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Six Invitational 2019 – Quarterfinals: G2 Esports vs. Spacestation Gaming
SpaceStation made one more valiant effort to make it a tied game getting to 5-6, but it wasn't enough as G2 clutched the last win for a 7-5 victory, taking the series 2-1 and moving onto the semifinals. WINNER: G2 Esports (2-1) We're live in Montreal for the Six Invitational 2019, where the best of the[...]
The ECS Changes Thing Up for Season 7 SC:GO Competition
The ECS (Esports Championship Series) has made a couple of changes for 2019, both cosmetic and in the way they're governing CS:GO tournaments First, FACEIT has slightly rebranded itself with a new logo that you can see below, going for a more modernized version of the old flame logo and making it look more like an[...]
Twitch Rivals Will Launch Two Apex Legends Challenges in February
Respawn Entertainment and Twitch have decided to partner up for a new esports competition as Apex Legends steps into the Twitch Rivals arena In a two-part competition that will air live on twitch on February 12th and 19th, 48 Twitch streamers will be competing live for $200k in prizes That's enough to give the game 16 three-player squads,[...]
Capcom Pro Tour Reveals Their 2019 Schedule With a New Trailer
The company revealed everything in the esports schedule to come for 2019 on their website, showing that rather than denying tournaments the rights to use Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, they're simply going to join in the fun and run the tournaments themselves How you personally feel about that is up to you, but we[...]
League of Legends Gains Secretlab as a Global Partner
League of Legends make partnership deals all the time with different companies in different regions, but they just scored a new global esports one with Secretlab The deal will basically have Secretlab gaming chairs on stage for the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) and the three premier global events with The Mid-Season Invitational, the[...]
PUBG Institutes a New Esports New Profit-Sharing Program
That's a pretty cool offer that not too many esports leagues even offer privately on the down-low to popular teams Here's a little more info from the press release. credit//PUBG Corp. "We are nothing without our teams and players, so it's critical that we develop these programs to support our competitive scene and help teams build their[...]
Capcom Announces North American Esports Street Fighter League
Capcom has announced a brand new North American esports league today for one of their properties as we will be seeing the Street Fighter League launch this Spring This new league will feature 3-on-3 team battles in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, with six teams formed from a mix of vets, newbies, and players that are[...]
Fortnite's Secret Skirmish Event Offering $500k Prize Pool
It looks like Epic Games is going to raise the stakes a little with their first Fortnite esports event of the year with a $500k prize pool on the line The announcement was made on the game's official Twitter account this morning, promoting their upcoming Secret Skirmish with some minor details pointing to it being held[...]
X018 – PUBG comes to Xbox Game Pass
The National PUBG League, the premier esports league for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in North America has released the schedule and format for 2019 The 2019 NPL season is being produced in partnership with OGN and will consist of three distinct phases. Each phase will feature four different types of events: The National PUBG League, which features the top[...]
Rogue Esports Accumulated $10.8 Million in Latest Funding Round
credit// ReKTGlobal Rogue Esports and parent company ReKTGlobal announced a $10.8 million Series A funding round thanks to a group of expert investors The esports venture company's financing was led by entrepenuer and musician Nick Gross who will now join the board of ReKTGlobal Other investors participaing in the Series A funding round included EDM producer Steve Aoki, several[...]
PUBG
In a recent search for players using radar hacks on their games, the company got much more than they were bargaining for as they snagged several professional esports players who have competed in PUBG tournaments. On the company's TwitLonger profile, they issued a statement on these players who were caught and issued some stiff penalties, which[...]
Organizers Have Created a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Tournament Rules
It took a few weeks, but a number of people came together before the big Genesis 6 tournament to create official esports rules for Super Smash Bros Ultimate With Nintendo volunteering to stay out of the esports scene (because of their view that games should be fun, not competitive), it's usually up to the tournament[...]
The Bleeding Cool Top 25 TV Influencers 2019: The Complete List
With a concentration on live-events being one of the "new" network's main focuses, "New FOX" has another ace up its sleeve programming-wise: no longer part of a major company that owns its own production studio, the network can court independent production studios such as Lionsgate, MGM, Sony, and Warner Bros. Not having to give priority to in-house series[...]
Regarding Women, esports, and "Ellie"
credit//Blizzard Women in esports is a pretty touchy subject on multiple sides There are the fans who think women don't do well in professional esports because women are bad at games There are the conspiracy theorists who think the only women who are good at esports get to their top ranks due to cheating[...]
The Bleeding Cool Top 25 TV Influencers 2019 Countdown: #25-#21
Not having to give priority to in-house series – as well as a move towards partial ownership of the shows it buys – will put "New FOX" in a better bargaining position than the other "Big Four." CDF Gaming #23 eSports Are you one of those people who think to themselves, "Why would anyone want to watch other[...]
Bandai Namco is Looking Into Launching Their Own Esports System
According to Variety, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada is now heading up an esports division within the company to devise a strategy toward Bandai Namco holding their own esports tournaments and programs, the same as how Riot Games and Blizzard operate their own Which, of course, would focus on their three biggest fighting game IPs with[...]
Dragon Ball FighterZ Pulled From Two Tournaments for Unknown Reasons
Two tournaments in the past month have pulled the fighting game from their esports lineups, EVO Japan and Anime Ascension, with the latter citing "unforeseen circumstances" as the reasoning A few different websites have speculated that Toei, the company that owns the Dragon Ball IP, may be sending out their own cease and desist letters to organizers[...]
Panda Global is Making an Esports GameCube Deck for the Switch
Ultimate came out, there would be people in the esports community who wanted a GameCube controller And while there are licensed options around, apparently some people are so desperate to work with the original GameCube controllers they've owned for years To the point where esports team Panda Global is going out of their way to make[...]
Soulja Boy Says He's Going to Launch His Own Esports Team
Looks like Soulja Boy is going in on gaming full-time as the word is out that he plans on launching his own esports team in the future The news comes to us from TMZ Sports, who caught up with the rapper where they usually catch up with everyone, at LAX getting to the horrible Delta gate,[...]
Hollywood Esports Will Hold a Paladins Open Tourney at TCL Chinese Theater
Hi-Rez Studio's Skillshot Media and Hollywood Esports will be combining forces next week as the two will hold an open tournament for Paladins. The event will take place on December 18th at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on Hollywood Blvd, in which competitors will be fighting for $1,000 and two TCL Chinese Theatres annual passes, 43" TCL TV's, additional gaming peripherals,[...]
Blizzard Will Be Scaling Back on Heroes of the Storm
They also had the unfortunate task of letting esports players know that Heroes Global Championship and Heroes of the Dorm would not be returning in 2019, effectively killing Blizzard's official participation However, no mention was made whether or not that would affect independent leagues or if they would show support to any of those moving forward. You can[...]
Call of Duty World League Scores an Impressive Set of Sponsors
This morning, Call of Duty World League showed off their new set of sponsors going into the 2019 esports season, and they scored some impressive names Aside from the fact that it will be presented by PlayStation 4 during the entirety of the next run, joining in the sponsorships will be Astro, SCUF Gaming, Mountain Dew Amp, and[...]
Razer and Williams Esports Come Together for New Partnership
This week, Williams Esports came together with Razer to form a new partnership, specifically working with the Williams Formula 1 team Like a lot of esports partnerships, Razer is providing the team with some essential gear to both train and show off at events, specifically working with their latest high-end Blade laptops Not to mention future[...]