by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 27, 2017 | Esports section, Videogames, weekly
GROUP A: TEAM WE VS LYON GAMING VS GAMBIT ESPORTS Despite WE’s domination, they by no means crushed their enemies. What WE did best was map objectives and late game, consistently making calls to sacrifice kills in order to gain a dragon, Rift Herald, or tower....
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 25, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Before heading to Worlds, many of the international competitors stopped off in Korea for bootcamp, training, and scrims. Korea has long been a hub for bootcamps in League of Legends, but many of these teams used the opportunity of being so close to test the Korean...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 21, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Play-in Group A: team we VS gambit gaming vs lyon gaming Nearly everyone agrees that this series is going to go in the direction of Team We. Not only are they hailing from one of the most dominant regions, but for a third-place seed, they are looking incredibly...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 14, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
League of Legends has just announced a new system to battle toxicity in Brazil. Camp Yordle will run from September 17 - September 19. It will randomly assign players into two groups and judge them collectively based off the negative reports of the individual members....
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 13, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
League of Legend’s 2017 World’s competition isn’t exactly going to be easy, but it’s looking as good as it can for North America. With a total of twenty-four teams competing – including the favored top teams out of China and Korea – it can be confusing to see just...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Sep 12, 2017 | Esports section, Videogames, weekly
We always respect every team and are happy to see them compete, but boy were we rooting for Flyquest. These guys took their break from competitive play seriously, and if CLG hadn’t beat them – which was a good series on its own – we are pretty sure they would have...
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 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...
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