by Nicholas Armstrong | Jun 15, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
There has to be a good reason behind benching all the biggest stars on your team. Despite the owners and coaches assuring us it was just stellar play out of the Academy team, it seems particularly odd timing. The truth is, Cloud9 is probably using the Academy to grow...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jun 13, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
For fans of Cloud9 (and just about everyone else) Wednesday was a shock. Only three days before C9 is set to face off against Clutch Gaming Saturday and Optic Gaming Sunday, the team has benched all of their star players. It was announced on Twitter and YouTube that...
by Steven Lunn | Jun 6, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Fans and analysts like to get hyped about players. That’s why Faker is the benchmark for perfection in League of Legends. Even in games where he underperforms, hardly anyone ever discredits him. Similarly, when the hype is building for a certain player, everyone runs...
by Steven Lunn | Jun 6, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Riot takes toxicity seriously, and they are especially serious about it within their own organization. Employees at Riot are even under stricter guidelines than normal players to uphold the summoner’s code and to behave themselves. It is no surprise then that when a...
by Steven Lunn | Jun 5, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
PlayVS is the first official high school esports league sanctioned by the National Federation of State High School Associations and it just raised $15 million in series A funding. The funding came from a variety of sources including the San Francisco 49ers, players...
by Elizabeth Freeman | Jun 5, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
There has been plenty of concern over the OWL. Overwatch is the first video game to ever push for an esport – even franchising it immediately – with zero fanbase built. It is a grand experiment to see if some companies can’t predict – or force – a game into the esport...
by Jordan Love | Jun 1, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News Section, Videogames
Soccer is the biggest sport in the world and League of Legends is the biggest esport in the world. One has magic, deaths, towers, minions, monsters and more. The other has mortals dribbling a ball on a rectangular pitch. They might not have a lot of common on the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | May 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Riot has announced on a recent blog post that they will be partnering with ESPN+ for the 2018 NA LCS Summer Split as well as all major international competitions. In the announcement, they called the move an “evolution” from their original deal with BAMTech. However,...
by Nicholas Armstrong | May 25, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section, Videogames
Fortnite does one thing very well – spectacle. There isn’t any other way to describe their Pro-Am, 100-player match taking place at E3 this year. Pro-Am will be Fortnite’s largest event yet, dwarfing and crushing Ninja’s previous Las Vegas appearance. While Epic Games...
by Nicholas Armstrong | May 21, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Royal Never Give Up has officially won their first major international tournament. RNG’s victory has been three years in the making. Since the organization premiered in 2015, they have had ups and downs, but their record has showed mostly ups. They have consistently...
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