In the middle of signings soaring around, the people in charge of the Overwatch League have released some big news involving the 2021 season. In a recent YouTube video, vice president of Overwatch Esports Jon Spector talked about details for next year. This included a rough start time, if tournaments would return, how divisions would […]
League of Legends: Team Liquid Signs Alphari, Santorin Ahead of 2021 LCS Season
Team Liquid has acquired top laner Barney “Alphari” Morris and jungler Lucas “Santorin” Larsen for its League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) roster. The organization revealed their signings yesterday on Twitter. The two will join the squad for the upcoming 2021 LCS season. 21-year-old Alphari makes his first move to North America, after previously competing […]
League of Legends: Riot Revamps LCS Academy League For 2021
Riot Games is changing up the LCS Academy and amateur leagues for the 2021 season, the League of Legends developer announced yesterday. Taking the place of Academy league play-offs and Finals will be a series of tournaments, all of which will lead to the LCS Proving Grounds. Academy and amateur teams will compete alongside each […]
League of Legends: G2 Star Perkz Reportedly Joining Cloud9
G2 Esports has reportedly made a “verbal commitment” to transfer League of Legends star Luka “Perkz” Perković to the LCS’s Cloud9. The news was revealed yesterday by former ESPN Esports journalist Jacob Wolf, who previously revealed G2 had been in talks with multiple organizations over Perkz. According to Wolf, the Croatian star’s buyout stood at […]
A League of Legends guide to the new Mythic support items – Daily Esports
League of Legends has just released the new preseason changes on live servers. This means plenty of long-time favorites have been deleted from the store, with the addition of new items that can be equally as useful. Daily Esports has you covered to figure out which League of Legends Mythic items are useful to Support […]
ESL and German Football League DFL Announce Cooperation for Virtual Bundesliga Competition
Global tournament organizer ESL has entered into a strategic partnership with the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) with the goal to “further expand and professionalize the Virtual Bundesliga.” ESL will take control of all aspects of media production for national VBL competitions. The organizer has also acquired media rights through this deal for the VBL with […]
League of Legends: Reignover becomes Cloud9’s LCS head coach
Kim “Reignover” Yeu-jin got promoted to the head coach role for Cloud9’s League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) team. Reignover began his League of Legends esports career back in 2013 when he played for team Incredible Miracle 2. Later, he played for teams such as Fnatic, Immortals, and Team Liquid before becoming the head coach […]
League of Legends: Cloud9 to Release Licorice, Promote Fudge to Starting Lineup
Cloud9 is set to release top laner Eric “Licorice” Ritchie from its starting League of Legends lineup for the 2021 LCS season. Licorice will be replaced by Cloud9 Academy top laner Ibrahim “Fudge” Allami, according to a report from ESPN. Licorice confirmed yesterday on Twitter that he will not be a part of Cloud9’s LCS […]
NACL announces new PUBG league – Esports Insider
The North American Collegiate League (NACL) has launched a new competition for the battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). It has also been revealed that the not-for-profit organisation will operate alongside the Collegiate Battlegrounds Association to host the NACL PUBG League: Fall 2020 Series. RELATED: PUBG MOBILE EMEA League to launch in October Players from across the 220 NACL partnered institutions […]
Overwatch League reportedly considering Season 4 start in April 2021
According to GGRecon, Activision Blizzard has proposed big changes for the fourth Overwatch League season. One of them is an April 2021 start, much later than previous seasons. Arguably the largest change proposed is the introduction of Asian contenders teams playing against main league teams. All these ideas have been brought to the franchise owners, […]