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DreamHack and Blizzard Entertainment would like to announce the DreamHack ZOWIE Open: Montreal Qualifiers for WCS Circuit Summer Championship – where 32 players will compete for a $150,000 prize pool, 11,000 WCS Circuit points, and a direct seed into the WCS Global Playoffs at BlizzCon 2016. Qualifiers Regional Challengers 8 Players from Regional Challengers: •2 …
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By ESL At this year’s gamescom in Cologne, Germany, ESL will host the Overwatch Atlantic Showdown – an international competition with a six figure prize pool. A total of eight teams, four from North America and four from Europe, will battle it out on the ESL Arena stage at gamescom on August 20-21.… Read the rest
The English broadcast of the PGL Summer Tavern Tales 2016 LAN playoff will include three of PGL’s favorite Hearthstone casters. Marcin “Gnimsh” Filipowicz, Jakub “Lothar” Szylguski and Alex “Raven” Baguley will return to Bucharest, Romania, on July 29 – 31 as part of the talent line-up for the PGL Summer Tavern Tales 2016 tournament.… Read the rest
Vainglory, the world’s leading touchscreen esport, announced a premier sponsorship with the Amazon Appstore to support their Summer 2016 esports season in both North America and Europe. The Vainglory Summer season begins today and runs through September 11. The top eight teams per region will compete at the Summer Live Championships in North America (September …
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Community Effort Orlando (CEO) 2016 CEO 2016 is here, and this year’s event is enormous! Over 800 players from around the world are competing in Street Fighter 5. CEO is a Premier Tournament, so there is an automatic qualifying spot to Capcom Cup on the line for taking 1st place as well as double the …
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ArenaNet™, publisher and developer of the award-winning Guild Wars franchise, and ESL™, the world’s largest eSports company, have announced the upcoming Guild Wars 2 World Championship; the culmination of the 2016 season and the previous two seasons of Pro Leagues. Developing on their eSports partnership, ArenaNet and ESL are introducing with the World Championship the …
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The Brawlhalla Championship Series began June 18th, kicking off 21 weeks of online tournaments leading up to the Brawlhalla Championship Expo taking place Nov. 11-13 where a $50,000 prize pool is at stake. The Brawlhalla Championship Series is the first sanctioned tournament series backed by Brawlhalla developer Blue Mammoth Games. The BCS includes 1v1 and …
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By CEVO It’s time to announce our next FREE weekend MVP event, the Beat the Heat CS:GO Tournament. The Beat the Heat is an online weekend rush style CS:GO tournament taking place on Saturday, July 9th and Sunday, July 10th, 2016 open to both European & North American CS:GO teams of all skill levels.… Read the rest
These are the faces and voices that will entertain, inform, and perhaps even comfort you at IEM. With the player list completed, bracket and schedule revealed, we are happy to to announce the broadcast team who will be travelling to China in order to bring you live coverage of Intel Extreme Masters Shanghai.… Read the rest
As we edge closer to the launch of the Gfinity CWL Summer Masters, we’re excited to reveal the first batch of invited Call of Duty World League teams. Millenium, Supremacy, Team LDLC and Splyce Pro will descend upon the Gfinity Arena & Studios from July 1st-3rd, as they compete alongside Europe’s most talented Call of …
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There are 36 days remaining until the first day of competition and we have recently confirmed all of the competing players for Intel Extreme Masters Shanghai. With the player lineup complete, here is a look at the bracket and tournament schedule for the competition. Bracket The bracket was drawn and seeded based on the 2016 …
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This weekend, the top Guild Wars 2 teams across Europe and North America will battle it out at the ESL Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live studio audience for a share of $100,000 and the Season 2 championship title. Find out what our star-studded broadcast team has to say about the upcoming …
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The finals for the Esports Championship Series will feature an all star talent line up, with years of experience in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive world adding commentary, in depth analysis, masterful presenting and charm to epic matches between the greatest CS:GO teams in the world facing off at The SSE Arena, Wembley on June 24-26.… Read the rest
The six teams receiving an invite to 2016’s Dota 2 International have been revealed, and if you’ve been following this year’s Majors then there’s likely very little here to surprise anyone. The six teams set to be coming to Dota 2’s International in August this year will be: OG, Team Liquid, Newbee, LGD Gaming, MVP …
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During E3 2016 one especially interesting announcement came via Microsoft and its Xbox One console. During the Microsoft conference the company announced ‘Arena’, an eSports service that it is integrating directly into the Xbox One console. This feature will let players sign up for, compete in and watch live tournaments. These tournaments will be official …
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