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Pro Overwatch Player Demolishes Opponent In Three Simple Steps
Ana is everybody’s favorite Overwatch sniper mom, and what better way to show off those motherly instincts than by telling Genji to gtfo when the ninja pops in uninvited. In yesterday’s Sweden vs. Brazil group stage match for the Overwatch World Cup, Sebastian “chipshajen” Widlund did just that against a very outmatched James “soulive” Luigi.…
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The League Finals Are Playing Out On Top Of A Giant Projection
The Staples Center in L.A. is home to the Lakers, Kings, and a number of other teams. It’s also where the championship finals for League of Legends are being held this year. Even though the game plays out on a digital map stored in cyberspace, the organizers behind the event clearly felt the teams needed…
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The League of Legends 2016 World Championship Finals Are Tonight, Here’s What You Need To Know
Tonight, one team, SK Telecom T1, chases its third-ever League of Legends World Championship win, while another, Samsung Galaxy, shows us if it has any tricks left up its sleeve to prevent that from happening. Matches will begin at approximately 7:30PM EDT, held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. You can watch them…
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The Overwatch World Cup Is Going On Right Now
Everyone has been waiting for Blizzard to sponsor a large-scale Overwatch tournament in the mold of League of Legend’s Worlds or Dota 2’s The International. So there was some disappointment when the company explained its plans to host a World Cup-style tournament for its new competitive shooter at this year’s BlizzCon. But Blizzard has also…
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Esports
The Weekend In Esports: End Of The Worlds
This weekend is jam-packed. Not only do the 2016 League of Legends World Championships wrap-up later tonight, but with BlizzCon just around the corner, the best and brightest from around the world will be competing in everything from Overwatch to World of Warcraft: Arena, with group play in many of them taking place this weekend.…
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EsportsBig Risks Don’t Pay Off In Last Night’s League Semifinals
It turns out Josh “Jatt” Leesman was right when he trolled the League of Legends World Championship audience with his prediction for the semifinal series between Samsung Galaxy and H2K Gaming. “H2 What?” the panel asked him. “H2…Korean teams in finals!” And the glibness of the joke was in many ways appropriate, as SSG went…
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Team Liquid Signs The First Pro Civilization VI Player
Stephen ‘MrGameTheory’ Takowsky will be Civilization VI’s first professional player. That’s according to an announcement Team Liquid made yesterday stating it has signed MrGameTheory to head up their new Civilization team and was embarking on “an initiative to launch Civilization VI into the world of competitive esports.” MrGameTheory, who previously competed in Clash Royale, had…
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EsportsWhen An Unstoppable Force Meets An Immovable Object, SK Telecom T1 Wins
Despite an impressive first game from the two-time winners of the League of Legends World Championship, ROX Tigers looked set to beat their more senior South Korean rivals in the best-of-five semifinals against SK Telecom T1. It wasn’t until game four that SKT was able to claw their way back into things and tie the…
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Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Fakest Of Them All
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion,” wrote David Thoreau in Walden. This weekend is kind of similar. There might be a lull before BlizzCon 2016, and less action than usual in the fighting game community, but the final act of Worlds…
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EsportsDaigo Uses Sixth Sense To Block Sonic Booms, Wins Tournament
Daigo Umehara is a legend when it comes to fighting games. Referred to sometimes as Daigo “The Beast” Umehara, the pro Street Fighter V player didn’t exactly need to win the European Regional Finals to qualify for Capcom’s Pro Tour. He would have gotten in on points alone. But that didn’t stop him from comfortably…
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South Korea Still The Best At League Of Legends According To World Championships
There were three teams representing South Korea when the League of Legends World Championships began late last month. Now, a few weeks and many matches later, all three teams have made it through to the semifinals. SK Telecom T1, ROX Tigers, and Samsung Galaxy even did so without seeming to break a sweat, showing just…
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Esports
Technical Difficulties Spark Debate Over Rocket League Tournament Rules
Week three of the Rocket League Championship Series began with a match-up between Revival and NRG. Both teams came into the day with two wins so far this season, and no one expected either side to easily walk away with another. It was Revival, however, who came away empty handed, losing a hard fought series…
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Pro Overwatch Player Fined For ‘Lewd Comment’ About Interviewer
Timo ‘Taimou’ Kettunen, a member of competitive Overwatch’s Team EnVyUs, was fined by the South Korean esports network OGN for making “a lewd comment” in a Twitch chat about one of its interviewers. Taimou made his sexist remarks during an interview with Thomas “Morte” Kerbusch of REUNITED after the latter was defeated 3-0 by Team…
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Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Capcom Pro Tour And League of Legends Quarterfinals
While the rest of the competitive gaming world is relatively quiet this weekend, things are heating up in League of Legends with the Worlds 2016 finals quickly approaching at the end of the month. The Capcom Pro Tour is also going strong, with a ton of action kicking off in Italy as Milan Games Week…
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EsportsDota 2 Player Accuses Former Team Of Mishandling Prize Money
Earlier today, Jack ‘EternaLEnVy’ Mao published a nearly 7,500 word blog post accusing leadership within Team Secret of being, well, secretive about how it handled prize money, sponsorship deals, and a whole host of other financial matters. His remarks were archived here after the traffic they originally generated crashed his blog EternaLEnVy joined up with…
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EsportsProfessional Smash Bros. Continues To Grow With Luminosity Gaming’s Latest Signing
Pro Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player Yuta “Abadango” Kawamura has signed with Luminosity Games, according to an announcement made by esports organization last night. The news comes in the middle of the The Big House 6 tournament currently going on in Michigan and after a string of other recent signings over the past…
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