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EsportsThe Final Exciting Match In The Smite World Championship
In which a team of five video game players wind up with a giant check for $1.3 million dollars and some lovely trophies. I spent the weekend at theSmite World Championshipsin Atlanta, watching live as eight teams from around the world were whittled down to two — Cognitive Prime from the U.S. and Team Titan…
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Watch The Million Dollar Smite Final Between Two Unlikely Competitors
The Grand Finals of the Smite World Championships kicks off at 2:30 PM Eastern time today, as a U.S. team expected to be knocked out by its sister squad and a European open invitational underdog that made it to the competition by the skin of their teeth battle for a $1.3 million grand prize. Hi-Rez…
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Seinfeld Characters Would Do The Silliest Things in eSports
The formula is given, and it’s worked before: Plot lines from Seinfeld with Kramer the visionary, George who just can’t pull it together, Jerry and Elaine whining about everything, and Newman plotting something evil in his apartment, all squeezed into short tweets with something extra added. This time it’s eSports. Esports Seinfeld’s twitter is full…
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EsportsHow A First-Year eSports Championship Got A $2 Million Prize Pool
Early next month the top eight Smite teams in the world will converge on Atlanta to battle it out over a massive $2 million prize pool. How did a first-year MOBA get a pot so big? The same way DOTA 2 did it — crowdfunding. As Valve used the DOTA 2 Compendium to raise this…
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The Year In eSports
In 2014, eSports and competitive video games were everywhere. Some games and their finals invaded regular sports channels on TV, filled huge stadiums, and the streams pulled hundreds of thousands of viewers. At this point, it doesn’t look like the eSports craze will end anytime soon. From January to December, here are the best eSports-related…
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Watch Top Street Fighter IV Players Battle For The Capcom Cup
Technically they’re battling for a portion of the $50,000 pot up for grabs in the grand finals of the Capcom Pro Tour circuit, but I’m sure the cup is lovely. Let’s see which of the 16 competitors takes it home. The show’s already started, with a demonstration of the wacky changes coming in the Omega…
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Counter-Strike Instructional Maps Are Works of Art
Here’s a really cool new perspective on DustII (or de_dust2), one of the most popular maps in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. NinjaFish on Tumblr chopped up and transformed the multiplayer map from 3D to 2.5D and labeled each part their respective names. This is something I’d decorate my wall with and it’s also helpful if you’re…
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EsportsChaos Ensues When Six LoL Commentators Talk At Once
The West is definitely catching up to Korea not just in terms of gameplay skills and popularity, but casting, too. A fun exhibition League of Legends match between two pros at this weekend’s IEM tournament in San Jose were casted by no less than six commentators. And, as you can see and hear above, this…
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EsportsOne Of The Greatest Rivalries In StarCraft History
You can’t talk about competitive StarCraft: Brood War without two names coming up: Jaedong the Tyrant and Flash, aka The God of StarCraft TodayRazer launched Team Razer: Great Games, a video series that aims to be the definitive eSports documentary, and no definitive eSports documentary would be complete without the story of how Lee “Jaedong”…
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EsportsThe StarCraft II World Championship Series Ends Tonight. Let’s Watch.
The biggest crowd draw at BlizzCon every year is the global finals of the StarCraft II World Championship Series. With $100,00 on the line and a returning champion in the final bracket, this year the crowd should be bigger than ever. Thank goodness we don’t have to bother with them. The grand final was supposed…
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