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With the Overwatch League gone and the new Overwatch Champions Series happening as we speak, FACEIT has revealed they will start running more Overwatch 2 tournaments The OWCS has been slowly gaining popularity on Twitch since it launched this year, replacing the League and opening up competition to well-known and mature esports groups alike Now,[...]

ESL FACEIT Group announced that they will be holding the Snapdragon Mobile Masters during DreamHack's return to Japan in May 2023 The inaugural event, which will be sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, will be taking place from May 13th-14th at DreamHack Japan It's an interesting addition to the lineup as they will be a part of[...]

In one of the more interesting partnerships to come from esports, FACEIT and Gucci have come together to make the Gucci Gaming Academy The luxury fashion brand has partnered with the organization to bring about a new initiative with the goal of empowering young esports talents and creating "a healthier playing and competition environment." The[...]

HyperX announced this week that they have partnered with FACEIT to sponsor their collegiate esports leagues for 2021 According to the announcement, the partnership will span the recently revealed FACEIT collegiate programs for CS:GO, League of Legends, and Valorant, with all of them having a combined prize pool of $55K The two companies will venture[...]

We're getting a new CS:GO tournament as Red Bull and FACEIT have come together to create the Red Bull Flick international tourney This new Pro-Am event will be 2v2 and will feature multiple championships and qualifier types This includes National and Pan-National tournaments, which will take place on FACEIT This system apparently originated in Turkey[...]

One of the more recognizable esports leagues will apparently be shuttering activities, as new reports say FACEIT will be shitting down the ECS According to Jarek "DeKay" Lewis writing for DBLTAP, multiple sources say the ECS will cease operations this year, as FACEIT has signed a new deal for another esports league The company has[...]

FACEIT has officially announced the schedule and changes for Season 8 of their CS:GO Esports Championship Series (ECS) in North America and Europe Season 8 will have a new and improved ECS format, which was developed alongside the players and teams to tackle oversaturation in CS:GO Players can sign up now to compete in the Opening[...]

FACEIT announced earlier today that they will be running the first official Quake Pro League in partnership with Bethesda Softworks The new league will kick off at QuakeCon 2019 and run all the way until the same event in 2020 Competitions and ket events will take place at some of the bigger tournament conventions across[...]

This evening, the OP Gaming Rangers have officially staked their claim in the FACEIT Global Summit: PUBG Classic, taking the championship and part of the $400k prize pool 24 teams across several regions were vying for the prize with some of the biggest names in esports having a team in the running, but at the[...]

FACEIT announced today that, in partnership with T1, they will host the first official Apex Legends esports tournament in North America The official name of this will be the "Apex Legends Invitational" and will happen in Santa Monica on March 30th The company plans to invite 20 of the best streamer-lead teams to compete online[...]

This week, FACEIT formally announced all of the CS:GO teams who will compete in the ECS Season 7 Challenger Cup from March 5th-7th We have all of the teams below from both the North American and European fields, both the invited teams and those who qualified Considering all of the teams involved, this could easily be a landslide[...]

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 organization But on top of that, the way the tournaments will be held and organized has changed a bit to encompass what appears[...]

Today, FACEIT officially launched PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds competitions on their platform, drawing in over 200k players in competitions The entire purpose, besides bringing in new players to the platform, is to give those withing to go pro on the esports circuit a place to show off their skills and rankings and try to make a career out of[...]

FACEIT has just made a pretty cool accomplishment as far as esports goes, declaring their most recent event, the CS:GO London Major, to be the third most-watched streamed event ever According to their numbers, the event drew 57 million views on Twitch, with a total of 61 million hours watched That would put them in third[...]

FACEIT has decided to make a move into the battle royale spectrum of competitive gaming and partnered with PUBG Corp over a new venture a beta version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will launch on the platform on August 17th in beta form, which you can sign up to be a part of right now[...]

FACEIT has officially announced that it will be holding the largest esports event in the UK this September with the FACEIT London Major 2018 for CS:GO happening this September Apart from the fact that this is one of the bigger tournaments on the CS:GO circuit with a prize of $1M prize pool on the line, the[...]