by Nicholas Armstrong | Aug 1, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
Cloud9 faced off with their former support and shotcaller last Sunday when they fought Echo Fox. Just a week after leaving the team citing frustrations with being benched, Smoothie was with his new team and setting out to prove something. Although he was quick to say...
by Jordan Love | Jul 31, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Season 1 of the Overwatch League just concluded, but Blizzard isn’t wasting any time hyping season 2. It was recently confirmed that an Atlanta Overwatch team would be joining the fold next season. Cox Enterprises, a Georgia company that includes Cox Communications,...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 31, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section
It was announced on the League of Legends developer’s board that Riot has been experimenting with a new game mode that will be debuting in patch 8.16. Rioter SpaceNorth took to the boards on Tuesday to say that alpha playtesting would begin for the new mode as of...
by Jordan Love | Jul 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News Section
The London Spitfire have won the first ever Overwatch League Grand Finals. It wasn’t always pretty, but at the end of the day the London Spitfire squad are the ones going home with $1 million and the title of OWL Grand Champions. Spitfire took down the Philadelphia...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 30, 2018 | Esports section, Indie, News, News Section
It’s no secret that Fortnite wants to get into the competitive scene. It’s the most popular game around, its numbers dominate Twitch and YouTube, and patch v5.10 seems an awful lot like Epic Games is looking to ramp up the competitive side of the game. Events like the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
After Week 6, 100 Thieves and Team Liquid are the only two teams still tied for first, but the difference between first and last has only grown smaller. OpTic, FlyQuest, and Golden Guardians all look like different teams from last split, and even Cloud9 has crawled...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
The pieces of the Cloud9 puzzle have finally come together. After a surprise move where Smoothie was traded to Echo Fox for Feng, details are finally emerging about what happened to Cloud9.Cloud9 have been fumbling their way through the Summer Split, and fans have...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
The trade deadline has come and gone, and rosters are locking in for what will be the teams eligible to go to Worlds. Surprisingly, only Echo Fox did any real roster shifts, but they did them with Cloud9, a team that has been heavily criticized this entire split. In...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News Section
Patch v5.10 brought so much content to Fortnite that it was easy to miss some of the more important details. The patch brought with it birthday celebrations, the return of Playground Mode and the new Compact SMG, which is an insanely fast firing weapon. What was less...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
Rick Fox might be the biggest sports name in esports, but he certainly isn’t the only one. Team SoloMid’s parent company – Swift – recently finished a round of funding that saw them raising $37 million. Among those investing were Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala of...
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