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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 …
Read More »Overwatch’s holiday event now live
As the year draws to a close everyone is looking head to the holidays, but for those that want to get into the christmas spirit right now you can jump into Overwatch, with its new holiday event. The Winter Wonderland event sees a ton of new skins and cosmetics introduced, …
Read More »Battlerite gets new champion
Battlerite is getting a new champion today in the form of Pestilus aka “Lord of the Swarm”. The new champion is a part of the new massive winter update, which includes the new ranking system with leagues and divisions, making competitive play a lot easier. “Pestilus aka “Lord of the …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 2: Overwatch
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s new store in London while today he jumps into Overwatch. Fnatic certainly isn’t a stranger to supporting new games early on, but …
Read More »Try out Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare free this weekend
With the Call of Duty competitive season about to kick off with MLG Las Vegas Activision is letting those who are yet to buy Infinite Warfare play for free. Between 6pm (UK time) on December 15th and 6pm on December 20th anyone will be able to download and play Call …
Read More »ESL One New York returns to the Barclays Center until 2020
ESL has announced that it will run a tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the next four years. ESL One New York will return on September 16th and 17th 2017, and then will come back again in 2018, 2019 and 2020, although exact dates for those events are …
Read More »Halo World Championship returns in 2017
The Halo World Championship is returning in early 2017, with qualifying events taking place all over the world. Dates for the World Championship itself have yet to be revealed, although it is expected to be sometime in April. However a number of LAN events beforehand have been revealed. First up …
Read More »Dota 2 gets massive 7.00 patch that changes everything
Dota 2 finally got a new patch after more than six months and it changes almost everything we know about Dota. The 7.00 patch is currently live on the test client and goes live in the main client tonight. The full list of patch notes can be seen over on …
Read More »Riot removes LAS casters from All Star cast after racist comment
This past weekend saw the annual League of Legends All Star event take place. Players from each of the major regions headed to Barcelona to fight for regional pride and for their team of Ice or Fire. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. During segment discussing the performance of Bae …
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