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ELEAGUE has revealed the official viewing stats for the final of the ELEAGUE Major and unsurprisingly it’s a pretty big number. The total viewer reach of the ELEAGUE final was 3.6 million viewers across all platforms including the TBS TV broadcast. This also included 1.8 million people who were first …
Read More »Former Fnatic CS:GO roster reunites after player swap with GODSENT
Fnatic has announced that it has traded Joakim “disco doplan” Gidetun and Simon “twist” Eliasson to GODSENT and will get Jesper “JW” Wecksell, Robin “flusha” Rönnquist in return. This means that the Major winning team from late 2015 and early 2016 is now back on Fnatic. For a long time …
Read More »Blizzard announces $300,000 national Hearthstone team league
Blizzard has announced the Hearthstone Global Games, a team based competition with $300,000 on the line. 48 nations will compete in the event, each fielding a team of four players from that country. Teams will play best of five matches against other nations online, with each player bringing two decks …
Read More »Two Call of Duty World League events to be held in Sydney
Activision has finally given Australia some love by announcing two Call of Duty World League events that will take place in Sydney. Both events feature a $30,000 prize pool and up to 64 teams. They will be held at the ESL Studios in Sydney and will only be open to …
Read More »Echo Fox forfeit ESL Pro League spot after failing to get a roster in time
Echo Fox has forfeited its spot in the North American division of the ESL Pro League after failing to submit a roster for the upcoming season. The team disbanded its CS:GO team late last year, leaving just two players on its roster currently. Obviously without a team of five they …
Read More »Stanislaw leaves OpTic Gaming, rumoured to join Team Liquid
Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz has left the OpTic Gaming CS:GO team after a disappointing run at the ELEAGUE Major. Stanislaw is considered one of, if not the, best in game leader in North America, and OpTic were considered the best NA team after winning ELEAGUE Season 2 and taking second at …
Read More »Major Russian travel search engine sponsors NaVi
Natus Vincere has announced a new sponsorship deal with Russian travel search engine Aviasales. Exact details of the deal have not been announced, but it is rumored to be a considerable amount of money easily in the six figures. One part of the deal that was disclosed is that the …
Read More »ESL hires former Fox Sports exec to improve TV output
ESL has announced that it has hired former Fox Sports exec and one of the people behind the Championship Gaming Series, David Hill. Hill said this his role will be to “make gaming [TV] network-ready, because we firmly believe the next big thing in entertainment is video gaming,” when speaking …
Read More »Lunatic-Hai suspends two Overwatch players after having relationships with female fans
South Korean Overwatch team Lunatic-Hai has suspended both Geum "dean" Dong-geun and Lee "Leetaejun" Tae-jun for developing online relationships with female fans. The two were starting members in the team, but have been benched for the rest of the OGN Apex Season Two competition after the discovery was made by …
Read More »ESL One leaves Frankfurt and heads to Hamburg for Dota event
ESL has announced ESL One Hamburg as the replacement to its annual ESL One Frankfurt event. The yearly German Dota 2 event has been held in Frankfurt for the past three years usually around June. This year however the even is making the switch to Hamburg and will take place …
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