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The groups for the first stage of the League of Legends World Championship have been drawn, with group D hosting many of the world’s best teams. Group A sees Korean champions Rox Tigers face off against European champions G2 Esports, North America’s Counter Logic Gaming, who won the spring split …
Read More »The Professional eSports Association is another new CS:GO league
The Professional eSports Association is the latest CS:GO league to be announced, featuring top North American teams and player ownership of the competition. The PEA CS:GO league will start in January of 2017 and will feature Team Solomid, Cloud9, Team Liquid, Counter Logic Gaming, Immortals, NRG eSports and compLexity Gaming, …
Read More »AEG and ESL form long term partnership
AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, and ESL have formed a long term partnership to broaden the reach of esports around the world. The partnership will allow ESL to use AEG’s venues, which includes the likes of the Barclays Center, The O2 Arena, and Oakland’s Oracle Arena. …
Read More »FOX Sports Executive Pete Vlastelica is the new CEO of MLG
Activision Blizzard has appointed Pete Vlastelica as the new President and CEO of Major League Gaming. Vlastelica was Executive Vice President of Digital at FOX Sports before making the switch, prior to that he sold his online sports network Yardbarker to Fox in 2010. According to the announcement Vlastelica will …
Read More »LDLC signs Overwatch team Le Mixx
LDLC has signed the former Le Mixx Overwatch roster, which features some of Europe’s best players. The new LDLC team is made up of Guillaume KabaL” Ettori, Rikard Klanton” Lundberg, Tarek .kr4tosdigga?!” Ekmekci, Metehan Mete” Akst, Mihail Mezamorphis” P?unecu and Toni ube” Hkli. Tarek "kr4tosdigga" Ekmekci previously played on Graviton …
Read More »$75,000 Overwatch tournament heading to the Gfinity Arena
The Overwatch MGA 2016 Championship Presented by MSI has been announced with a $75,000 prize pool and a LAN final at the Gfinity arena in London. Four of the world’s best Overwatch teams will compete at the Gfinity arena on December 7th and 8th for the title of MGA world …
Read More »Epsilon eSports replace Natus Vincere in ECS Development League
Epsilon eSports has replaced Natus Vincere in the ECS CS:GO Developmental League as the latter pulled out of the competition at the last minute. Epsilon will now play in the developmental league portion of the ECS Season 2 competition, competing against seven other European CS:GO team to try and book …
Read More »Dignitas HotS player AlexTheProG retires from competitive play
Alexander "AlexTheProG" Grumstrup, a member of the Team Dignitas Heroes of the Storm team, has retired from competitive play. AlexTheProG will be replaced on the Dignitas roster by Lawrence "Athero" Harper, who is coming over from Team Liquid. Athero previously played on the Dignitas roster, and will now be playing …
Read More »Huma banned from all of Riot’s leagues
Huma, a Challenger Series League of Legends team, has been banned from all Riot sanctioned leagues after failing to pay its players. A ruling from Riot reveals that Huma has been chronically late in paying its players the League-mandated Minimum Player Compensation” throughout the year. At the start of August …
Read More »Cloud9 picks up a Vainglory team
Multigame organisation Cloud9 has signed the former Nemesis Hydra Vainglory roster, marking its first entry into the mobile eSport. The acquisition comes just before The Battle in Seattle tournament due to take place this weekend. The new Cloud9 squad will be playing in this event, which is serving as the …
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