Esports & Gaming Articles

Riot introduces the Team Builder

<p>Answering a lot of the community&#39;s requests to incorporate a role-selection tool into League of Legends, Riot announced today a new feature;&nbsp; the Team Builder. Combining elements of WoW&#39;s instance matchmaking system and DotA&#39;s Captain Mode, the Team Builder lets the players choose their role or champion before the champion select pops.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

Gamania Bears Disbands

<p>The underdog team from the SEA region has announced that they are disbanding following their defeat against SKT T1 at the Season 3 World Championships.</p>

Riot prepares to release new skins on PBE

<p>A retextured&nbsp;Rammus model, as well as Officer Vi, Sultan Gangplank, and Victorious Elise skins were recently added to the latest PBE client.</p>

Alliance creative without Loda, F3 safe

<p>After a two-week break, RaidCall EMS One Fall is finally back. Big upsets were avoided in Group B, which features Alliance, F3.Quantic, Menace, and aAa.</p>

LCS: 2014 Spring Promotion Qualifiers

<p>The top 16 teams of NA and top 8 for EUW and EUNE have been chosen for the Spring Promotion Qualifiers. Matches will begin on Saturday, October,19th to start the battle for a chance to go into the Relegation matches.</p>

MaNia retires from competitive play

<p><span style="font-family:tahoma;">A man with a legacy a mile long and one of the truly nicest people you&#39;ll ever meet in e-Sports, Brain &#39;MaNia&#39; Strandby of Flip.sid3 Tactics who has been playing together with the Quantic gaming people most recently has just announced that he will follow in the footsteps of his long time partner in crime Jacob &#39;Maelk&#39; Toft-Andersen, moving on to a managerial and personality role instead.</span></p>

Red Bull release New York Battle Grounds trailer

<p>The hype video comes to remind the StarCraft 2 audience that there&#39;re five weeks to go before Red Bull&#39;s second Battle Grounds tournament, to be held November 23 &amp; 24 in the historic Hammerstein Ballroom.</p>

FXO 4-2 SouL as GSTL resumes for round two

<p>GomTV&#39;s team league started its second round of group stage with a battle on the bottom of the table which resulted in SouL&#39;s fifth loss for the season.</p>

Nexon group stage finished, playoffs starting

<p>The last group stage day of Nexon Sponsorship League is over and all groups are now settled and the group winners come as no surprise; FXO, MVP, Underrated and StarTale.</p>

WCS Q&A with Blizzard: "Season finals will not be continuing in their current form in 2014"

<p>In a long Q&amp;A session, Blizzard&#39;s senior eSports manager Kim Phan answers some of community&#39;s concerns about the future of the WCS in 2014.&nbsp;</p>

WePlay Season 2 second groupstage starts

<p>WePlay is back with the second round of their groupstages, as Group A kicks off tomorrow evening with&nbsp;Alliance, Speed Gaming, Team Empire and RoX.KIS duking it out for two spots in the upcoming four-team playoffs.</p>

ACE's sponsor forces D2L to reschedule

<p>Dota2League suffers some schedule changes close to the start of the season. Instead of two matches a day, five days a week there will be three matches a day, two days a week. The reason is a demand given by ACE&#39;s largest sponsor.</p>