Esports

Heroes Of The Storm Pro Team Loses To…A Computer

Well this is embarrassing. Earlier this week, Cloud9 Maelstrom and compLexity—two of the top teams in Heroes of the Storm’s nascent eSports scene—faced off as part of Blizzard’s ongoing “Road To Blizzcon” tournament. As The Daily Dot reported, compLexity was “hungry for a win” as they’d only just barely secured themselves a spot in the…

The Score has compiled a helpful database of all the roster changes for League of Legends pro teams taking place in-between the spring and summer splits. Give it a read if you’re having trouble keeping track of everything.

League of Legends Pro Quits, Burns Every Bridge On His Way Out

Burnt out and tired of playing for a losing team, professional League of Legends player Austin “Link” Shin announced last night that he was leaving the game. He did so in a bombastic way: writing an 18-page screed that called out nearly all his former teammates, coaches, and ultimately the game itself. Link retired from…

Heroes of the Storm’ first international tournament, “The Road To Blizzcon,” is kicking off later this month, Blizzard announced this morning. Regional tournaments starting in late May will decide which 8 Heroes teams will make it to the finals held at Blizzcon this November. Prize pool is $1.2 million. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Mid-Season Invitational, one of League of Legends’ biggest annual eSports events, is getting started today. As in: right now. You can follow along on Riot’s Twitch channel. Woo! Contact the author at [email protected]

Top League Player Returns To Old Team After Losing Badly With New One

The Daily Dot revealed yesterday that rockstar Swedish League of Legends player Martin “Rekkles” Larsson is joining the European pro team Fnatic. Transers happen all the time in eSports, of course. What made this one interesting was that Rekkles had just left Fnatic last November. The prodigal son returns! Rekkles transferred from Fnatic in November…

League Of Legends Gets Skins Modeled After Championship Players

In case winning $1 million wasn’t enough to properly reward Korean League of Legends team Samsung Galaxy White for their victory at the 2014 World Championship, Riot has come up with another way to keep the players’ glory days going a bit longer. A lot longer, actually. The snazzy “Samsung White Championship Skins” that were…

Halo: MCC eSports Event Canceled Because The Game Wouldn’t Work

Holding an online tournament requiring teams form parties to play against each other only works if the teams can form parties, and so the first round of ESL’s Halo Championship Series Open bracket was canceled over the weekend. Excitement was high for Saturday’s tournament, in which Halo: The Master Chief Collection teams from across North…

Smash Bros Pro Is Getting Sponsored By A Hentai Site

Hentai, for those not in the know, is anime and manga-themed porn. It might not seem like the greatest fit for eSports, but equally strange things have happened If it sounds like a joke, you’re not actually far off. Turns out, it began as one. Smash Bros pro Adam “Coastward” Hermosa explained his strange relationship…

Top League Of Legends Player Retires Following Persistent Wrist Injury

Hai Lam, the team captain and accomplished player for the North American League of Legends eSports team Cloud9, has been pushed into retirement due to a longstanding wrist injury. While Hai said that he’ll stay on in C9 as its “Chief Gaming Officer,” his departure comes at a critical time for his beleaguered team. Just…

High School Teachers Coaching League Of Legends Teams Is A Great Idea

Yes, there is a high school history teacher who moonlights as a popular League of Legends player. He’s known by his very apt in-game handle “HISTORY TEACHER.” Now, like so many of people his students’ age, the guy has bigger dreams of going pro in his favorite video game. History Teacher posted a YouTube video…

Watch The World’s Best Pikachu Player Defeat Smash Bros. Gods

Wanna see a Pikachu in a party hat wreck some Fox McClouds? Of course you do. It’s not often that we see Pikachu make it super far in a top Smash Bros. competition—the character isn’t particularly high on the Melee tier list, and many of the players flock to more traditional characters like Fox and…

One Of The Closest Heroes of the Storm Matches

This is a match between two pro teams NaVi and Team Kick playing on Sky Temple during the Monthly Final of the Go4Heroes Tournament. It was shared by esports veteran Khaldor. And it’s intense. NaVi’s early game pressure is awesome and full of close calls. But it gets really ugly later on with a lot…

Competitive Call Of Duty‘s Biggest Star Steps Down

“I felt like I was playing to not lose…I wasn’t really playing to win.” Following a seventh-place finish in last weekend’s Call of Duty Championship, Matthew “NaDeSHoT” Haag has stepped down as captain of OpTic Gaming and away from competitive play. “I’m kinda tired of being the scapegoat for the team,” said Haag in a…

The grand finals of the 2015 Call of Duty Championships are happening today. Which of the 32 competing teams is going to walk away with $400,000? Head over to the Major League Gaming event site to watch live and see which 29 teams are definitely not winning.

The top 32 Call of Duty teams in the world are squaring off this weekend in Los Angeles for part of a million dollar prize pool. Catch all the action from the 2015 Call of Duty Championship liveover at MajorLeagueGaming.com. It’s a refreshing change from watching teams of five fight over three lanes.

One Of League Of Legends’ Worst Champions Made A Surprising Comeback

One of this past weekend’s League of Legends championship series games shocked fans thanks to the arrival of a hero character who hasn’t shown his hideously mutated face in the eSports scene in quite some time: Urgot. Even more unexpected was the way he carried his team to a resounding victory. League of Legends pro…

The Future Of StarCraft II

StarCraft II‘s final expansion is right around the corner. The end—some kind of end—is in sight. What happens afterward, though? While Blizzard’s definitely going to pull the curtain closed on StarCraft II‘s multi-part story (a major component of the two major expansion packs), the plan is to keep updating for a lengthy span of time…

StarCraft II  Mod Swaps Unit Abilities, Makes Everything Confusing

“RaceSwap” is an awesome, yet confusing mod where all three factions of StarCraft II get retextured to look and act like a different faction. Protoss units and buildings now look Terran, while Terran looks like Zerg and Zerg looks like Protoss. Even if you are familiar with the game, with blinking Marauders and flying Hatcheries,…

A Quake Tournament Where Nobody Knew How To Play Quake

The longer a competitive game’s around, the less its high-level matches resemble matches between typical players. Pros begin whipping out plays that blur the line between technique and exploit. So what happens if you press the reset button on all of that? Some people consider Quake III and its spin-offs to be the forgotten rulers…