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Finn karrigan” Andersen has been benched by Astralis after months of the team underperforming. Karrigan was the team’s in game leader, calling the shots and making all the important decisions. However ever since the Astralis organisation was formed by the five members of the team earlier this year, they have …

FC Schalke 04 will host the Schalke 04 Scouting Days 2016, aiming to discover talent for its League of Legends team. The five day event will take place at the Gelsenkirchen’s VELTINS Arena, with Shackle scouts watching players’ every move. The five best performers over the week will be sent …

Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao wrote a 7,000 word blog accusing his former team, Team Secret, of taking an unwarranted 10% cut of his winnings among other things. In the blog EternaLEnVy explains that Team Secret were withholding payments, and when he finally got a break down of what he was owed …

In game purchases have boosted the League of Legends World Championship prize pool by more than $2 million. 25% of all purchases of the Championship Zed skin and the Championship Ward are directly added to the prize pool, while 30% of team icon sales are sent directly to the teams. …

After thousands of requests from players over the years Riot Games is finally adding a replay system to League of Legends. Currently players wanting to watch replays of their games must use third party software or simply record the action as they are playing. However this is a bit of …

ESL One New York, which took place in the Barclays Center last weekend, brought in six million unique viewers and broke engagement records. Online viewership peaked at more than 450,000 concurrent viewers, which is presumably split across both the CS:GO and Street Fighter V action. This translated into six million …

Yet another European football team is entering the world of eSports, this time it’s Paris Saint-Germain, the current French league champions. PSG has signed a partnership with the WEBEDIA group, which owns French organisation Milleniun and organises tournaments in the region. Through this partnership PSG will create its own eSports …

FACEIT will host the Capcom Pro Tour EU Regional Finals at Milan Games Week later this month. The first day of competition, October 15th, will see 256 players compete for one of two remaining slots in the main competition. The next day will see all 14 of the players who …

The last major Call of Duty tournament of the Black Ops 3 season has been canceled due to Hurricane Matthew, which is due to hit Florida this week. UMG Orlando was due to take place this weekend between October 7th and 9th, however with Hurricane Matthew also expected to hit …

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