ESPORTS WEEKLY UPDATE – STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED!
We’ve gathered the top stories in eSports this week to give you a recap on what’s been happening. The top three highlights are:
- 16 Halo teams competed for the prize pool of 2.5 Million Dollars this week; ultimately it came down to two, CLG and Allegiance.
- North American Challenger side Ember plans to release all of its players except one in the coming weeks.
- ESL & Intels IEM Masters shatters records with 113,000 attending the venue over the course of the event!
Read more on these stories plus some other big news below.
Heroes of the Storm Summer Global Championship Details Released
This year, the Heroes of the Storm Summer Global Championship will take place in Jönköping, Sweden, during DreamHack Summer from June 18-21. The top 12 teams from around the world will compete at the event for a $500,000 prize pool.
However, if that wasn’t enough of an incentive, an additional $100,000 has been added to the European and North American prize pools. The winners of four regional events from North America and Europe will earn a spot at the Summer Global Championship, along with top teams from China, Korea, Australia/New Zealand, Latin American, Taiwan and South East Asia. The total prize pool for the season is set at $1.2 million.
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Esports Hero raises $1M to get gamers competing for cash
You don’t need to quit your job to start making money from playing games.
Esports Hero is a fresh startup in the competitive-gaming space, and it has raised $1 million in financing to expand its real-money cash tournaments. Esports Mogul, an Australian investment group, led the round. With this influx of cash, Esports Hero is hoping to attract new players from a variety of skill levels while also building new features into the platform.
Pro gaming is a budding business that already has 188 million people regularly tuning in for events for games like multiplayer online arena battler League of Legends and shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Intelligence firm SuperData Research projects esports will generate $2 billion in revenue by 2018, and Esports Hero has a strategy to capture a piece of that.
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CLG BECOME THE HALO WORLD CHAMPIONS FOR 2016!
16 Teams competed for the prize pool of 2.5 Million Dollars. Ultimately it came down to two, CLG and Allegiance.
What started with nearly 1,000 teams and over 4,000 players across 5 separate regions it finally came down to 8 teams in the Quarterfinals.
Breaking it down further to the exciting display of semifinals consisting of the best teams in Halo; Elevate, Allegiance, CLG and Denial eSports battled it out to find the top two teams ready to take home the championship. Allegiance took on CLG in a B07 for the finals and after 4 games CLG took the victory with a 4-0 score! Allegiance’s Naded was voted this years MVP! Congratulations to CLG and Allegiance for their phenomenal performances, and you can catch the Final Series here if you missed the event!
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Intel Extreme Masters Shatters eSports Records
The event broke all of ESL’s social media engagement records.
Intel just capped off its tenth year in eSports with its biggest event ever. The Intel Extreme Masters(IEM) World Championship in Katowice, Poland attracted over 113,000 fans to Spodek Arena over the course of the event from March 4 to 6.
That’s up 8% over last year, thanks in part to an expanded IEM Expo featuring 43 booths from gaming companies and other partners interested in the gamer audience.
But the real benefit for Intel, as well as all of the sponsors involved in this mammoth eSports event, was the online audience.
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Will Las Vegas Be The Future Home of eSports?
The Las Vegas Strip could soon be home to an arena for competitive video games if one Chinese company gets its way. The Beijing-based Ourgame International Holdings Ltd, the parent company that owns the World Poker Tour, wants to build an arena for e-sports. They want to build them in many locations around the world, but they see Las Vegas as a prime location.Ourgame already runs an arena in Beijing, and officials said this week that the company was teaming up with other Chinese businesses to expand to other countries.
Add that with the fact that the Downtown Grand casino in Las Vegas has opened their own e-sports lounge and the signs point to Las Vegas developing as an eSports city soon.
Every Friday, the casino also runs eContests in which entrants pay around $15 to compete against other players in games ranging from Madden to Mortal Kombatfor cash prizes. This events regularly draw as many as 50 players with an equal number of spectators.
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Owner of G2 Esports thanks the community for support
G2 was created in 2014 and went right into the challenger series. They didn’t have much success that year, but in the following year they had an exciting 3-2 series win over SK Gaming to claim a spot on the EU LCS.
While they were a new challenger team on the rise, many people respected the roster they had and believed they could be a playoff team. This wasn’t going to be one of those scenarios of a challenger team going into the relegation tournament after their very first split.
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Ember’s investors back out, team will release all players except Contractz
North American Challenger side Ember plans to release all of its players except one in the coming weeks, sources close to the team tell the Daily Dot.
Ember is one of many teams in North America to benefit from a recent influx of investment money into League of Legends and esports in general. But following a series of investor disagreements after its playoff loss versus Team Dragon Knights, the team will release all of its players except Juan “Contractz” Arturo Garcia in the coming weeks, sources say.
That means Colin “Solo” Earnest, Lucas “Santorin” Larsen, Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer, Benjamin “LOD” deMunck, and William “Stunt” Chen, will all soon enter the free agent market.
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