Category Archives: eSports
eSports Weekend Calendar: January 30 – February 1, 2015
For the first time since December, we’re back with another edition of the eSports Weekend Calendar. I think I picked a good weekend to get back into the swing of watching eSports. IEM is back for the first time since San Jose with a trip to the other side of the world for IEM Taipei. Assembly Winter 2015 has SC2, Hearthstone and ASUS ROG CS:GO action. The various League of Legends pro leagues are up and running. DOTA 2 fans aren’t left out in the cold either with the Asia Championships and MLG Pro League underway. There actually is something for everyone this weekend.
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Twitch Buys GoodGame Agency, Including Evil Geniuses and Alliance eSports Teams
Not only is Twitch is in a being acquired sort of mood lately but they’re also in an acquiring sort of mood. This week, the leading online game streaming service announced that it was buying one of the top companies in eSports. Twitch announced the acquisition of the GoodGame Agency, an eSports marketing company whose portfolio includes leading eSports teams Evil Geniuses and Alliance.
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YouPorn is Sponsoring An eSports Team
When popular online porn video site YouPorn said that they wanted to sponsor an eSports team, we all had a good laugh at the possibility, made the typical jokes about gamers, basements and pornography and moved on with our lives. It turns out that YouPorn was more serious that many were willing to give it credit for.
This weekend, YouPorn unveiled their new eSports team, Team YP, as it competed in the Gamergy Dota 2 tournament.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: December 5 – 7, 2014
The big feature in this week’s eSports Weekend Calendar is ESL’s first standalone IEM event in North America. Usually, IEM events are run at big comic or gaming conventions but IEM San Jose breaks that mould by running at San Jose’s SAP Center, home to the NHL’s San Jose Sharks. IEM San Jose has both a League of Legends tournaments with some big North American and European teams and an SC2 tournament that will hand out the first WCS points for 2015.
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LDLC Overcomes Cheating Scandal to Win DreamHack Winter CS:GO Tournament
That French eSports team LDLC won the $250,000 DreamHack Winter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament wasn’t a huge surprise. They’re quite good and experts considered them quite capable of picking up 2-0 series wins in their playoff matchups. The real surprise was the LDLC overcame unusual circumstances that would have sunk other teams en route to that championship.
At one point, LDLC was out of the tournament after the quarterfinals having lost to Fnatic but a scandal over Fnatic using a “pixelwalking” exploit resulted in a protest, forfeiture and a storybook run for LDC to the DreamHack Winter Championship.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: November 28 – 30, 2014
This week see the return of the eSports weekend calendar from a brief hiatus and it’s a busy weekend on the calendar. That’s because this weekend is DreamHack Winter 2014 in Jönköping, Sweden.
At DreamHack Winter, there are big tournaments for League of Legends, StarCraft II, Hearthstone and CS:GO running under the DreamHack banner. The Asus ROG Dream League is also running an event this weekend in Jönköping at DreamHack too. Basically, if you want live eSports action this weekend, you’re at or streaming DreamHack.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: November 7 – 9, 2014
It’s BlizzCon weekend! That means it’s World Championship after World Championship after World Championship from Anaheim this weekend. The big one is the StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals which will see a new champion in 2014 after sOs missed the WCS top sixteen. There will be a Hearthstone World Championship this year after last year’s invitational. And Heroes of the Storm gets its own invitational tournament this year. Personally, I’m hoping for an imminent beta so I can get in on the Heroes action.
If those three games aren’t your speed, you can go a bit more standard with your MOBAs. There are a whole pile of Dota 2 leagues in action this weekend. Failing that, you can always watch a bit of CS:GO.
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Robert Ohlen Fired as DreamHack CEO
DreamHack, one of the biggest multidiscipline eSports event holders in the world, announced over the weekend that they were firing CEO Robert Ohlen just one month before the final DreamHack event of the year, DreamHack Winter.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: October 24 – 26, 2014
We’re another weekend before Blizzard starts with its various World Championship tournaments so we’re in a bit of a holding pattern this week. I guess that’s unless you’re a CS:GO fan, in which case you’ll be interested in HITBOX Arena Championship Grand Final on Sunday afternoon. Otherwise, Dota 2 and StarCraft II have the group stages of some smaller tournaments to keep your attention this weekend.
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Samsung White Win League of Legends World Championship
It might not have been for $5 million but that doesn’t make any less sweeter for the champions. Korean team Samsung White capped off a spectacular run through the 2014 League of Legends World Championship with a dominant 3-1 victory over Chinese team Star Horn Royal Club to win the championship and a $1 million prize.
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