Category Archives: eSports
Intel Extreme Masters is Coming to Fan Expo
It was just speculation when IEM Canada first announced but the folks behind Fan Expo have made it official. This August’s stop on ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters tour will be coming to Toronto as part of Fan Expo Canada.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: July 10 – 13, 2014
While this weekend’s eSports calendar has the upcoming action in StarCraft and League of Legends, the next two weeks are all about Dota 2 and the rest of eSports is just fighting for what little viewership is left. Yesterday marked the start of The International 2014 for a prize pool of over $10 million. Yesterday was the Phase One qualifier for the 16th spot in the tournament. Through Saturday, it’s the 16-team round robin followed by two days of the Phase Three playoff to get us to the eight-team elimination bracket.
Well, I suppose that’s unless you’re a fighting game fan. This weekend is EVO 2014. The big fighting game convention / tournament starts on Friday in Las Vegas and runs through Sunday.
Elsewhere, SC2 has the semi-finals of the Acer TeamStory Cup and Red Bull Battlegrounds in Atlanta. And League of Legends continues the regular seasons of their top-flight professional leagues.
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Team Liquid Earns 16th Spot in The International 2014
The world’s biggest eSports tournament kicks off round robin play today. Before the sixteen-team round robin began, the 16th team had to qualify for The International. After a four-team playoff among regional qualifier runners-up, it was Team Liquid who reigned supreme and earned the final entry to The International.
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IeSF Ends Male-Only Restriction in Tournaments Following Hearthstone Controversy
A controversial week in the world of eSports turned out to have a happy ending. After a Finnish Hearthstone tournament was outed as being male-only and that restriction as having come as a result of the event being a qualifier for the International e-Sports Federation World Championship, IeSF has done a complete rethink on its tournament policies and are eliminating its male-only tournaments and opening them to all genders.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: July 4 – 6, 2014
If you’re a StarCraft fan, this is a big weekend for you. Both WCS Europe and WCS America are wrapping up 2014 Season Two this weekend which brings us one step closer to BlizzCon and the StarCraft World Championship.
If SC2 isn’t your speed, there’s plenty of action elsewhere. The League Championship Series is holding another super week this week so if you’re looking for more League of Legends action, this is the week for you. There’s even some Dota and Hearthstone action for you this weekend. It’s a busy weekend in the world of eSports. This is why I do this calendar every week.
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ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters Announces StarCraft II Tournament in Canada
After the massive success of the 2013 StarCraft II World Championship Series Season 3 World Finals in Toronto, it was only a matter of time before the highest level of competitive SC2 returned to Canada. It won’t ESL bringing WCS Americas to Canada but ESL’s premiere competition series, Intel Extreme Masters, that will be coming to Canada for a stop in August.
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The International 2014’s Prize Pool Tops $10 Million
When the first Dota 2 world championship took place, it was hyped as the chance to become an eSports millionaire overnight as Na’Vi took home a $1,000,000 grand prize for winning the tournament.
This year’s edition of The International will take the idea of becoming an eSports millionaire to the next level. Not only will the winning team pick up the biggest prize in eSports history but each member of the winning team could earn over $1,000,000.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: June 27 – 29, 2014
Just as I start the eSports Weekend Calendar feature, I figure out that it’s a lot harder than I originally envisioned. Every community has their own calendars of varying size but now that ESGN’s website seems to have been shut down, there isn’t one calendar that covers most major eSports. As such, our eSports Calendar won’t have much outside the biggest events for now.
Anyway, this weekend’s eSports calendar has a couple of big events. The 2014 GSL Season 2 final is on Saturday as will see soO and Classic duel in a Best of 7 series for the championship. Dota 2 also gets a massive showcase before this year’s edition of The International. It’s ESL One: Frankfurt from Commerzbank Arena, a football stadium in Frankfurt that hosted five matches of the 2006 World Cup and four matches, including the final, of the 2011 Women’s World Cup. That should be a pretty amazing spectacle.
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Electronic Sports World Cup Adds Just Dance to its Lineup
As much of a fan as I am of eSports, I just couldn’t quite wrap my head around the latest “eSport” to join the offerings at this fall’s Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris.
If you’re a fan of dancing, you now have a reason to be interested into eSports. Ubisoft announced that their next dance game, Just Dance 2015, will be a part of the competitive lineup at the 2014 ESWC.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: June 20 – 22, 2014
I don’t know about the rest of you but I like tuning into a few eSports events over the course of the weekend. The problem is that I often just stumble into most tournaments thanks to notices on Twitter rather than having one go-to list of what’s on during the weekend.
Today, I try to launch a new weekly feature on et geekera. It’s a schedule of some of the bigger eSports events of the weekend including links to where you’re likely to find them.
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