Teams

Doublelift will be joining Team Liquid in the locker room for the rest of the Spring Split.

Doublelift on Loan to Team Liquid

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Days after swapping their former World Champion marksman into the midlane, Team Liquid has once again claimed all esports headlines with their acquisition of Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng. In a Facebook post, Team Liquid announced that Doublelift will be coming in...
CS:GO

Esports Edition’s CS:GO Power Rankings: February 2017

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Welcome to the first installment of Esports Edition's CS:GO Power Rankings. It's a wonderful time to be a Counter-Strike fan, and the top of the pro scene has never been more competitive. With a resurgent Virtus.Pro entering 2017 firing on...
Spring Split Featured Image

Spring Split 2017: Preseason Power Rankings

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North America's League of Legends offseason may have been the wildest to date. We saw NBA  investors, Korean stars sailing in, the return of Dignitas, and plenty of players migrating as organizations assembled lineups to compete in the NA LCS....
Cloud9 Overwatch

Cloud9 Overwatch Signs Gods; KyKy Benched

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Cloud9 Overwatch has brought a third DPS player onto their roster with the addition of Daniel "Gods" Graeser, just in time for the season 2 premier of the Korean OGN Overwatch APEX League. To make room for this move,...
CS:GO

One Last Hurrah for EnVyUs

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The World Electronic Sports Games CS:GO tournament wrapped up this weekend with Team EnVyUs taking the title. With a prize pool of $1.5 million and a first place prize of $800,000, EnVyUs took home the biggest prize in CSGO...
Newbee Dota2

Newbee.Boss Announces Trailblazing New Roster

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The Newbee organization has announced the formation of an additional Dota squad: Newbee Boss. Here's the current roster: Xiao8 Ferrari_430 Axx ChuaN Zei9 There are two notable things about Newbee.Boss: It's Xiao8, Ferrari_430, and ChuaN's current team. All of these players have...
Reunited Overwatch Roster

Reunited Leaves Overwatch, Rocket League

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After a year in esports, one of the first professional Overwatch teams, Reunited, will be ceasing all operations. In an ultimate news release, Reunited co-founders Frederik Kragh Christensen and Christian Jantzen announced the end of the player-owned esports...
Origen XPeke Announcement

Origen Announces 2017 League of Legends Roster

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Over a simple YouTube video, Enrique "xPeke" Cedeño Martinez announced the new roster for Origen's League of Legends team, after a disappointing 2016 season that left the former international contenders vulnerable to relegation. Upon returning to the EU...
Team NP Jersey with sponsorship logos.

Controversial Sponsorships: Necessary Evil or Detrimental?

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I can't imagine it's that easy to find sponsors for start-up esports teams. A great example is Team NP. They recently partnered with FYM Hot Sauce, a small company from Portland, OR. FYM's owner is active on Reddit and enthusiastic...

Hammer Down! Analyzing Plays from COWLeague Open

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This week’s Competitive Overwatch Open ended with a 2-1 victory for Rubicon over Lucky 7. This second week of competitive play drew to a close with a match on King’s Row after pitting 32 participating teams through five rounds of carnage...
Dardoch is the new 'shiny thing' for League of Legends teams, but does he actually solve their problems?

Esports Roster Issues: Shiny Solutions to Dull Problems

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The offseason is a fantastic time to analyze the strategic approaches of esports team owners. And, for the purposes of this piece, let's look at teams, not organizations. This means we are emphasizing the building of a specific competitive team, rather...
Team Faceless Dota2

Five Reasons to Root for Team Faceless at the Boston Major

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Feeling lost without Liquid, Secret, NaVi, nor Alliance to root for at Boston? Do you miss iceiceice's specific brand of humor? 'Fear' not (huehuehue), Team Faceless is here! Or, rather, there. In Boston. Why Team Faceless? 5. An Underdog Team in an...