are gearing up for the eEuro2021, some of them have optimal preparation by means of an international friendly PES tournament. Monday the 15th of March the PES competition will find it’s conclusion, but this week has PES fans mouth wateringly […]
Esports week in review: Exclusive interview with Vejrgangs record breaker Damian Sitaram
POST Esports Masters Luxembourg announced POST Esports Masters Luxembourg was announced last week with big competitions for FIFA21 FUT, League of Legends and CLASH ROYALE. Registrations just opened and with a prize purse of 2.700 € for the FIFA21 competition for instance, there is enough reason for Luxembourg players to be interested. If you want […]
Esports week in review: Mercedes brings in F1 Esports-champion Jarno Opmeer, Brawlhalla esports championship 2021 announced with 1.000.000 $ prize purse, R6S world championship postponed
Mercedes brings in F1 Esports-champion Jarno Opmeer Mercedes announced their drivers for the next season of F1 Esports Series. In the virtual race world reighning champion Jarno Opmeer will be contracted by the champions from the actual real world racelaps. This means Alfa Romeo loses their star man and former team Renault junior driver. Jarno […]
Structural Changes for League of Legends Top Franchise LCS
One of Riot Games biggest franchises and perhaps one of if not the biggest esports betting franchise in the world, the North American League of Legends Championship Series (or the LCS for short) has been a prime fixture in esports since its introduction in 2013. It has recently fallen under some scrutiny however following the […]
Esports week in review: NAVI win BLAST Premier Global Finals, FaZe Clan and Manchester City to host esports tournament, Rainbow Six Siege World Cup in Paris and more.
NAVI WIN BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 The first big CS:GO tournament of 2021 was the conclusion of the 2020 season of BLAST Premier, with their BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 featuring a whopping 1.000.000 $ prize purse. CIS juggernaut Natus Vincere, or NAVI in short, was the strongest team despite going into the consolation […]
Esports week in review: PGL host CS:GO major with record amount of prizemoney, chess finds its way into the esports landscape, and Anders Vejrgang goes 450-0.
PGL CS:GO major in Stockholm with record amount of prizemoney PGL announced a comeback in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with their PGL MAJOR STOCKHOLM 2021. They already divulged it will have the largest prize pool in the CS:GO history with 2.000.000 $ on the line, and it is said to be the first Major that will […]
Esports week in review: Club Brugge into CS:GO, CHRISLITO wins another eMLS title and more.
Club Brugge esports expands from just FIFA to Counter-Strike. Club Brugge esports will expand their scope of view, literally and figuratively, by including Counter-Strike : Global Offensive (CS:GO). The club also announced they will be targeting more games in the future besides EAsports FIFA, which they already supported for two full seasons of Proximus ePro […]
What Could BlizzConline Have in Store?
The big event put on by Blizzard each year, Blizzcon, found an unfortunate cancellation in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – but not to be held back, Blizzard announced that the huge event would be moving to an online platform during the start of 2021 with February announced as the date for the […]
Esports week in review: Formula E with 100.000 €, Anders Vejrgang 420-0, and more.
Formula E championship with 100.000 € and test in actual FE-car for esports champion. Formula E is setting up a new esports competition, under the project name “Accelerate”. The championship will count six racedays, has a 100.000 € prize purse and a test in an actual FE-car for the champion on the line. The championship […]
Esports week in review: ESEA announces new season, and more.
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 […]
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 […]