by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 12, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
My first game of Supraball, I spent the entire match trying to pass to people using the shoot command. My second game, I realized there was a pass button for teammates and a shoot button for scoring. By game three, I had scored a goal. With every game, I saw my...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 11, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
SERIES 1: TEAM DIGNITAS VS FLYQUEST We hate to love a one-sided series, but boy did we love this series. DIG, who had once been favored so high, who dethroned C9 and who constantly surprised analysts, was defeated by Flyquest in a quick 3 – 0. Although FLY played...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 8, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Facebook has just announced a partnership with Hi-Rez Studios’s hero-shooter Paladins. The partnership will combine what fans of Paladins were already using Facebook for – such as finding groups and games – with a vastly wider network of streaming content, essentially...
by Jordan Love | Sep 7, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Earlier this year, Blizzard opened their first ever esports arena. Unfortunately for North and South American Blizzard fans, that arena was located in Taipei. Now, Blizzard is opening another esports arena, over 6,750 miles away from their first one. The creatively...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 7, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
ROUND 1: TEAM DIGNITAS VS FLYQUEST via LoL Esports Before last week’s match, we would have heavily favored DIG in this matchup, but it has got to be difficult for even the most hardened competitors to shake the absolute trouncing that CLG delivered to them in the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 6, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
The highlight of this week has to be Game 4. This should come as no surprise, as we covered it in our recap of the week. Not only was it the Series ending game, securing TSM the crown of best in the NA LCS, but it was a huge turnaround for TSM. It had all the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 4, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
In the entirety of the NA LCS, no Finals have delivered as hard as the 2017 summer Finals have. Upsets, sweeps, reverse sweeps, grunge matches – it was chaos in the best and truest way. Not only that, but we didn’t stick our foot entirely in our mouth with our...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 1, 2017 | Esports, Esports section
As universities across America step up efforts to grow eSports – including offering scholarships and departments – Korean eSport company ROX Gaming has launched a gaming academy looking to move eSport growth into the more private sector. This move is in line with a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Aug 31, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
To no one’s surprise, TSM has made it to the finals. This marks their tenth consecutive qualifier for the finals – no easy record – but only three teams have ever taken the title of best in the NA LCS. The question now is if this IMT roster is more superior than their...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Aug 30, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
For much of the summer split, CLG was a dominating force. Aphromoo and Sixxay performed as a near unstoppable duo, Huhi outperformed and surprised mid laners left and right, and Darshan was used as a split pushing machine. But this series saw their fall. Whether it...
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