eSports Archives

We got a chance to chat with Mari about her career for the past year or so, what drove her to getting involved with the esports team, and her plans for the future. Credit: Spacestation Gaming BC: Hey Mari, how have things been going for you this year? MT: Hey hey, thanks for having me! Well, this year[...]

The Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 concluded this afternoon as three new players have earned spots in the 2021 World Championship.

This week, Riot Games announced they have appointed a new Global Head of League of Legends Esports with Naz Aletaha Her full title is Head of Global Esports Partnerships and Business Development, which puts her in the most executive senior role in the division According to the announcement, she will be taking on a ton[...]

The team behind the events will be taking all of their different levels of competition all the way through Januar, as the program offers a total prize pool of $15,000,000 for 2021, making it the highest in mobile esports history With the pinnacle of this hitting in November when the Global Championship takes place on[...]

Those teams include G2 Esports, Guild Esports, Team Liquid, Vodafone GIANTS, Tenstar, Acend, Futbolist, fnatic, Supermassive, Heretics, Anubis, FPX, Gambit, BIG CLAN, BDS, and one more team that will be added in an Open Qualifier That qualifier spot will start holding competitions on October 18th, which you can find out how to sign up for[...]

Blizzard Entertainment will be bringing Season 2 of Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 to a close this weekend with the last World Championship.

Ubisoft has finally rescheduled the 2021 Rainbow Six Major as the event will be taking place in Sweden this November.

You can read more about the event below along with some quotes from organizers. Credit: DreamHack The 24-hour, non-stop festival will feature an array of esports tournaments, as well as fighting games, amateur and college varsity gaming tournaments, the world-famous 24-hour LAN party, cosplay championships, live music concerts, table top, expo, panels, speedrunning, indie playground, free play[...]

Logitech G along with several partners launched a brand new Adaptive Esports competition over the weekend looking to have regular events The company has partnered up with The AbleGamers Charity, Adaptive Action Sports, Beyond Entertainment, Challonge, and the Mount Sinai Health System, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance in New York City to bring about[...]

Bandai Namco announced today they will be holding a special esports tournament tour for their online Nintendo Switch game Pac-Man 99 This is going to be one of those interesting kind of events, especially during the pandemic, as they are going to be holding everything online instead of going for the in-person event people have[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed their plans for the 2021 Hearthstone World Championship as it will take place online this year.

Red Bull and Wizards of the Coast have partnered again for Red Bull Untapped as they hold a new global tourney for Magic: The Gathering.

The brand's NBA2KL esports tournament will be open to West Coast gamers at all levels of expertise The event will be held across five states that sit on the west side of the United States (though we're a little dismayed to see they put Arizona in and not add Utah or Idaho in the mix),[...]

Spacestation Gaming announced today that Mari "AtomicMari" Takahashi has officially become the new co-owner of the esports organization The finer details of the deal weren't revealed, but we do know Takahashi will be working alongside the team's founder Shaun "Shonduras" McBride, as well as Sean Holladay and Takahashi's business partner Peter Kitch For those unfamiliar[...]

This weekend marks the end of the road to glory as four teams in each region enter the arena for their share of the $300,000 (USD) prize pool and the prestigious title of AWC: Shadowlands 2021 Grand Finals Champions! Skill Capped is the European team to beat, with a Season 1 EU win already under their[...]

Riot Games announced they have a new League Of Legends esports event coming as the Wild Rift Horizon Cup will happen in November The company decided to do this one in style and will apparently be holding an in-person event in Singapore to celebrate the end of the 2021 preseason The goal of this tournament[...]

Psyonix released details today about the upcoming 2021-2022 season for the Rocket League Championship Series and how it will run.

Voting coupons can be obtained by purchasing thematic PCS5 items or by using "codes" that will appear during a PCS5 broadcast. Players who vote and correctly predict the outcome of matches will earn Esports Points (EP), which can be redeemed for additional in-game items For the "Pick The Winner" event, participants can vote up to 7[...]

We have more info from Riot from the announcement below, and you can check the link above for the full set of events to take place starting next month. Credit: Riot Games "We are thrilled to host an incredible Worlds experience in Iceland, the locale that provides us with the best opportunity for the most teams and[...]

Red Bull announced this week they will be throwing a special esports event for Street Fighter V called the Subway Showdown The team will be throwing a special two-weekend event where local gamers to the NYC area will battle it out at borough qualifiers All for the chance to represent their borough in an intra-city[...]

Sponsored by Google Play, the Summoners War World Arena Championship Americas Cup competition will begin on Sunday, September 12 at 11:00am PDT and will be streamed in seven different languages on the official Summoners War Esports YouTube channel. The top eight Summoners War: Sky Arena players from America will compete in a single elimination tournament for[...]

For a period of time, especially with events like PAX West and Gen Con happening this month, it looked like the esports event might actually have a chance of happening in person at the Georgia World Congress Center However, due to the rise in cases caused by the Delta Variant for COVID-19, organizers decided to[...]

It seems like an oddity, but up until now, Team Liquid has not had a President presiding over the esports organization as a whole That all changed this morning at the company officially announced they have appointed media and digital veteran Claire Hungate as the new President & COO, effective immediately According to the info[...]

Blizzard Entertainment announced this week that the World Of Warcraft Mythic Dungeon International will kick off Season Two on Friday.

They're following up on the success of last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual which took place in June 2020, and produced some interesting moments for esports racing This new global elite series will consist of five rounds, with her final one happening in mid-January 2022 We have more info below on the entire[...]

Red Bull announced this week they will be holding their third U.S. League Of Legends qualifier for the Red Bull Solo Q tomorrow online.

Tomorrow, Alienware is launching a new esports series that will be taking part over the next several weeks called the 2021 Alienware Games Starting on Friday, August 27th, and running until October 7th, the games will be holding special tournaments across four highly popular esports titles as players will compete against each other in Fortnite,[...]

Alienware is launching a new esports series to happen over the last bit of the summer called the 2021 Alienware Games Starting on August 27th and running until October 7th, the games will be holding special tournaments across four highly popular esports titles as players will compete against each other in Fortnite, Valorant, League Of[...]

If you haven't heard of the VR Summer and Winter Games, that's because it's still a new (but growing) event.

Krafton Inc. announced today that Tyrese Gibson (Fast & The Furious) will be joining the PUBG Mobile 2021 Team-Up Challenge.