E-Sporting Chance: The March Round-Up
Our e-sports correspondent is ESFI World’s Samuel Lingle It’s been a month since the last e-sports update, but fear not. They’re returning with weekly regularity. In theory. Today I’m going to recap...
View ArticleMLG Winter Championships: ESFI Coverage, Day One
Our e-sports correspondent is ESFI World’s Samuel Lingle Spring is here! Flowers are blooming, the grass is greening, the birds are back from their migrations, and the nerds are flocking to the...
View ArticleMLG Winter Championships: ESFI Coverage, Day Two
The second day of Major League Gaming’s Winter Championship culled a field of nearly two hundred competitors to a lean twenty-four. The Columbus Convention Center was packed for the meat of the...
View ArticleMLG Winter Championships: ESFI Coverage, Day Three
Our e-sports correspondent is ESFI World’s Samuel Lingle. It’s been a long time coming, but Jung-Hoon “MarineKing” Lee deserves his crown. The man famed for his uncanny ability to be the first loser...
View ArticleBlizzard Crafts One SCII Championship To Rule Them All
E-sports are complicated – and not just because they involve phrases like “300 actions per minute.” Planet Earth, you see, is broken up into these colossal rocks – oft-believed to be kept afloat by a...
View ArticleFrom Our Tank Correspondent, Part 2: The As-Liveblog
[Part one is here.] I found myself in Moscow at the weekend, reporting on the Ural Steel 2012, a World of Tanks tournament with a top prize of $35,000. There were many tanks, as evidenced in part one...
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: The Fates
Our e-sports correspondent is EFSI World‘s Jeb Boone. This week he looks at the worries around Starcraft 2, and the impact League Of Legends is having on the pro community. On Wednesday, October 17th,...
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: OSL
Our e-sports correspondent is Jeb Boone. A dearth of tournaments outside of Asia has left western e-sports of every stripe wallowing in controversy. The StarCraft 2 community continues to cannibalize...
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: Eventboom
Our e-sports correspondent is Jeb Boone. The e-sports community is in the midst of a mad scramble to organize tournaments. There are such a large number of events this month it’s enough to overwhelm...
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: Hacked Dreams
Our e-sports correspondent is Jeb Boone. In an unprecedented bout of cooperation among e-sports companies, three of the world’s largest tournaments organizations have announced a partnership –...
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: Stories
This week Jeb Boone looks at the story of Flash versus Grubby, and the Electronic Sports League (ESL) Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) tournament in Singapore. … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleAn E-Sporting Chance: Teeming With Teams
Our e-sports Eye (Of Sauron) is Jeb Boone. In E-sports, teams come and go like the tides. Even after the e-sports boom of 2010, stability is difficult to seize and maintain. Last week, Quantic Gaming...
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