The Match Fixing Dilemma: Ethics in Esports

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  Match fixing - Two words betters are never happy to hear about. In the past decade, over 20 South Korean Starcraft 2 players and coaches have been arrested or investigated for claims of match fixing, including a ring of 11...

Fnatic Completes Comeback (EU LCS Week 4)

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Champion Select and Early Game Prior to any of the gameplay, the Fnatic vs ROCCAT week 4 EU LCS match saw a very dynamic champion select. As follows the current meta, each team selected 2 marksmen, however Fnatic's early...

GBM Continues to Knock Socks Off: Week 4

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Half of today's games were one-sided stomps, with the other half being slow and boring. That is except for the last, where NRG faced off against TIP. Team Impulse had their full roster for the first time this season,...

Target Bans You Should Expect after NA LCS W4D1

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We are just about at the halfway point of the 2016 LCS season. Teams are beginning to shake off early season rust and develop real synergy, making for tighter, higher quality games. At this point teams have a good...

EL vs. ViT: It’s Time for KaSing to Become KaSing

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  This week the EU LCS opened up with Elements vs. Team Vitality. Coming into the 2016 Spring Split, these two teams had polar expectations. Each team is newly created, with rosters that need to figure out what works. Also,...

Firebat and Archon – a PR Storm

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On Monday, February first, Firebat put out a tweet that simply read: “Hey everyone. This is my new twitter as I am no longer part of Archon.” This immediately kicked up a wave of rumours trying to figure out...
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LAN Rumble: Who Will Win the Global eSports Cup?

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The first two days of competition at the Game Show Global eSports Cup (GEC) have finished in Vilnius, Lithuania. Although the $200,000 LAN event has experienced long delays, subpar stream quality, and absent production value, all scheduled games have...

The Top Top-Laners to Top Games

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Imagine if someone had told you a year ago that Quinn, Darius, and Gangplank would all be top tier picks? That would sound almost as insane as telling someone two years ago that Garen would be over powered for...

How Standard Will Change Current Meta Decks

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With the recent announcement that there will be a new format released constituting only basic cards and the cards from the most recent two years of sets, we’ve gone through and looked at the top decks in the current...

Too Long, Didn’t Watch: What Happened on EU LCS W4D1

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We had almost a full slate of David versus Goliath style matches today on the 2016 EU LCS spring split week 4, day 1. The freshly reworked Shen was open to be picked, Kindred was re-enabled after sitting out...

MarsTV Dota League and the Offlane Meta in Patch 6.86

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MarsTV Dota League - EHOME's Rise Continues EHOME reformed during 2015 and currently includes four players who are relatively new to the professional level.  The team is captained by veteran Zhang "LaNm" Zhicheng. Under LaNm's guidance, EHOME has been placing...

NA and EU LCS Week 3: Stats, Analysis, and Predictions

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Rather than conducting weekly Power Rankings, I will be doing a statistical analysis of the LCS teams. This week's article will take a look at the stats from Week 3 and will be used to forecast the following week's...

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