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The Esports Championship Series (ECS), FACEIT’s premiere Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league, today revealed the final eight teams set to compete in the ECS Season 4 Finals from December 15-17 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Cancun, Mexico. Top teams from around the world will compete for a piece of the $750,000 USD prize pool, including the grand prize of $250,000 USD.… Read the rest
Smilegate Europe has officially revealed details of the world championship for its FPS game CROSSFIRE, the ‘CROSSFIRE STARS 2017 Grand Finals (CFS 2017)’. The tournament will run from November 30th through December 3rd in the city of Xi’an, China.
There will be a total of 12 teams coming from the regional qualifiers, the CFS 2017 National Finals, which takes place in 11 different regions around the world.… Read the rest
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is set to take Kuala Lumpur by storm with the ROG Masters 2017 Grand Final, running from December 7th – 10th, 2017. The Grand Finals follow on from a series of qualifying competitions that have invigorated esports communities across the globe. The 12 winning teams from the previous rounds will be competing on Dota 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) to represent their respective regions: APAC, China, Americas and EMEA.… Read the rest
CWL
THE STORY SO FAR
OpTic Gaming, Red Reserve, and Mindfreak took home wins during the second CWL 2K of the season – the largest CWL 2K Tournament by participants in Call of Duty esports history. This is coming off an extremely strong first week, where OpTic Gaming, Splyce, and Mindfreak win their regions’ CWL 2K off of a bracket seeded by their CWL Pro Points accumulated from last season.… Read the rest
Astralis have announced that Jacob “Pimp” Winneche will be standing in for Astralis, taking the place of Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz.
Over the course of this month, Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz of Astralis has fallen ill and will not be able to continue to participate in ECS Season 4. His team have now announced Jacob “Pimp” Winneche will be standing in for the team during Nicolai’s recovery period.… Read the rest
Immortals have forfeited all their Season 4 matches as they are unable to field 60% of their registered line-up.
The Esports Championship Series have been informed that ECS Season 4 team Immortals are unable to field a line-up containing 60% of their registered players for their remaining four matches.
ECS rules state that a team cannot change more than 60% of their line-up during a full season.… Read the rest
Announced in early November All Your Bass: The Videogame Music Festival is a new videogame music and audio festival coming to Nottingham on January 19th & 20th 2018.
The festival features outstanding headline acts:
Top 5 Plays from ELEAGUE Injustice 2 Championship
Check out the Top 5 Plays from the ELEAGUE Championship for Injustice 2 featuring the elimination of Sonic Fox, an amazing character power + supermove combination, a reverse 3-2 victory, and an epic comeback. Credits to ForeverKing, Happy Pow, Foxy Grampa, and Tekken Master.… Read the rest
LOL eSports
On Oct 27, we suspended Li “Vasilii” Wei Jun for audible threats of physical violence toward his girlfriend on his October 26 personal stream. After that, we conducted a deeper investigation into the incident:
We have questioned both Vasilii and his girlfriend separately, both remotely and in person. Both of them denied that Vasilii physically assaulted her, and there is no conclusive evidence to the contrary.… Read the rest
One of the winningest esports schools in North America can now proudly say that they will offer scholarships for varsity players and club members. University of British Columbia will begin giving out these scholarships next year after terms are finalized, an announcement received with excitement by a community that has felt largely overlooked by their school in spite of their successes.… Read the rest
The first-ever Formula 1® Esports Series Finals will take place Friday 24th and Saturday 25th November in the F1 paddock, forming part of the the 2017 FORMULA 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The final event will consist of three races, held on the Montreal, Spa-Francorchamps and Yas Marina virtual circuit layouts.… Read the rest
Blizzard
Ready for more Heroes esports?
Returning for its second year, the Gold Club World Championship (GCWC) will play host to eight of the top Heroes of the Storm teams in the world. The tournament begins November 27 and will see a selection of HGC teams battle for their portion of a $300,000 prize pool in Beijing, China.… Read the rest
Elgato Gaming announced the launch of 4K60 Pro, their latest high-end capture card. 4K60 Pro is the first consumer-priced capture card that allows content creators to record stunning 4K visuals at a smooth 60 frames per second. Creators can also utilize 4K60 Pro to capture high frame rate content in lower resolutions, including 1440p at 144 FPS.… Read the rest
ROCCAT Kone Aimo Optical Gaming Mouse
The mouse features AIMO – the eco-system for ROCCAT’s new RGBA lighting engine, vividly bringing light to life with a first-to-market system that reacts fluidly and organically, and grows based on your gaming behavior and compatible connected devices. ROCCAT’s acclaimed Owl-Eye sensor is the most precise and responsive on the market and is based on PixArt technology, with a design modified to ROCCAT’s exacting standards.… Read the rest
Fun & Serious, the largest video game festival in Europe, today announced that it will recognize Blizzard Entertainment’s Jeff Kaplan with an Honorary Award at its 7th annual event, taking place from 8 to 11 December in Bilbao, Spain. Kaplan is being recognized for his career and achievements that include work on two of the most successful video game franchises—as game director of Overwatch®, Blizzard’s first-person shooter with more than 35 million players worldwide, and former game director of World of Warcraft®, the company’s acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game.… Read the rest