Category Archives: eSports
eSports Weekend Calendar: October 17 – 19, 2014
If you’re a League of Legends fan, the whole year comes down to Sunday. It’s Samsung White vs. Star Horn Royal Club for the World Championship on Sunday in Seoul. You’d probably peg Samsung White as the favourite heading into this match as they’ve won 12 of 13 maps played during the World Champion tournament (that one loss was to Team Solo Mid in the quarterfinals). It’s been a bit closer for SHRC who cleared the group stage with a 5-1 record but scraped through their playoff matches in two 3-2 victories.
Elsewhere, Hearthstone has a pretty big tournament as TakeTV hosts SeatStory Cup II this weekend. StarCraft 2 is taking a bit of downtime before the WCS World Finals at BlizzCon but BaseTrade is filling the gap with a 32-man tournament. And The Summit 2 and Synergy League continue with their group stages.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: October 10 – 12, 2014
There are two world championship playoffs this weekend that fans of those games will want to keep their eyes on. League of Legends has the two World Championship semi-finals this weekend ahead of next Sunday’s World Championship Final. Meanwhile, StarCraft II has the final regional WCS playoff for WCS America which will set the field for the World Championship at BlizzCon.
Elsewhere, a couple of tournaments for Hearthstone and CS:GO will have their playoffs this weekend, complete with finals. And if you’re looking for Dota 2 league action, ESL One New York in the Madison Square Garden Theatre is this weekend.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: October 3 – 6, 2014
As the eSports seasons start to wind down to a close, there’s a lot of big matches this weekend. The quarterfinals of the League of Legends World Championships are this weekend as we’ve reached the final eight. StarCraft II”s WCS Europe is also down to its final eight and will crown the Season Three champion this weekend and likely confirm a few more trips to the WCS Global Finals. The GSL is well past the final eight. This Saturday is their Season Three final that pits soO who has finished 2nd in the last three GSLs and Innovation who needs to win to have a shot at BlizzCon.
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MLG Building eSports Arena in Columbus
Major League Gaming is going to add a third major production facility to its portfolio of studios. With a studio and headquarters in New York City and the recently announced MLG Gaming Arena in China, MLG is going to add to its footprint by constructing a new flagship venue in Columbus, Ohio, called the MLG.tv Columbus Arena.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: September 26 – 28, 2014
If you’re a MOBA fan, you have your choice of action from the big two this weekend. Star Series action is happening all weekend in Dota 2 while the League of Legends World Championships continues with Group C and D action.
Two more eSports are in action at DreamHack Stockholm this weekend. StarCraft II has another mega 96-player tournament with a trip to the $75,000 DreamHack Winter tournament and the even more valuable WCS Points on the line as we run up on BlizzCon and the World Championship Series finals. Also at DreamHack (and making its first appearance on the eSports Weekend Calendar) is an eight-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive invitational tournament with $10,000 on the line for the champions.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: September 19 – 21, 2014
After a week away from League of Legends, it comes back in full force in this week’s eSports Weekend Calendar. It’s the start of the group stages for the 2014 World Championship. The sixteen top teams are playing down for the $1,000,000 championship grand prize. This week is the group stages with the playoff stages next week.
Elsewhere, StarCraft II features the Red Bull Battle Grounds grand final with Red Bull Battle Grounds: Washington tournament. Over in the Dota 2 space, Sina Cup 5 wraps up this weekend with the upper and lower bracket finals on Friday and the Grand Final on Sunday. And ESL One continues its qualifiers for the big New York event at Madison Square Garden.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: September 12 – 14, 2014
It’s all quiet on the League of Legends front this week as we’re in between league play and the Worlds which starts next week. However, there is a world-class tournament in StarCraft II this weekend. KeSPA is holding an individual tournament that features some of the best players in the world, including a who’s who of Proleague and WCS stars, in the KeSPA cup. There is also the slightly controversial (because of its location) DreamHack Moscow tournament. That one isn’t quite as loaded with the premierist of the premiere talent but DreamHack’s are always good for a big surprise or two.
Elsewhere, there’s action from Hearthstone and Dota 2 for you to watch this weekend. Basically, if you’re looking for League, you’re out of luck this weekend. Otherwise, you’re in great shape.
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The Full Lineup for IEM Toronto is Announced
The first visit of ESL’s StarCraft II flagship series to Canada looks to have nothing short of an all-star lineup. We already looked at the twelve qualifiers and invitees to IEM Toronto which includes seven of the top ten players in the World Championship Series points standings.
With a week until the tournament starts, IEM and ESL announced the group drawings for the tournament and the sixteen participants in the Dual Tournaments for the last four spots in the Round of 16. The lineup is one of the most stacked tournaments of the year outside of the WCS and a must-watch for SC2 fans.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: August 22 – 24, 2014
If you’re a StarCraft II or League of Legends fan, there is a lot for you to watch this weekend. The road to the Red Bull Battle Grounds Grand Final in Washington continues with their second 128-player open tournament of 2014. The winner will be the final qualifier for the $50,000 event so there’s a lot at stake this weekend in Detroit.
Meanwhile, League of Legends continues the road to the World Championship with the finals of China’s LPL and the start of the North American LCS playoffs.
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Riot Isn’t Interested in Crowdfunding eSports Prize Pools
Just because The International was able to add over $9 million to the prize pool thanks to crowdfunding via sales of the Compendium and ESL boosted their prize pool for ESL One: Frankfurt the same way doesn’t mean that crowdfunding prize pools is for everyone.
Riot Games’ head of European eSports, Jason Yeh, has come out as saying they’re not interested in getting fans to contribute to their World Championship pot with an anonymous employee being a lot more blunt with his opinion.
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