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2 decades after the initial eSports tournament, there have been a lot of improvements. These tournaments attract large audiences almost identical to the traditional sports. Giants from the business world such as Nissan and Coke are offering sponsorships. The numbers show increasing popularity and that eSports is growing considerably with each day. Research firm Newzoo revealed around 205 million people who viewed or participated in an eSports tournament in 2014. While most of these crowds were from Asia, there was […]

Commonly referred to as eSports, Electronic Sports has taken world by storm in the last couple of years. Dating back to the 70s, esports started gaining popularity and is today one of the most popular gaming cultures that have ever existed. With availability of high speed internet, eSports gained popularity from 2000 onwards. Let’s take a look at the hottest eSports gaming titles. League of Legends (LoL) This game proved to be the chart-topper for so long that RIOT Games […]

Sports leagues and casinos are giddy with excitement about the newly legalized sports betting industry the US Supreme Court struck down a federal law May 14th prohibiting gambling on individual sporting events. But what will follow is a mad dash to capitalize on the new billinon dollar industry. What does this mean for the future of sports entertainment?

Gold is a critical asset in Dota 2. Considering how precious gold is in its own right, it is clearly going to be an important asset in any kind of game. But that’s beside the point. The thing about gold in Dota 2 is that it is necessary for helping to do all sorts of things. With gold, a team can buy all kinds of items and defenses. It can instantly revive fallen heroes when it has enough gold. The […]

The biggest Counter Strike Global Offensive professional tournament organizers ESL and ECS will be working together on managing their competitive tournaments for the upcoming season. The professional Counter-Strike tournament calendar is packed with those two different leagues managed by the two organizers that run through the entire year. The ECS and ESL Pro League, in fact, comprise the majority of those professional, online tournaments which gather together the very best teams competing for the prestigious titles. These amazing LAN Counter-Strike […]

DreamHack is definitely one of the biggest, most prominent digital festivals. This Sweden-based organizer has started with its work back in 1994 as a local area network, when Kenny Eklund and Martin Ojes organized the very first event of this kind held in Malung, Sweden. Since its beginning, DreamHack has grown to become one of the biggest event organizers and broadcasters in the world of eSports creating worldwide competitions in eSports and digital art every year. Today, DreamHack consists of […]

With 116 heroes in three classes, it is often a challenge for people to try and choose various characters for play. This includes trying to decide which characters a player is going to focus one’s attention on in competitive matches. However, one person has managed to compete with every single hero in the game in competitive play. Kuro “Kuroky” Takhesomi has officially become the first professional Dota 2 competitor to play as every single hero in the game in the […]

The Dota 2 Kuala Lumpur Major is the very first major of the season as well as the sixth PGL’s Major. The event brought together sixteen teams from all over the globe, which are currently competing for their piece of the amazing $1,000,000 USD prize pool. In addition to this prize pool, there are also plenty of DPC points up for grabs for the next big competition which is The International 2019. Thanks to the collaboration between the ImbaTV and […]

Call Of Duty Las Vegas Open is the very first major of the Open Play-In which determines those four final play teams for the 2019 Call Of Duty Las Vegas Open. This is the first Major International offline tournament for Call Of Duty Black Ops season Four which took place in Las Vegas from 7th to 9th of December. When it comes to the format of the competition, it features open bracket and pool play matches. The competition’s open bracket […]

One of the most prominent Call of Duty competitions, the game’s international offline event has finally kicked off on the 7th of December. This is one of those major esports gaming events attracting a massive fan and player base. After several weeks of amazing hype as well as tremendous numbers of sales behind Black Ops 4, two hundred and seventy-two teams from all over the globe are finally converging for their shot at an amazing $250,000 prize pool. The competition […]

Blizzard has announced some sizeable changes in its esports plans for Hearthstone for the coming year. More than $4 million in prizes will be given out at professional esports events for the game this year, although those events will vary in intensity and organization. A large portion of the Blizzard Hearthstone system will be moving online. This will include a three-tier approach to esports competitions. Also, there will be some new changes over how the rankings points for esports teams […]

Information on the next Hearthstone expansion appears to have leaked through the Blizzard Korea channel on YouTube. The expansion is expected to be called the Brawl of Rastakhan. The name is based on the images found on the channel and how the Korean characters translate to English. The new expansion would be the last of the expansions to take place in the current Year of the Raven. The first images of the possible expansion were gathered from the YouTube channel […]

The 2017 Heroes of the Storm competitive season will come to a head at the Global Championships. The event is also known as the Grand Finals. This is an event that will take place from October 26 to November 4 at the Anaheim Convention Center. $1 million is to be spread among the sixteen teams that will compete. The winning team will earn $500,000 while second place gets $200,000. It is expected to be the top event for Heroes of […]

In a move similar to what has been used in many Dota 2 competitions over the years, crowdfunding will be utilized in the upcoming Heroes of the Storm Global Championship event. Blizzard and Twitch have set up a new partnership called HGC Cheer. This is where people can send Cheer funds to the championship as a means of showing one’s support of an individual team. The teams that are the most successful in the program will get a part of […]

As another League of Legends patch comes along, people will start to look at what the patch will feature and how it might make a difference in various esports events. The new Patch 8.24 for LoL will include some big changes, including the addition of the newest champion and a major change to a rune that had been popular in some esports competitions. Who Is Neeko? Neeko will join the roster of champions in the new LoL patch. She will […]

Esports has been growing in recent time to where there are many international competitions around the world devoted to different esports events. These include the Overwatch World Cup where teams representing certain countries compete with each other. The 2018 Asian Games also had a successful demonstration sport run for esports with League of Legends, Hearthstone, Clash Royale, and Arena of Valor being among the esports games being highlighted in the international event. The successes have led to beliefs that esports […]

The twentieth team in the Overwatch League was announced this past weekend as the city of Vancouver will have a team competing in the coming season. The Vancouver Titans will be contending and representing a city that has held a growing influence in the esports world as of late. The group is also owned by a prominent firm that has a significant stake in activities and business functions around Vancouver. The Vancouver Titans were announced at the Rogers Arena, the […]

The Toronto Defiant, following the initial reveal of their branding, has announced six of the players that will be competing under their banner in the second season of the Overwatch League: Offtank Kang-jae “Envy” Lee Off-healer Se-hyeon “Neko” Park DPS Lee “Ivy” Seung-hyun DPS Lee “Stellar” Do-hyung Main tank Jo “Yakpung” Gyeong-mu Main support Go “Aid” Jae-yoon The team will be coached by ex-Spitfire coach Beom-joon “Bishop” Lee. Both Envy and Neko competed in the Overwatch League’s inaugural season for […]

Once one of the richest countries in the world, Venezuela is well past its glory days. The deep economic crisis that’s been going on for a long time now has cast a large shadow over the country that had once enjoyed the prosperity ensured primarily by its rich oil reserves. Today, people of Venezuela are struggling to make the ends meet. An average citizen makes just around $25 a month, which is far from enough to make a decent living. […]

Even though it is clear to everyone that Heroic is currently one of the world’s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams and that they are one of the biggest favorites for the win in almost all tournaments in which they participate, they still have certain problems in the organization like any other organization in the world of eSports. Not that long ago, one of the biggest shock this year came when it comes to CS:GO tournaments. The squad failed to qualify […]

SKT have defeated Samsung Galaxy and won $2,028,000 USD! They have also won this title last year. In Staples Center, Los Angeles, they made South Korea proud!  Here’s the full finals: A nice montage you should check out:  

League of Legends is one of the biggest games if eSports. There are many competitions of LOL and the biggest one is of course “The World Championship”. How big is this competition? Let’s find out: 2011, the first LOL World Championship ever. $1,400,000 USD prize tool, which is a lot. This year, 2016, the prize tool is $4,145,000 USD! One word to describe that: Madness! Only this shows how big does eSports game really is and how fast and far they are […]