eSports

This past weekend saw a number of mini-tournaments taking place for Starcraft II, in the final stage lead up to IEM Katowice 2021. It was the last major before the next big event and Joo “Zest” Sung-wook took full advantage of it. If we were looking for indicators of performance…

Photo: Motto. How Ninjas in Pyjamas created a new identity When Sunny Bonnell and her team at branding agency Motto started working with Ninjas In Pyjamas (NIP), a 20-year-old esports team in search of a new look, they did a lot of research. The team had never worked in gaming…

During the first month of 2021, China’s esports industry witnessed noteworthy investments and developments. Here are the top stories of the final week of January 2021: TCL Technology (TCL) became the 16th brand to sponsor League of Legends Pro League (LPL); Guangzhou Quwan Network Technology (TT Yuyin) raised $100 million…

Amidst the Dota Pro Circuit 2021, the folks at Relog Media has taken the opportunity to host a Dota 2 tournament of their own. With 50,000$ on the line, they gathered a formidable group of participants. Snow Sweet Snow is marked as a tier3 competition, but based on what we’ve…

The global Brawl Stars Championship series 2021 is about to start, complete with monthly challenges and of course, monthly qualifiers as well. The 2021 series will feature 8 seasons, each spanning one month and each containing a Championship Challenge (CC), Monthly Qualifier (MQ) and Monthly Final (MF). Each types of…

North American CS:GO star Timothy “autimatic” Ta has announced his retirement from the game after T1 revealed that the player would be joining its Valorant division. It is currently unknown who autimatic will be replacing on T1’s roster, seeing that with his addition the organization currently has six players on…

It’s not exactly a secret that the Call of Duty games have been plagued by cheating for as long as online play has been a thing in the series. Problems range from the odd kid with an aimbots to organized efforts to sabotage, troll, stream-snipe and more. While publisher Activision…

The Street Fighter V Winter Update has been announced to be taking place in February. The latest update is due to bring a lot of new content into the game. We now know quite a bit about what is going to be announced and discussed with the livestream. This is…

Clix, XacialT, and Tarik Cohen of the Chicago Bears won the Twitch Rivals Fortnite Streamer Bowl 2, giving Clix and Cohen their second straight win. It should come as no surprise that one of the best players in the game, Clix, and his Duo partner from last year, Tarik Choen,…

The BLAST Spring 2021 Season is kicking off in a few days with teams seeking to kick off the season a high note. Once again the twelve partner teams enter the competition to get as much practice before IEM Katowice. Here’s our group analysis and match predictions for the opening…