Eric Van Allen's discussions

It’s especially rough considering the schedule goes way late into the night for the east coast, and it’s currently almost 1 a.m. for London fans who might be staying up to watch the Spitfire’s run after the Florida-Philly match. Read more

Map differential is basically the number of maps you’ve won minus the maps you’ve lost. Blizzard uses that to break up ties in placement when teams have the same win-loss. Read more

They’re living in the area for this season. The plan is to eventually have all the regional teams playing home and away games from their home cities, but for now, it’s all taking place in the Blizzard studios. Read more

Korea vs. the west has been a narrative stretching all the way back to StarCraft, when South Korea had the best of the best in the game and it was always a question of whether any other region could compare. Read more

Yup, several Overwatch League and League of Legends LCS teams have sports investors or owners. Read more

If your most significant achievement in an anime about fighting is that you died, that’s not a strong case. Read more

In fairness to Yamcha, he had his moments in the series. Well. In Dragon Ball at least.

Yes it should, thanks for noticing that. Morning coffee had not quite kicked in yet. Thanks for the spot! Read more

Ah yes, I meant to say he was looking for a win on two different teams but flubbed it. Updated the above to clarify. Read more

....damn. Read more

That’s a really good question! The league’s commissioner Nate Nanzer answered that earlier this week. Read more

Hey, I’m not sure why I thought you could repair the stopwatch. I’ve updated the post to make it clear it’s a one-time use until you upgrade. Thanks for catching that! Read more

The viewpoint here is from spectator mode, so it wouldn’t show the player bringing up the map screen. Read more

946 looks to be the world record in an LCS match, set by Zven in 2016. Read more

I dug the LA match purely for LA, they really showed up to play. Granted it might have been the matchup, but their supports are damn good. Read more

Fleta was terrific on just about everything last night, he was really a nightmare for Dallas to deal with. Read more

A Darkstalkers with Arc System Works graphics would be incredible. Read more

Sprite art is awesome, but Arc System Works does good modern work with their Guilty Gear games.

And getting ban-listed for downloading the map in a lobby. Read more

I’ve been a fan of Pajkatt and zai for a long time, so I’m really hoping the team pulls it together. There’s still plenty of road before TI though. Read more