Tournament

Riot finally came out with some of the details for the much anticipated and catchily named Season 3 League of Legends Championship Series (LCS for Short) and as is usual with new things like this, ‘It’s complicated’ Anyway here for your edification are the links you need to go decipher it all. Riot’s original post [...]

Dignitas’ and Scotland’s very own JonnyREcco made it two out of two when he took down Mexican hopeful Root.MajOr in a 3-0 whitewash at the TSL4 tournament. The three long games really highlighted both Jonny’s comfort with late game Zerg, and (possibly) Terran’s inability to cope with that (unless you’re Taeja, but I hear he’s [...]

Maybe this was the expected result, the GSL Champion against the relative unknown…but he didn’t get it all his own way, oh no. The first two maps were a demonstration of why MMA is so feared, switching his play from all out aggressive to full on macro mode, and Symbol just couldn’t adapt. 2-0 MMA. [...]

Saturday May 5th sees the culmination of the Iron Squid tournament in Paris. NesTea, Symbol, aLive and MMA came through the quarters in impressive style; Symbol being the surprise addition after taking down the mighty MarineKing 3-0 – it evidently pays to do your homework! The way the match ups have fallen has given us [...]

If you are wondering how successful esports is and IPL4 was specifically, then this should give you an incite. IGN Entertainment today released the figures from it’s recent IPL4 Las Vegas tournament and they are pretty big. 360k peak concurrent online viewers (the largest number ever seen outside of Korea), 10k live spectators (that sold [...]

The group stage is over. The mighty have risen to the top.  Somewhat predictably, a strong Korean performance here has eliminated all of the “foreigner” hopefuls, but they didn’t go out without a fight! A particular highlight was NesTea’s two series against HasuObs and Nerchio; the two Europeans both managing to take a game from [...]

In an official announcement found here, Blizzard have declared that they are creating the Starcraft 2 Battle.net World Championship, and it’s “the culmination of more than 30 eSports events run by Blizzard and tournament organizers”. Blizzard spake thusly about their intent: “The goal of the StarCraft II World Championship Series is to identify a true [...]

This is going to be a short and sweet reminder for all of us that love top quality e-sports and not that RANCID stuff we have streamed over at  Twitch.tv/unitlost sometimes. IPL4 Las Vegas baby! is happening Friday, April 6th to Sunday, April 8th. For me of all the tournaments we have been served up [...]

Dying for some eSports action this week? Well, what better than the Intel Extreme Masters Season VI which is live at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany from March 6 to 10. All the top players and teams will be competing in the games StarCraft II, League of Legends and Counter-Strike 1.6. Streams are available for multiple [...]

A lot of people say that MKP has a 2nd place curse, or should I phrase that ‘had a 2nd place curse’ as he secures the victory over DongRaeGu at the MLG Winter Arena. Down by 2-1 in the first round, the games advanced into a best of 7 which meant MKP required a further [...]