eSports

Photo: Stewart Volland (Blizzard Entertainment)Between covid-19 and countless other difficulties, Overwatch League’s make-or-break third season has gone as far off the rails as anyone could have imagined. Now, after losing a star player to Valorant last week, the league has lost one of its top teams. At least, temporarily.Today, the…

May 6, 2020Emily RandESPN When the Vancouver Titans announced that they had parted ways with the entirety of their 2019 Overwatch League lineup, what had already seemed inevitable became fact. Rumors had been swirling since various players removed the Titans name from their social media bios. The Titans dismissed the…

Editors USA TODAYPublished 9:11 AM EDT May 5, 2020Trump to visit Arizona mask plant amid push to lift coronavirus restrictionsPresident Donald Trump will travel to Phoenix on Tuesday, leaving the confines of Washington for the first time in more than a month as the administration begins pushing states to ease coronavirus restrictions…

It has been known for some time now that Esports could very likely make an appearance at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris, though to what capacity remains to be seen. There's no telling what games will be played, whether they'll be deemed worthy of medals, or if France's Hot…

Photo: Long Nguyen (Red Bull Content Pool)The fighting game community’s shift to online competition in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic has increased the scene’s vulnerability to problems that rarely proved serious in the past. Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament organizers learned this firsthand when a top player using a…

oof — Everyone has to decide if it's only a game or if it's a real sport. Jonathan M. Gitlin - May 4, 2020 3:10 pm UTC The finale of IndyCar's iRacing challenge was more action-packed than most races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Here, with nine laps to go,…

Valve has canceled its major Dota 2 event, The International, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The International 2020 was scheduled to be held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm this summer. A new date has not been announced, but Valve expects the event to be delayed until 2021. “Given the…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The International in 2019 One of the world's biggest eSports events has been postponed until 2021. The International, which awards huge cash prizes to the winners, was due to take place in Stockholm in August.Last year's tournament was held in Shanghai's 18,000 capacity Mercedes…

Image: Blizzard EntertainmentJay “Sinatraa” Won isn’t just any Overwatch League player. After a stellar 2019 in which his team, the San Francisco Shock, took home championship gold, he was declared the league’s MVP. This means that the game’s developers at Blizzard will release an in-game skin to commemorate his exploits.…

Overwatch pro player Jay “Sinatraa” Won is ending his Blizzard career on a high, having won both the Overwatch League Cup and Overwatch World Cup (along with the MVP award). The 20-year-old is moving from the competitive Overwatch scene and jumping straight into Riot’s new first person shooter Valorant.Sinatraa will…