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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
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
BLAST Pro Series Sao Paulo was sold out in less than 4 hours!
BLAST Pro Series Sao Paulo will be the biggest esports event in Brazil in 2019 and the tournament is expected to break the boundaries for live esports entertainment.
On 22nd and 23rd March 2019 the biggest stars of Counter-Strike will battle it out live on the iconic BLAST stage in front of a completely packed Ibirapuera arena with more than 6,000 fans!… Read the rest
The dropships have unleashed their hellish cargo onto the battlefield, as Mechs, those giant stompy robots packing more power than a Panzer platoon, have arrived in World of Tanks: Mercenaries. Starting today, Core Breach mode has been unlocked in the game on PS4 and Xbox, and with it come furious 4v4 mech-only Team Deathmatch battles between American and Russian machines of massive destruction.… Read the rest
By Blizzard Entertainment
Joined Overwatch League: September 2018
Division: Pacific
We asked analyst Harsha Bandi and Chief Operating Officer Trent Carroll to tell us more about the team:
What makes your team stand out from other sports/esports teams in your market?
We are most excited about the chemistry and history that players on our team have developed having played, for the most part, together as RunAway.… Read the rest
By Blizzard Entertainment
Joined Overwatch League: July 2017
Division: Pacific
The Dragons started the Overwatch League with a full Chinese roster, but went winless during Stage 1, reaching the decisive fifth map in just two of their matches. The team continued to struggle in Stage 2, again going 0-10 and suffering eight sweeps at the hands of their opponents.… Read the rest
by Aaron Boulding – PUBG eSports
Top teams in North America are kicking off the inaugural season of the National PUBG League and a quick glimpse on the eve of Week 1 competition reveals an imposing group of heavyweights with a few dangerous upstarts mixed in. Whooping on each other week to week is going to make each of these teams better, even when the results might say otherwise, and the last crew standing will surely be worthy.… Read the rest