Kelsey Remige joined the Inven Global team at the start of 2020. Her experience in both interviewing professional players in the League of Legends Championship Series and player management at Evolved Talent Agency have helped her craft a nuanced understanding of professional representation in esports. The panel will be rounded out by four branding specialists who work for some of the top organizations in esports.
Overwatch League franchise Vancouver Titans will be returning to the Pacific Division next week, but the team will be out two familiar faces.
2020 marks the 10th year of TI, and the first time it has ever been postponed.
UPDATE 4/30 - The VALORANT Closed Beta has had some difficulties in maintaining server stability to launch Competitive mode. As of 3:30pm PT, the ranked ladder has gone live for North America. If all goes well for NA, then EU will have access to Competitive mode after the hotfix drops on May 1 at 9:30pm CEST. Riot Game also tweeted that Competitive mode could be pulled 'at anytime if things get weird.'
Throughout the 2020-21 season, MAD Lions will work with the Red Cross both in Spain, and internationally focusing on several new campaigns, including: Day Against Bullying, Environment Day, Human Rights Day, Universal Children's Day, and Day Against Gender Violences.
Leena Xu, President of esports organization TSM, faces controversy after screenshots from the team's Discord were used in a video by Duncan "Thorin" Shields. In one screenshot, Xu claims to have attempted to approach many players from Europe on behalf of TSM, and that the players she approached were under contract at the time of her reaching out. Inven Global has confirmed with a source close to the situation that organizations across the globe often go unpunished for the ways in which they circumnavigate certain rules when seeking to sign a player.
Due to the global pandemic caused by the outbreak of COVID-19, the 2020 LCS Summer Split will be played online until it is deemed safe by state officials to gather at the LCS studios in Los Angeles, CA.
Concerns regarding conflicts of interest were brought up regarding the trade due to the Doublelift's history with TSM, but an LCS investigation led to the acquisition's approval when no conflicts of interest were discovered in the AD Carry's most recent move.
Today's panel, 'Oversaturated Content Market', will be hosted by Inven Global Director of Corporate Strategy Nick D'Orazio and will focus on the saturation of certain types of content in the esports and gaming spaces.
Patch 0.49, an upcoming patch Riot Games' tactical shooter VALORANT, will bring the Competitive game mode to the Closed Beta for the first time. On the morning of Friday, April 24, Riot released a guide to the VALORANT's Competitive mode so players can understand how the game's ranking system will work upon its update.
Atari, one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, and developer Chequered Ink, announced today the Windows PC launch of PONG Quest, a new role-playing adventure game inspired by the flagship arcade classic.
The primary subjects of the update were the game balance conversation centered around Raze, who is considered to be the most powerful agent in the game, and concerns surrounding how VALORANT Is planning on putting Anti-Cheat measures into action on a new level
This week's installment of 'Nick's Esports Talks' centers around four specific traits that all enduring esports have in common. Any game that has stood the test of time as a competitive title has checked off the four boxes that this week's lecture will center around.
Riot Games has patched the VALORANT Closed Beta with Patch 0.47+, which primarily addresses the balancing of Raze, Cypher's hilarious 'camera-gun' bug, and environmental changes. A patch during a beta phase is unusual, but the VALORANT developers have done an excellent job in responding to the community's feedback about the upcoming tactical shooter, which is set for release sometime this year.
ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf has reported that Team Liquid AD Carry Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng will be heading back to his former organization TSM. TL put Doublelift on the trading block last week after the team finished in 9th place this spring after four consecutive League of Legends Championship Series championships.
British Esports Association's CEO and two members of its advisory board have been appointed members of the Global Esports Federation's recently announced Education, Culture and Wellness Commission.
Flash promised back in 2010 that if he won too much he would swap to random, and has terraformed the competitive StarCraft scene overnight in fulfilling it.
Esports organization TSM announced that it would begin accepting applications for VALORANT, Riot Games' tactical shooter that is currently in Closed Beta. TSM is looking for both players and content creators of VALORANT and included an application link in its tweet announcing the news.
A clip of a streamer's teammate in a VALORANT Closed Beta game was posted to the Livestream Fail subreddit by Reddit user amaz8, which shows the streamer spectating his teammate using obvious aimbotting to eliminate four opponents. The clip shows the hacker clearly aware of his enemies' locations before they appear.
Cloud9 has secured 1st place in the 2020 LCS Spring Split, the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs championship, the 1st All-Pro Team in all five positions, the Coach of the Split award for Head Coach Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu and the Honda Most Valuable Player award for Jungler Robert "Blaber" Huang. However, one of Zven's accomplishments stands alone: He is the first player to win both a European and North American League of Legends championship.
