Several times a year, I find myself on YouTube watching a very particular video. This video served as the trailer and announcement for the very first season of the League of Legends Championship Series – the first time LoL would adopt a proper league structure...
French football club Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace has joined forces with esports organisation Team Vitality to compete in the upcoming FIFA 21 eLigue 1 campaign. The partnership marks Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace’s first step into esports. Image credit: Team Vitality / Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace RELATED:...
Esports athlete and influencer apparel brand H4X has partnered with FaZe Clan streamer Nick ‘Nickmercs’ Kolcheff to launch an exclusive apparel collection. The collection, which consists of a t-shirt, hoodie and hat, will come in a customised bag with a personalised note from Kolcheff. Moreover, the...
This piece was written by Kristina Skogvard, for Abios Gaming. Abios provides industry-leading esports data and technology for customers all over the world. Their product offering includes widgets, compliance, odds, and statistics. To learn more about Abios’s products, click here. The esports market is the fastest-growing...
Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. On this week’s...
Rainbow Six Siege–focused esports organization DarkZero Esports has signed a one-year partnership deal with RESPAWN Products, which will become the organization’s gaming furniture provider. In addition to giveaways and content collaboration, RESPAWN has become the provider of desks and chairs for DarkZero’s 8,000 sq. ft....
We take a look at whether one of the most popular support heroes in Dota 2 should receive an update. After 2020 turned out to be one of the worst years for professional Dota, the new DPC started in January of 2021. Then after a fantastic...
Esports data platform GRID has announced a $10m (~£7.28m) Series A funding round, with NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster investing in the firm. Alongside Smith-Schuster, ‘industry leaders’ behind Alinea Capital, Bumble Ventures, and Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder took part in the firm’s funding round, as well as...
Zeros has been banned from play by the Vietnam Championship Series in light of his unfavorable comments. The organizers of the Vietnam Championship Series (VCS) have banned three-time LoL national champion, Phạm "Zeros" Minh Lộc, for disparaging comments made during a livestream. "I hope the pandemic would...
Fnatic announce replacements for Kostas "tsack" Theodoropoulos and Muhammad “Moe40” Hariff Fnatic just recruited ex-CS:GO player Nikita “Derke” Sirmitve and Martin “Magnum” Penkov to their Valorant roster. The org shared the news in an announcement on Twitter. Announcing two changes to our VALORANT roster. Welcome to Fnatic @just_magnum...