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Jaws draws Overwatch League Season 3 casting job after exodus
Olivia Richman
Former Overwatch Contenders Europe caster Jack “Jaws” Wright is joining the Overwatch League broadcast team in the 2020 season. Jaws will be casting with Robert “Hexagrams” Kirkbride, whose previous partner, Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat, recently left the Overwatch League to return to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Jaws took to Twitter to reveal the news and express his excitement. For Jaws, casting the Overwatch League became a goal after watching APEX from his bedroom and …
Counter-Strike
Swole Patrol, INTZ face off in WINNERS League Season 3 NA finals
M Alzamora
The final matchup of the WINNERS League Season 3 North America division is now set. INTZ Esports and Swole Patrol will go head-to-head for the Season 3 title. Both teams finished the regular season with 6-1 records, but INTZ has been the standout performer during the playoff stage. The Brazillian team hasn’t dropped a map throughout the playoffs, defeating Team Divine, Triumph, and Riot Squad 2-0 in the stage’s best-of-three …
League of Legends
Chovy hints at a surprising role swap coming to DragonX
William Davis
DragonX mid laner Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon recently hinted the possibility of a surprising role swap in the spring. DragonX, previously known as Kingzone DragonX, is taking a page out of G2 Esports’ book and is experimenting with a role swap. In a recent interview with Korean website Daily Esports, Chovy revealed that the team could go for the swap in the first game of the 2020 LCK Spring season. “For …
Counter-Strike
B Site league to fine teams $100,000 for not playing well enough
M Alzamora
More information regarding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s B Site was revealed today by Cloud9’s President Dan Fiden ahead of its March debut. In a two-hour interview today with esports insider Richard Lewis, Cloud9 President Dan Fiden and B Site Creative Director Duncan “Thorin” Shields revealed new information regarding the B Site tournament circuit. Most notably, B Site will fine participating teams $100,000 per month they place outside of the world’s top …
Counter-Strike
Nemiga faces Espada in WINNERS League Season 3 Europe Finals
M Alzamora
Espada took down KOVA 2-1 and Nemiga defeated SKADE 2-0. With those wins, these two teams are set to face off in the WINNERS League Season 3 Europe Division grand finals. Both teams are strong contenders for the WINNERS League trophy, but Espada has an uphill battle against a Nemiga team that has been unstoppable throughout the regular season and playoffs. That said, Espada has pulled out some wins from …
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These are the best Overwatch League players to watch in 2020
Olivia Richman
Overwatch League fans are already buzzing about the 2020 season. With a completely global schedule and a revolving list of broadcast talent, Season 3 has a lot of changes that have the community curious about the league’s future. While controversy at Blizzard continues, there’s no debate that this season has an impressive mix of veteran talent and exciting newcomers that are sure to make matches more explosive than ever. Let’s …
League of Legends
Chinese League fans are getting a new way to watch LCS and LEC
Syed Mujtaba Naqvi
Riot Games has partnered with Chinese streaming platform HUYA for LCS and LEC broadcasts. With China having the largest League of Legends player base in comparison to other regions, the interest in the European and North American official leagues is growing as well. Riot announced an extension to the partnership with HUYA, one of the most popular live streaming platforms in China, which will now include exclusive rights to broadcast …
Dota 2
3 Dota 2 pros permabanned during DreamLeague Leipzig Major
gabhernandez
During the DreamLeague Leipzig Major, three professional Dota 2 players were hit with Valve’s mighty ban hammer. Fnatic coach Lee “SunBhie” Jeong-jae posted a video on Twitter mocking Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon for being struck with an 18-year ban. A similar case happened earlier that day with TNC Predator players Timothy John “Tims” Randrup and Kim “Gabbi” Villafuerte. The players themselves did not address the bans in any clear way, but SunBhie’s initial tweet teased …
TNC knock Fnatic out of DreamLeague Major, next face Team Liquid
gabhernandez
Dota 2
The DreamLeague Season 13 series between the two surviving southeast Asian teams was a total bloodbath. TNC Predator proved to be the kings of the region by eliminating Fnatic from the event and staying alive in the lower bracket. As with most other playoff series at DreamLeague Season 13, TNC vs. Fnatic went the full three games and ended up being a nailbiter. TNC simply outplayed Fnatic in the first …
Apex Legends Season 4 adds new legend Forge, changes ranked tiers
Steven Rondina
Apex Legends
Apex Legends Season 4 is coming, and with it comes a new legend. Following in the footsteps of Wattson and Crypto, the fourth Apex Legends season will launch alongside new playable character Forge. The legend was revealed in a developer update from Respawn Entertainment alongside a number of other changes for the next update. Forge will be a fairly significant departure from the other legends released since the game’s launch …
Annie and Nautilus VFX updated, abilities finally match hit boxes
Syed Mujtaba Naqvi
League of Legends
Riot Games is continuing with visual effect updates in League of Legends. This time around, it’s Annie and Nautilus’ turn. Players have been enjoying League for 10 years as the game kept being updated with new features, champions, skins, and more. But as time passes by and more new models release, older ones can feel quite underwhelming standing next to them. This is why Riot often looks into updating the …
TFT Patch 10.2 makes Assassin units relevant again, nerfs Sivir
William Davis
League of Legends
Teamfight Tactics has been updated once again with Patch 10.2. Patch 10.2 brings significant changes that will completely modify the meta. Now more than ever, the game is at a point where multiple strategies are viable. Players no longer have to fight for the same units, but instead can experiment with builds and try to out-smart each other with creative setups. Patch 10.2 reduces the duration of games by lowering …
Some of CSGO’s biggest names and casters join new B Site league
M Alzamora
Counter-Strike
B Site officially unveiled its first season’s talent pool last night while revealing that the league will start in March 2020. There was even more information available to fans if they knew where to look. B Site is scheduled to start sometime in March 2020, according to the tweet. The timeframe lines up with initial reports stating that the league would overlap with Season 11 of ESL’s Pro League. The …
Jeff Kaplan shuts down hero ban rumors in Overwatch League 2020
gabhernandez
News
Jeff Kaplan has squashed rumors related to banning heroes in Overwatch League’s 2020 season. In the last few days, OWL fans have been buzzing about possible hero bans. Season 2 had a lot of complaints regarding the GOATS meta, which wasn’t really helped when the 2-2-2 role lock ushered in the double shield meta. With the new season quickly approaching, many fans are wondering what things will look like in …
ESL returns to England with ESL One Birmingham 2020
gabhernandez
Dota 2
Birmingham will host an ESL One Dota 2 event for a third consecutive year. ESL has announced its plans to return to England for another exciting tournament in 2020. The tournament organizer has been bringing Dota 2 action to Birmingham each year since 2018 and will do so again this May. Top teams will square off against each other to hoist ESL’s iconic trophy and bring home the lion’s share …
Joe Biden says video games “teach you how to kill” in interview
Olivia Richman
News
Democratic candidate Joe Biden recently stirred some controversy among gamers with comments made during an interview session with the New York Times. Biden, who is hoping to become the Democratic nominee for the 2020 US presidential election, told the New York Times this weekend that a multi-millionaire Silicon Valley game developer was a “little creep” when he was asked about a prior meeting with Silicon Valley entertainment companies to discuss copyright …
beastcoast eliminate Nigma from major with mid Disruptor pick
Steven Rondina
Dota 2
Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi and his teammates have a reputation for fearsomeness when their backs are against the wall, but that didn’t hold up at the DreamLeague Leipzig Major. Playing against beastcoast, Nigma were on the receiving end of the biggest upset of the tournament so far. The South American squad got the better of them with a 2-1 series win, eliminating Nigma from the event in ninth place. The …
LEC changes playoff format and championship points in 2020
Olivia Richman
League of Legends
Riot Games announced a revised playoffs format for the LEC’s 2020 season earlier this week. League of Legends fans will see a lot of big changes in the LEC this year, including how teams will qualify for the World Championship. This season there will be even more importance placed on performances in the Summer Split playoffs. European fans will also say goodbye to Regional Qualifiers, also known as the gauntlet. …
LoL patch 10.2 nerfs Aphelios and Qiyana, changes Rift Herald
William Davis
League of Legends
League of Legends Patch 10.2 has arrived, and it brings some necessary nerfs to Aphelios and Nautilus. The second update of season ten is not large, but it targets some key champions that have been too powerful for too long. Aphelios, Nautilus, and Qiyana got nerfed on Patch 10.2. Like almost every other champion in League of Legends history, Aphelios was overpowered on release. Aphelios could dominate the lane and …
Riot Games balks at DFEH $400 million gender discrimination suit
Olivia Richman
League of Legends
Riot Games has called the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s $400 million lawsuit estimate “a click-bait number with no grounding in reality.” The League of Legends developers agreed to pay $10 million to female employees past and present to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit in December 2019. While the community at large had applauded Riot for giving female employees from the past five years a portion of the …
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