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Intel and ESL have announced a new partnership that’s extending the pair’s cooperation, and also introducing a $1m Intel Grand Slam. The Intel Grand Slam is a new event that’ll award $1m to the first Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team that can win four out of the last 10 $200,000 events …

ESL have announced that they’ll be bringing esports to mammoth games expo E3 in the form of the E3 ESPORTS ZONE to kick off a multi-year partnership between the esports outfit and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) that organise E3. The digital sports will have its own stage, featuring players …

Fnatic have dropped their CS:GO academy team after several tournament organisers have started to make noises about multiple-team ownership. Last week, the team secured a spot in the European CIS Minor, which acts as a pre-qualifier for the PGL Kraków major, which Fnatic’s core team have already qualified for. PGL …

Facebook have signed a livestreaming deal with ESL that will see Facebook streaming over 5,500 hours of esports via its Facebook Live service, including their IEM and ESL One events. Spotted by PCGamesN, Facebook will partner with ESL to create unique esports content for the platform, including backstage Q&A’s with …

ESL have announced a deal with Emirates Airline, allowing passengers on any Emirates flight to watch on-demand esports content from ESL in-flight. The partnership is a big one for esports fans, the first of its kind to allow air passengers to watch esports matches on demand using an in-flight entertainment …

Brazilian esports outfit SK Gaming has won the inaugural Counter-Strike: Global Offensive IEM Sydney title. This win is their second win in three weeks after the team also snagged the win at cs_summit, with the double providing the first titles for the team since they rounded off a Major double …

ESL has announced that it will launch its esportsTV channel on PlayStation Vue in the coming weeks. Before the end of the month the channel will launch on PlayStations TV service in the States, just in time for a live broadcast of the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney CS:GO event taking …

The Esports Integrity Coalition has released a lengthy statement regarding recent rule changes made by ESL for their Counter-Strike competitions.  The new rules implemented by ESL state that any player who has received a VAC ban for cheating will be banned from play in ESL competitions for two years. Previously …

The finals of the ESL Go4Splatoon Europe competition are set to take place this weekend in Paris, France.  The competition has been running for the past six months, with the best Splatoon teams from across Europe battling online for a shot at the finals. Now only four teams remain, with …

Improbably popular Witcher 3 distraction, GWENT, is set to join the world of eSports when CD Projekt RED and ESL partner up to host the GWENT Challenger tournament. The qualifiers will kick off this April, with an open tournament featuring 512 of the top ranked players from the game’s leaderboards. …