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Earlier in the month it was revealed that Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wesley Edens has purchased a place in the North American LCS from Cloud9. Now we know that he has put his son in charge of it all. Ryan Edens will be managing the team, which is currently in …
Read More »$100,000 Smash 4 championship series announced
2GGaming and eSports Arena have announced a new Smash Bros Wii U (4) circuit for 2017 with a massive $100,000 prize pool. Exact details are a little thin on the ground after a brief announcement over the weekend, but it seems that there will be twelve events over the course …
Read More »MLBAM to to stream and monetize League of Legends eSports in $300 million deal
Major League Baseball Advanced Media’s BAMTech division has acquired the streaming rights for League of Legends. The deal will cost MLBAM at least $50 million a year, with the initial deal being secured until 2023. Officially the deal is for the monetisation and commercialisation of League of Legends eSports, although …
Read More »The weekend wrap up: 19/12/16
Here at eSports Pro we hate event spoilers, but also know that no one has the time to watch every major tournament every weekend. That’s why we are starting up the weekend wrap up, a short post every Monday that lists all of the winners from the previous weekend. This …
Read More »Celtic eSports League features eight football teams from the UK and Ireland
The Celtic eSports League is a new FIFA competition that features eight football clubs from the UK and Ireland. Crusaders FC, Dundalk FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Hibernian FC, Linfield FC, Shamrock Rovers FC, TNS FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are all on board and the first competition is already underway. …
Read More »Dignitas sign Ssumday and Chaser for 2017 LoL roster
Team Dignitas has announced that it has signed both Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and Lee “Chaser” Sang-hyun. Both players will play for the team in the 2017 North American LCS Spring Split, pending Riot’s approval. Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho will be the team’s top laner, and is regarded as one of the …
Read More »MLG Las Vegas to be streamed on YouTube and MLGTV, no sign of Twitch
MLG has announced that it has partnered with YouTube to broadcast the MLG Las Vegas Call of Duty and Overwatch tournament this weekend. Matches, news, and analysis from the event will be shown on the MLG YouTube channel throughout the weekend, along with a stream on the MLG EVE player …
Read More »PSG announce League of Legends roster
Paris Saint-Germain has announced its starting roster for the upcoming EU Challenger Series split. The team will feature Etienne "Steve" Michels in the top lane, Thomas "Kirei" Yuen in the Jungle, Jin "Blanc" Seong-min in mid, Hampus "sprattel" Mikael Abrahamsson as the support and Na "Pilot" Woo-hyung as the AD …
Read More »NA LCS prize pool increased, relegation tweaked
Riot Games has revealed the changes coming to the North American LCS in 2017, and there isn’t all that much different. The big talking point in that relegation has been tweaked, just like in Europe, so that only the bottom two teams will have to play in the promotion tournament. …
Read More »EU LCS goes to best of threes, has a new group stage format
Riot Games has announced the new format and broadcast schedule for the European LCS in 2017. The big news is that after just one split playing best of twos the EU LCS will now transition to best of threes, which the NA LCS tried out last year. Riot said that …
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