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Former teammates have reunited along with new members to form ‘Laser Kittenz’. The newest organization to enter the Overwatch scene ahead of the impending Overwatch League. Former Misfits general manager Ali “Alicus” Saba will be heading up the team as owner and CEO. The lineup features former Reunited members Finley “kyb” Adisi, and Sergi “Winghaven” …
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The final qualifiers for Year 2: Season 1 of the Rainbow Six: Siege Pro League took place last weekend. Over 24 teams across Europe, North America, and Brazil were battling to earn one of the ten coveted spots in the new format of the Pro League. We can now reveal which teams will compete during …
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The North American Last Chance Qualifier came to a close and now the best Halo teams in the world are decided. After fighting through the qualifiers, 12 teams will head to the Halo World Championship 2017 Finals from March 24-26 in Burbank, California for the chance to battle for a share of the $1,000,000 prize …
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Intel® Extreme Masters (IEM), the longest-running global pro gaming circuit in the world, celebrated the climactic finale of its 11th season as it returned to Katowice, Poland for the 2017 World Championship. The world’s best teams, including champions from IEM Oakland 2016 and IEM Gyeonggi 2016, faced off on the main stage of the Spodek …
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Intel Extreme Masters is going down under! On May 6-7, IEM will host its first ever event on the Australian continent, with eight CS:GO teams battling it out for AUD260,000 at the Qudos Bank Arena. One of these competing teams will come from the Australia & New Zealand Qualifier and will have the opportunity to …
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2017 will be a busy year for StarCraft II with everyone fighting for a slot at the WCS Global Finals. Of the 16 players that will eventually qualify for the US$500,000 final, eight will come from the various DreamHack stops during the WCS Circuit: Austin, Summer, Valencia, and Montreal. Each of the WCS Circuit stops …
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Just hours before the start of the Call of Duty World League event in Dallas, Millenium have announced their signing of the Infused lineup. The British lineup is currently sat in 2nd place in the European Call of Duty Pro points standings, and look set to secure themselves a spot in the Global Pro League.… Read the rest
Optic Gaming have removed CS:GO coach Luis “Peacemaker” Tadeu from the organization. Peacemaker had been on a trial period since February, however the team decided he wasn’t the right fit for them after poor results over that time period. Peacemaker joined Optic after leaving NRG Esports late last year. He arrived along with former Cloud9 …
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Optic Gaming owner, Hector “H3CZ” Rodriguez, addressed the rumours that have been circulating around his Counter-Strike:Global Offensive. Reports had been circulating that players Will “RUSH” Wierzba and Oscar “Mixwell” Canellas would be leaving. Though it wasn’t all clean sailing. H3CZ confirmed in his update that the two players had been looking to leave the team, …
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Krakow, Poland is the destination for the 11th Valve Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major, tournament. The event will take place between July 16-23 and will be hosted at the TAURON Arena, which has played host to esports in the past, when the League of Legends European League Championship Series Summer split finals played out at the …
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CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce GWENT Challenger — an official GWENT: The Witcher Card Game tournament organized in partnership with ESL. The tournament will pit 4 best players from the community against professional gamers: Trump (Jeffrey Shih), Lifecoach (Adrian Koy), Noxious (Kacem Khilaji) and ppd (Peter Dager).… Read the rest
Ubisoft®, together with ESL, the world’s largest esports company, announced that the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Year 2 Pro League competition will begin its global second year program on March 20th in North America, March 23rd in Europe and March 26th in Brazil. The first year of competition ended at the Six Invitational in Montreal, …
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VirZOOM, HTC, AMD and Fitbit are launching vSports next weekend! You can now compete in VirZOOM vSports competitions at local venues and win prizes if you sit atop the leaderboards at the end of the weekend! vSports is real, physical competition on VirZOOM. From March 17th-March 19th anyone can compete in the first ever vSports …
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Yorkshire’s first ever concert dedicated to the music of videogames is to be performed on Tuesday 25th April as part of the new Leeds International Festival 2017. An Evening of Videogame Music is to be performed by the Leeds International Festival Orchestra at the Riley Smith Conference Room, University of Leeds from 7.30pm, and will feature music from iconic games such as Bethesda Softworks’ titles The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.… Read the rest
Swedish Counter-Strike legends Ninjas in Pyjamas have parted ways with yet another ‘fifth man’, as Jacob “Pyth” Mourujarvi is dropped to the bench and will be replaced by former Epsilon AWP player, William “Draken” Sundin. Pyth had been on the starting lineup for the team ever since he replaced the outgoing Aleksi “Allu” Jalli late …
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