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EsportsWatch The Hearthstone World Championship Finals Live, Right Here
When I win a Hearthstone match I gain a lovely sense of accomplishment. When Tiddler Celestial or Firebat win the Hearthstone World Championship, they’ll get that plus $100,000. I feel like I’m doing something wrong. With the second place winner scoring $50,000, this final best-of-five round is technically one player’s chance to split the other…
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EsportsFive Ways To Lose Like A Winner in eSports
Tutorial Central got me with his third tip of his recent video, which is about losing gloriously in StarCraft II and other competitive games. I’d be stunned if someone paused the game during a carefully planned zerg rush to start talking about a broccoli accident in the kitchen. The other three are classics. And number…
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EsportsWatch The Final Round Of The 2014 League Of Legends Worlds Right Here
With a million dollars and the Summoner’s Cup on the line, it all came down to this final match-up. Did Star Horn Royal Club rectify last year’s loss, or has Samsung Galaxy White come out on top? A season of fierce competition culminated earlier today in a final battle between China’s Star Horn Royal Club…
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CBS Commentator Urges Gamers To Go Play The Real World
“…here’s a fun fact: Did you know the real world is broadcasting in 3-D? All the time? I know, amazing!” Yep, this is going to be one of those. Reader Darius pointed us towards a video that ran today on CBS Sunday Morning, in which commentator and radio host Luke Burbankdiscusses the recent acquisition of…
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EsportsStarCraft II, Turned Into an Arena Shooter
Accessible via StarCraft II‘s free Arcade section, “Unreal Arena” looks like a really fun way to kill some time between matches, and perhaps to practice unit control and micro a bit. It’s a classic 6v6 capture the flag game, with three maps and with some really powerful grenades. Something similar to these grenades implemented in…
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Number of Combatants in First Official Smash Bros. 3DS Tournament
Starting on Oct. 4th, the day after the release of the new Smash Bros. 3DS in the US, 64 entrants at 16 different locations will square off for a chance to win a trip to New York and compete for the championship. Some folks have started organizing their own unofficial tournaments, but this will be…
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Of Hearthstone Players Are in the 10 Lowest Ranks Earlier today, Blizzard posted a few statisticson their Hearthstone blog about the game’s ranking system. Turns out the vast majority of players are on the 10 lowest ranks. That probably shouldn’t be all too surprising, but Blizzard mentioned that they’ve received some complaints from players that…
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Hours to Earn an Average Professional Deck in Hearthstone Read More on Numbers This week, Blizzard released the list of the 32 players that qualified for the next phase of the Hearthstone World Championship. Obviously these players got to where they are based on both their skill and the quality of their deck, but what…
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Team Acer’s MMA was the winner of this weekend’s Starcraft II tournament at DreamHack Moscow and while it’s a great achievement, there’s something strange about his trophy… Congrats on your victory MMA and don’t worry about the typo. Misprints always worth more! via MMA’s Twitter To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
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