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The Celtic eSports League is a new FIFA competition that features eight football clubs from the UK and Ireland. Crusaders FC, Dundalk FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Hibernian FC, Linfield FC, Shamrock Rovers FC, TNS FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are all on board and the first competition is already underway. …
Read More »Twitch opens up to non-gaming content with IRL section
Twitch has announced a new section called IRL that allows streamers to broadcast non gaming related content. Until now Twitch has only allowed gaming or creative content, although the introduction of the food section and the many Bob Ross marathons made this rule a little pointless. Now that rule has …
Read More »Dignitas sign Ssumday and Chaser for 2017 LoL roster
Team Dignitas has announced that it has signed both Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and Lee “Chaser” Sang-hyun. Both players will play for the team in the 2017 North American LCS Spring Split, pending Riot’s approval. Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho will be the team’s top laner, and is regarded as one of the …
Read More »FeniX, Solo, Santorin and Rikara are Gold Coin United’s first players
Earlier in the week it was announced that NRG Esports had sold its slot in the North American Challenger Series to J2K Esports and Technology, now the first members of the new team have been revealed. The team from J2K Esports and Technology will be known as Gold Coin United, …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 4: Fnatic’s new Dota team
Over the next few days will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s CS:GO woes in 2016 and while today he jumps into the Fnatic Dota 2 teams recent roster changes. After the …
Read More »MLG Las Vegas to be streamed on YouTube and MLGTV, no sign of Twitch
MLG has announced that it has partnered with YouTube to broadcast the MLG Las Vegas Call of Duty and Overwatch tournament this weekend. Matches, news, and analysis from the event will be shown on the MLG YouTube channel throughout the weekend, along with a stream on the MLG EVE player …
Read More »Real Betis joins VFO eSports league
Spanish football club Real Betis has signed three FIFA team captains in order to build a team for the upcoming VFO eSports league. The league features three 11v11 competitions, one for PS4, one for PC and one for Xbox One. Betis has signed Antonio “Tasteya” Coto to lead the PS4 …
Read More »PSG announce League of Legends roster
Paris Saint-Germain has announced its starting roster for the upcoming EU Challenger Series split. The team will feature Etienne "Steve" Michels in the top lane, Thomas "Kirei" Yuen in the Jungle, Jin "Blanc" Seong-min in mid, Hampus "sprattel" Mikael Abrahamsson as the support and Na "Pilot" Woo-hyung as the AD …
Read More »NA LCS prize pool increased, relegation tweaked
Riot Games has revealed the changes coming to the North American LCS in 2017, and there isn’t all that much different. The big talking point in that relegation has been tweaked, just like in Europe, so that only the bottom two teams will have to play in the promotion tournament. …
Read More »EU LCS goes to best of threes, has a new group stage format
Riot Games has announced the new format and broadcast schedule for the European LCS in 2017. The big news is that after just one split playing best of twos the EU LCS will now transition to best of threes, which the NA LCS tried out last year. Riot said that …
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