Eric Van Allen

Cloud9 Talk Over Their Boston Counter-Strike Major Win

Cloud9’s win at the Eleague Boston Major was a huge one, for the team and North American Counter-Strike in general. Broadcast house Beyond The Summit sat the team down, less than a month later, to rewatch a reel of its finest moments and talk over them. It’s really cool any time you get a peek…

Scarlett Is Currently Dominating StarCraft, One Match At A Time

Earlier this week, Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn made StarCraft history at IEM Pyeongchang 2018, defeating two-time world champion sOs. Last night, she chalked up more wins against the world’s best. Scarlett is shaking up the modern StarCraft scene one game at a time, and shows no sign of slowing down. Defeating Joo “Zest” Sung Wook and…

Seoul Dynasty Wins Game But Falls Out Of Playoff Contention

The Seoul Dynasty has had a rocky conclusion to its Overwatch League run. Despite an early start that made them look all but unstoppable, this squad has struggled in the twilight hours of stage 1. And while it started to recover and look more like itself against San Francisco last night, it was too late…

Street Fighter Player Forced To Commentate His Own Match

At last night’s Next Level Battle Circuit, the mic was somehow unoccupied right before Arturo “Sabin” Sanchez’s match against a player who goes by SonicSol, as all the other commentators had seemingly vacated the stream at the same time. Rather than play in silence, Sanchez decided to call his own match. Sanchez is an experienced…

Top League of Legends Team Is Having A Rough Start To The Season

Last night’s League Champions Korea matches were punctuated by another loss for SKT T1. A team known for multiple world championship titles tacked another game into the loss column, and this one was particularly humbling. SKT’s opponent, the Afreeca Freecs, have historically upset SKT across several seasons. For some reason, the Freecs have SKT’s number.…

Dota Pro Falls For The Bait

In last night’s StarLadder i-League Dota Invitational, reigning TI7 champs Team Liquid fell for an early ruse that led to first blood and more for their opponent, Mineski. Mineski picked a lineup of heroes like Ursa and Shadow Fiend, meaning it was theoretically possible they could kill Roshan before the horn sounded. Killing Roshan is…

Former NASCAR Driver Scott Speed Suspended From iRacing For Trying To Intentionally Wreck Opponents

Former NASCAR and Formula 1 racer Scott Speed has been suspended from popular simulation racing game iRacing after footage of him attempting to intentionally crash into other players surfaced. Speed confirmed to The Drive that he’s been suspended from the game for actions captured in a Twitch clip from streamer Jake “YTBigz” Hewlett. iRacing is…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Has People Debating Fighting Game Notation

Dragon Ball FighterZ has been a wildly popular game, but it’s also resurfaced some old discussions among the fighting game community—namely, numpad notation. The method for transcribing long strings of combos has varied over the years, thanks to different games having different inputs. Street Fighter has punch and kick buttons, while other games like FighterZ…

Struggling Overwatch Dynasty Finds Important Win In Last Night’s Matches

Last night’s clash between the Houston Outlaws and the Seoul Dynasty in the Overwatch League was dire for both teams. One was trying to keep a streak alive, another recovering from two straight losses, and both still posturing for a playoff berth. Seoul has been in a rut after falling from undefeated to 5-2, galaxy-braining…

Golden Guardians Fire Locodoco As Coach [Update]

Golden Guardians have announced that just two weeks into the season, they have fired head coach Yoonsup “Locodoco” Choi ahead of this weekend’s games. The Golden State Warriors-owned League of Legends team is currently 0-4 in the 2018 North American LCS season. In several interviews leading up to the season, GM Kirk Lacob and players…

There will be a World Cup tournament with a prize pool of at least $500,000 for the mobile MOBA Arena of Valor in July. An insider at Tencent told Compete that this is the start of a larger roll-out of tournaments, and that teams like Liquid and Vitality will be in attendance.

A Loser From The Anime Series Is Now One of Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s Biggest Badasses

Android 16 drew the short straw in the Dragon Ball Z anime series. A villain-turned-hero, he was designed to kill Goku, but he mostly just got wrecked by Cell for the better part of the show’s run. He ends up being a nice pal, but really, Android 16’s defining moments in the series combat-wise are…

The Houston Outlaws Lost Their Map Streak But Kept Winning

The Houston Outlaws extended their 16-map unbeaten streak to 18 before the San Francisco Shock finally snapped it in the third map, but that was just a blip en route to a fifth straight match win. Their 3-1 win moved them to 5-2 on the season and could give them a chance to move into…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Fantastic For Newcomers

Unlike team games like Dota 2 and Overwatch where losing is always someone else’s fault, fighting games can make you specifically feel like shit. I’ve picked up and put down so many fighting games over the years rather than pile up losses with no one else to blame. But Dragon Ball FighterZ is somehow different.…

Boston Counter-Strike Major Ends In Nail-Biting Double Overtime

After a hard-fought series that went into double overtime, the North American hopefuls Cloud9 have won the Eleague Counter-Strike Boston Major. Cloud9 came into the finals as the underdogs, having bounced back from an 0-2 in an earlier stage of the tournament to climbing the playoff bracket, picking off favorites like SK Gaming in the…

Rocket League Open Ends In Clutch Overtime Goal

Today’s grand finals between G2 and Paris Saint-Germain managed to go the full distance. It was the champs against the fresh-but-fierce PSG squad, and it all came down to a single goal in extra time. The DreamHack Open finals, held in Leipzig, were a back-and-forth affair, but momentum seemed in G2’s favor after two straight…

Majin Obama And Tasty Steve Deliver A Passionate Fighting Game Sermon

Last night’s Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 action at the inaugural Evo Japan was incredible, but it was the lead-up to the final match that really stuck with me. The commentators gave a surprisingly moving speech about the passion and dedication of the fighting game faithful, the culture of the community, and putting soul into…

Overwatch Teams That Stick Together, Get Stuck Together

In today’s Overwatch League matches, the Dallas Fuel learned a hard lesson about everybody funneling through the same door. As the team backed up into a side area, the Boston Uprising’s Namju “Striker” Gwon was waiting on Tracer. With a sticky Pulse Bomb primed and ready, Gwon snuck in and stuck one, catching four members…

FIFA Pro Dribbles Circles Around The Defense

At today’s FIFA 18 Ultimate Team event in Barcelona, Kurt1 put a devastating game up on opponent MegaBit, highlighted best by this dribble around a buzzing hive of defenders that resulted in a goal. You can follow the rest of the games today and tomorrow on EA Sports’ Twitch channel

Guilty Gear Player Gets Emotional After Taking Down Evo Champ

It might have been intimidating for Mikado’s own Shodai to get into the top 64 of Evo Japan’s Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 tournament and find himself facing Omito. It was definitely an emotional moment for Shodai to beat him. Some of the world’s best have congregated in Japan for their respective games, and among…