eSports News, Live eSports On Twitch & Gaming Event News
Cory Lanier – Rocket League
What a year 2018 was for Collegiate Rocket League (CRL)! After the first ever National Championship in Arlington, Texas (where the crowd was the true star), we were left wanting more CRL. To fuel that competitive fire in 2019, we’re launching the inaugural Spring Season of CRL for universities across the United States and Canada!… Read the rest
ELEAGUE
ELEAGUE, the premium esports content and live tournament brand from Turner & IMG, has reached a partnership with Electronic Arts (EA) to create multiple competitive EA SPORTS FIFA 19 events in 2019. Per the agreement, ELEAGUE becomes the first North American tournament partner to host a EA SPORTS FIFA 19 Global Series FUT Champions Cup with the ELEAGUE FUT Champions Cup February on the Road to the 2019 FIFA eWorld Cup.… Read the rest
Project CARS
Sign-ups are open for the Spring 2019 season in the Actrollvision Community Racing ‘Triple Threat’ League on all platforms.
As always, the aim of ACR’s leagues is to give drivers of all abilities a taste of league racing action. Each platform has separate tiers for Beginners, Intermediates and Pros.
Blizzard Entertainment
Last year, Overwatch Contenders expanded into a global tournament series that provided an official pathway for becoming a professional Overwatch player. There is no better place for aspiring pro players to show off their skills—the program now has produced approximately 90 players who have been picked up by teams in the Overwatch League—and we’re not done.… Read the rest
The Call of Duty World League returns to the Anaheim Convention Center, June 14-16! The final regular season event of the season will feature all 16 CWL Pro League teams battling for the Anaheim Cup. This also marks the penultimate dedicated amateur Game Fuel open bracket competition of the season ahead of the CWL Finals in July.… Read the rest
Tespa / Blizzard eSports
Gather your friends and rally your roommates—the Hearthstone Collegiate Championship 2019 sponsored by Republic of Gamers is here with over $125,000 in prizing!
This tournament offers a twist on the classic single-player Hearthstone experience—seasoned competitors and new challengers alike will form three-player teams that compete as one group using any of their teammates’ Hearthstone account!… Read the rest
Schuyler Winter – Rocket League
After four consecutive months of community-led tournament action, the Rocket League Renegade Cup monthly circuit has come to a close. With ARG securing first place in the Ember Series and Revelation emerging victorious in the Battle for Valhalla, we now have our final pair of auto-qualified teams for the Renegade Cup Finals.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
While IEM Katowice, WCS Winter, and GSL are in full swing, we are pleased to share the rest of our 2019 plans for the StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS). Here’s a visual representation of the overall ecosystem:
WCS 2019 is much like last year, with a few notable changes.… Read the rest
PES LEAGUE National Finals will start on the 25th of February 2019. These National Finals will see players from each region compete for a place in the Season 2 European, Americas or Asian Regional Finals.
National Final matches will take place in PES LEAGUE mode, implementing balanced stats and neutral form.… Read the rest
With so many ways to experience the Halo franchise – from the multitude of games to the dozens of novels, live-action and animated films, comics and more, Herschend Live announced that it partnered with 343 Industries to give fans a brand-new way to experience and immerse themselves in this beloved universe with Halo: Outpost Discovery.… Read the rest
The all new ESL Major for Zula is about to start with ten esports clubs like Izako Boars from Poland, For The Win Esports from Portugal, Pompa Team from Poland and X6stence from Spain fighting for the competition prize and for a slot for the final qualification tournament for the $250k World Cup that will be celebrated later in May this year in Istanbul.… Read the rest
By James Mattone – CWL Pro League
On February 4, 2019, the CWL Pro League, Presented by PlayStation 4, will begin its fourth year as an intense, single stage competition.
The top four teams from CWL Las Vegas were automatically given entry to this elite stage, while the remaining 12 teams fought in late January gauntlet tournament to prove they were Pro League material.… Read the rest
Red Bull Mobile Esports Open (M.E.O) by ESL yesterday crowned British player Liam ‘ThunderStruck’ McCarron as the winner of the Clash Royale competition at the innovative new mobile tournament. The Grand Final saw ThunderStruck defeat Austrian player YYYY 4-3 in an electrifying best of seven at the Warsteiner Music Hall in Dortmund following two days of fierce competition.… Read the rest
European esports pioneer Fnatic is delighted to announce that it has been awarded one of this year’s iF DESIGN AWARDs, a world-renowned design prize. The winning product, the miniSTREAK keyboard, is recognized in the Product discipline and Gaming Hardware category and joins an exclusive group of design classics.
Each year, the world’s oldest independent design organization iF International Forum Design GmbH, organizes the iF DESIGN AWARDS.… Read the rest
Gfinity, a world-leading esports solutions provider, announced it will host the third open event of the 2019 Call of Duty® World League season, CWL London, at the 7,500 capacity Copper Box Arena in London running 3rd-5th May 2019. The event, featuring Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from developer Treyarch Studios, feeds into the Call of Duty® World League Championship which takes place in August 2019.… Read the rest