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Esports
Street Fighter‘s Best Character Continues To Look Beautiful
Blanka will come to Street Fighter V on February 20 with all his classic obnoxious moves, plus a flummoxing Gumby-like costume. Even without an embarrassing outfit, Blanka has his share of detractors because he’s a reactive character with “troll” moves that work best as punishments for an opponent’s mistakes. Blanka’s haters will doubtless feel all…
By Maddy Myers Published February 12, 2018 -
Esports
Commentator Just Straight Up Drops Smash Player’s First Trophy
Last night, Brian “Cosmos” Kalu won his first-ever trophy for Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, and then almost lost it. Kalu and his doubles partner Rei “komorikiri” Furukawa won the two-on-two bracket last night at Frostbite 2018. In the post-game interview, commentator Richard “Keitaro” King Jr. almost gave new meaning to the term “Smash…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 11, 2018 -
Esports
London Win Overwatch Stage 1 Playoffs In Reverse Sweep
After a long, almost 12-hour day of competition, the London Spitfire emerged victorious last night in the first stage playoffs of the Overwatch League. After dropping two maps to the New York Excelsior, the Spitfire surged back and took three straight to reverse-sweep the finals and win the playoff bonus. Though the stage playoffs have…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 11, 2018 -
Esports
Houston Makes Overwatch Stage 1 Playoffs After Do-Or-Die Final Round
The second of today’s matches would determine who would continue on to tonight’s playoffs, so of course, it went the distance. The Houston Outlaws and the Boston Uprising seemed to match each other blow-for-blow, all the way to map five, round three, each determined to shape the playoffs to come. Because of tiebreaker rules, Boston…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 10, 2018 -
EsportsCloud9 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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 10, 2018 -
Esports
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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 10, 2018 -
Esports
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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 10, 2018 -
Esports
The Weekend In Esports: CS:GO, Smash 4, And More Overwatch
Between Frostbite in Michigan and Dota 2 qualifiers in Eastern Europe, the esports action continues across the globe this weekend, including some big matches in the lead-up to the Overwatch League’s first mini-tournament championship. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what…
By Ethan Gach Published February 10, 2018 -
Esports
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Won’t Be On The Capcom Pro Tour
Things just keep getting worse for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Just days after the game was publicly snubbed by the Evolution Championship Series, Compete has learned that the latest installment of the storied Marvel vs. Capcom franchise won’t receive the same support as its sibling, Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour was established by the…
By Ian Walker Published February 9, 2018 -
EsportsMobile MOBA Vainglory Upgrades To 5V5 Next Week
Back in 2014, Super Evil Megacorp launched Vainglory, a mobile multiplayer online battle arena game featuring streamlined three-on-three battles on a simple one lane map. On February 13 the game updates to Vainglory 5V5, bringing it closer to both its PC cousins and its main competitor,Tencent’sArena of Valor. Super Evil Megacorp is calling Vainglory 5v5 “no…
By Mike Fahey Published February 9, 2018 -
EsportsHow Far Can Rick Fox And The Yankees Take Esports?
Turn your TV dial to the Yankees’ YES network next Wednesday, and instead of finding a documentary about Mickey Mantle or a replay of the 1998 World Series, you might end up watching a match of H1Z1 or League of Legends. It’s not just an offseason thing, either—the New York Yankees, baseball’s most storied franchise,…
By Jack Moore Published February 9, 2018 -
EsportsFortnite Pro Gets Fired After Saying He Would ‘Dare’ Suicidal People ‘To Do It’ [UPDATE]
Yesterday, partnered Twitch streamer and Fortnite pro Jordan “Scubby” Selleck said on a stream that if anyone he knew threatened suicide, “I would dare them to do it, and then I would never talk to them again.” (The topic came up after another Twitch streamer said she had been having suicidal ideations.) Scubby also repeatedly…
By Maddy Myers Published February 8, 2018 -
Esports
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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 8, 2018 -
Esports
Scarlett’s StarCraft II Victory Shows How Esports Could Work For The Olympics
Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn made history for both women and non-Korean StarCraft pros last night by placing first in a premier tournament, IEM Pyeongchang 2018. The Canadian defeated two-time world champion Kim “sOs” Yoo Jin playing as the Zerg, her old standby, in a 4-1 victory. She’s the second North American pro to ever place first…
By Maddy Myers Published February 7, 2018 -
Esports
Report: Geguri Will Be The First Woman Signed To An Overwatch League Team
Overwatch League has no women players, a fact that’s been glaringly apparent ever since the league’s debut media event, where Korean pro Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon’s name came up multiple times. Now, however, a report from ESPN claims that Geguri’s signing to an OWL team, the Shanghai Dragons. ESPN cites “multiple sources close to the players…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 6, 2018 -
Esports
Punk Destroys Street Fighter V Rival, Tells Him To ‘Know Your Place In This World’
The only true way to resolve a trivial spat in the fighting game community is by squashing the disagreement in-game, with the defeated opponent getting trash talk rained upon them after. Victor “Punk” Woodley is a relative newcomer to the world of fighting game competition, but he’s quickly risen from the ranks of trash-talking netplay…
By Ian Walker Published February 5, 2018 -
Esports
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.…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 4, 2018 -
Esports
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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 4, 2018 -
Esports
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…
By Eric Van Allen Published February 3, 2018