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Red Bull Announces Solo Q League Of Legends Tournament
The event series puts a twist on the traditional 5v5 League of Legends team match, pitting individual players against each other in a bracket of 1v1 duels to crown the best 1v1 LoL player.  "Red Bull Solo Q has brought together so many passionate fans and amateur players from across North America to compete in one of the most unique[...]
100 Thieves Joins The Call Of Duty League With LA Thieves
Esports team 100 Thieves announced they have joined the Call Of Duty League for Season Two with their new team, LA Thieves As you might suspect, the team decided to base themselves in Los Angeles for the team's location, making them the second team out of the city along with the Los Angeles Guerrillas The[...]
Tainy and Lex Borrero Join ReKTGlobal as Latest Investors
The company also made it a point to highlight that Reid is one of the few women C-suite executives in esports, with the number of women in esports, in general, being around 5% Despite the fact that their own numbers say women account for nearly 41% of all gamers in the United States The move[...]
Cox Announces Call Of Duty: Warzone Pro-Am Championship Winners
And you can watch the full event on Twitch. A look at the tournament bracket for the Call Of Duty: Warzone Pro-Am Championship, courtesy of Cox. The competition, powered by Elite Gamer, Cox's new gaming service that enhances the gaming experience by reducing lag for PC gamers, began with open play-in tournaments on October 2nd, 13th, 21st[...]
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You can check out the schedule below and info on how to register to compete. The first open qualifier will take place on October 26th, courtesy of Riot Games. First Strike is the first major chapter in Valorant esports, and we're proud to have the support of two stellar partners to bring it to life — Nerd[...]
Cox & Florida Mutineers Announce Call Of Duty: Warzone Tournament
Cox Communications revealed a new esports event today with the Elite Gamer Call Of Duty: Warzone Tournament Series The event will be hosted by the COD League team Florida Mutineers, with teams competing for cash prizes from a prize pool. $20k will be awarded to the first and second place teams, with $15k going to first[...]
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announced this week the full plans for the Continental Series 3, the latest global esports event for the game while still in quarantine COVID-19 may be preventing players from competing in person, but the tournament is going to be rolling on The PCS3 consists of four regional tournaments across North America, Europe, Asia, and APAC,[...]
Tainy and Lex Borrero Join ReKTGlobal as Latest Investors
The company revealed the massive funding effort which will be put toward hiring and acquisition efforts within the esports community and their organization as a whole According to the info released today, the investment will help support the expansion of ReKTGlobal's product portfolio, as well as "monetize assets and assist with the acceleration of the[...]
The Esports Awards 2020 Announce First Wave Of Finalists
The Esports Awards 2020 revealed their last list of finalists as they show off the Pro and On-Air finalists list headed to November You can check out the full list below as the last set of categories include Coach, Mobile Player, Caster, and Organization of the Year This year's Esports Awards will be officially taking[...]
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Riot Games revealed this past week they will be launching their own official esports competition for Valorant called First Strike First Strike will be a global set of tournaments taking place across North America, Europe, CIS, Turkey, Asia, Oceania, Brazil, and the Middle East Each region will be holding merit-based qualifiers culminating with multiple Riot-produced[...]
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The entire season for the esports division has been insane in 2020 as they went from playing the Esports Arena down in Dallas, Texas back in January to now competing online for their championships at the end of the year Normally this event would take place during BlizzCon, but since that's been moved to February[...]
Tainy and Lex Borrero Join ReKTGlobal as Latest Investors
This morning, ReKTGlobal revealed that the company has a new celebrity investor as Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith has joined the esports group Tiffith joins Steve Aoki, Nicky Romero, Tainy, Landon Collins, Rudy Gobert, and Taylor Fritz as part of the ownership team to oversee pro esports organizations Rogue and London Royal Ravens No word was given[...]
Frenetic Wins The Hearthstone Masters Tour Online: Montreal
Like a lot of esports competitions, this one was held completely online as they plkayed out the current version of the Masters Tour format Frenetic had a long journey ahead of him with no real easy path to victory His final round was tense every game, but he still managed to get the win Here's[...]
F1 Announces Its First Esports Mobile Racing Competition
F1 revealed this morning they will be holding their own esports event as they work to crown a 2020 champion on mobile The league will launch the F1 Mobile Racing tournament today and run it all the way through November as players will race each other for the gold The competition will span across four[...]
Esports Integrity Commission Launches An Investigation Into CS:GO Bug
The Esports Integrity Commission Launches announced that they have launched a new investigation into recent CS:GO cheating issues Multiple coaches from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive were suspended from teams Hard Legion, Heroic, and MIRB for exploiting a bug in the game that allowed them to spectate a game from anywhere on the map they desired[...]
Bethesda Softworks Reveals Details To 2020–2021 Quake Pro League
This morning, PLG Esports along with Bethesda Softworks revealed details for the 2020-2021 season for the Quake Pro League There hasn't been a ton of talk about the League since April, which goes in line with a lot of esports issues as COVID-19 messed up pretty much anything in the works They managed to finish[...]
Respawn & EA Announce Apex Legends Global Series Autumn Circuit.
On September 12 and 13, fan-favorite teams including Team SoloMid, Gambit Esports, Complexity Gaming and more will duke it out in the innovative Match Point playoff format on Kings Canyon and World's Edge for a chance to be crowned ALGS Summer Circuit Champion. The ALGS Autumn Circuit will continue to bring the Apex Legends competitive community[...]
The Dallas Empire Are The 2020 Call Of Duty League Champions
The victory was helmed by Ian "C6" Porter, who was named the Championship MVP at the end of the night, adding to his stats as the winningest player in Call Of Duty esports history since May 2015 Here's a quote from the commissioner about the championship game. Your 2020 champions, the Dallas Empire, courtesy of Activision. "What[...]
PUBG Mobile Reveals Plans For 2020 World League Championship
revealed more details about the rest of the PUBG Mobile esports season today, including the 2020 World League Championship Along with the reveal of Version 1.0 today, we learned that the PUBG Mobile World League (PMWL) and the World Championship will be combined into one event That event will be the biggest global mobile esports[...]
PUBG Corp. Reveals PCS2 North America Grand Final Teams
Those 16 teams include 303 Esports, Any Trolls In Chat, Carnage Gaming, Comets, Dodge, Duel, Fabled, Houston Hardshifts, Illusion, Liberate, Oath, Radiance, Shoot To Kill, Soniqs, Team Veritas, and Zenith Esports The event will kick off on August 27th to crown a new champion, completely online As part of the festivities, starting today on PC[...]
ESL Mobile Open Announces A Season Six Return
What's more, the organization is promoting a special announcement regarding the Season Six Finals will be coming out sometime in the next few weeks. Credit: ESL "We've seen remarkable interest in the Mobile esports space over the past few months," said Kevin Rosenblatt, Vice President, Product & Content, ESL "Mobile continues to be an exciting frontier, ushering[...]
Heroes Of The Storm Gets A New Independent Esports League
When Blizzard made the decision to kill off the Heroes Of The Storm esports division, a lot of players were left disheartened with the company Whether or not the cuts to the game and the programs surrounding it were justifiable has been debated ever since it happened in late 2018 But the people in charge[...]
Activision Blizzard & Google Announces Multi-Year "Strategic Relationship"
His new role at the company will be President of Sports and Entertainment, with him overseeing esports, consumer products, and film and television The job is almost a perfect fit considering the work he's done prior in MLB While the company has a strong esports presence with Overwatch, Call Of Duty, Hearthstone, and others, there[...]