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With the post season roster shuffle in full effect major League of Legends teams are starting to finalise their rosters for 2017. Fnatic has supposedly done just that by signing two players from rivals Origen. According to ESPN’s Jacob Wolf the new Fnatic roster includes Paul "sOAZ" Boyer, Maurice "Amazing" …
Read More »Martin Wyatt reflects on Gfinity’s vastly different 2016
Over the last few years Gfinity has looked like a company that can’t quite decide what it want’s to be. One month they are focusing on a massive self funded event like G3 and the next they are effectively a production company for hire. Then they might return with the …
Read More »ROX Tigers seemingly disband after contracts expire
ROX Tigers, the team that placed second at Worlds last year and top four this year, have disbanded after player contracts expired. Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho, Lee "KurO" Seo-haeng, Kim "PraY" Jong-in, and Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon have all seemingly left the team after their contracts expired on November 25th. Over the …
Read More »Misterio and Tse444 out of the Capcom Cup, K-Brad and Yukadon are in
Both Felipe "Misterio" Patricio Torres Carvacho and Tse "Tse444" Wa Ping will not be able to compete at the Capcom Cup this weekend. They will be replaced by Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley and Fujimura "Yukadon" Atsushi. No reasons for the drop outs have been given, but as is usually the case …
Read More »Virtus Pro returns to League of Legends
CIS eSports organisation Virtus.Pro has returned to League of Legends by singing a new team. After a lengthy hiatus from the League scene Virtus.Pro has signed a new roster with the aim of competing in the LCL Open Cup and in the next season of the LoL Continental League. Daniel …
Read More »Team Liquid trying out zews as new CS:GO coach
Team Liquid has announced that Wilton "zews" Prado is trying out as the coach for the organisations CS:GO team. This past weekend he acted as the coach when the team competed at the Northern Arena 2016 Montreal competition. They didn’t have the best performance, going out of the group stage …
Read More »MonteCristo: “Blizzard paid me more in two weeks than Riot has in five”
Caster Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles has revealed that Blizzard paid him more for two weeks work on the Overwatch World Cup than Riot did for a five week long World Championship. In an interview with Yahoo eSports, which can be seen below, MonteCristo revealed that Blizzard was paying what he called …
Read More »Counter Logic Gaming hires new director of business development
Counter Logic Gaming has hired John Spiher as the organisations new director of business development. Spiher is the former marketing director for DXRacer, the chair manufacturer, and is a program director for the Gamers Outreach Foundation charity, which creates gaming set ups and pods and donates them to children’s hospitals. …
Read More »NaVi drops SoNNeikO, Ditya Ra and ArtStyle after missing out on the Boston Major
Dota 2 team Natus Vincere has dropped three players after the team failed to qualify for the Boston Major competition. Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev, Dmitry “Ditya Ra” Minenkov and Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov have all left the team, leaving only Danil “Dendi” Ishutin and Victor “GeneRaL” Nigrini signed to the organisation. Rumours …
Read More »Clinton “Fear” Loomis retires from competitive Dota 2
Dota 2 legend and former TI champion Clinton “Fear” Loomis has retired from competitive play and will become a coach. Fear has been a part of the Evil Geniuses Dota 2 team since 2011, winning The International in 2015 and many other top tier tournaments along the way. He has …
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