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eSports Weekend Calendar: February 6 – 8, 2015
It’s a little quieter on the eSports front this week in terms of competition. With IEM and Assembly Winter 2015 last week and no equivalents this week, SC2 and CS:GO fall off the calendar. It looks like it’s just League and Dota with a bit of Hearthstone thrown in for a bit of variety. There is a bit of cool eSports news and a new app that I want to write up a quick report about for tomorrow. Keep your eyes open for that.
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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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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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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: 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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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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DreamHack Summer Hearthstone Tournament Ends in Controversy
The biggest tournament in the short eSports history of Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card game should have been a landmark moment for the game. Instead, the tournament’s final duel resulted in a controversial finish to the event. While RDU won the tournament with a 3-0 win over Amaz, the fans certainly weren’t happy with how the final played out.
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Blizzard Reveals Curse of Naxxramas Adventure Mode
Just when you thought you were over your Hearthstone addiction, Blizzard drags you back in again. Blizzard used their PAX East panel to unveil the first expansion to the Hearthstone card collecting game: The Curse of Naxxramas single-player adventure mode.
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Hearthstone Officially Launches
While it seemed like enough people were in the perpetual Hearthstone beta that it seemed like it may as well been considered released, Blizzard announced that it’s free-to-play card game was officially open for business to all gamers.
On Tuesday afternoon, Blizzard officially announced that the inn was open and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft was launched for all gamers to play.
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