The following was sent to Inven Global as a press release. HARRISBURG, Pa. – (December 20, 2019) The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Esports Association (PIEA) announced its official launch today,
Riot Games is fusing two competitve League of Legends leagues to become one big region. The League of Legends Master Series (LMS), founded in 2014 and comprised of teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mac
On the 20th of December (KST), KeSPA made an official announcement for the players of the 16 teams that will be competing in the 2019 KeSPA Cup Round 1. Round 1 of the tournament will take place at th
Irvine, California – December 18, 2019 – Joycity is pleased to announce one of the most popular characters from The War of Genesis series, Sherazard. Sherazard is a healer that possesses a
As a result of a massive increase in Arena Duos matchmaking, Fortnite is adding over 20,000 new placements to allow more players an opportunity to win big in the 2019 Winter Royale. Due to the increased number of competitors, the prize pool for the event will also be increased.
The premiere North American LoL Esports competition returns with the 2020 LCS Spring Split on January 25th, and 12 days prior, IMT will host fans of all ages at Button Mash in Echo Park to commemorate its first split participation in two full seasons.
In partnership with FaZe Clan, Kiari Kendrell "Offset" Cephus is leading the streetwear-meets-esports scene.
It wouldn't be esports if there wasn't some sort of competition happening! Inven Global is selecting 6 esports companies seeking investment to present in front of our panel of judges and invite-only audience. Come join us!
North American esports organization Golden Guardians continue to make changed to their organization. After the rebrand of the team, which saw the old logo and colors being updated, an announcement of
On Wednesday afternoon, the Hearthstone development team released a blog post detailing their most recent round of nerfs to their collectible card game and auto-chess game mode, Battlegrounds. With the Descent of Dragons expansion launching a little more than a week ago, this round of nerfs is the fastest to come after a card set was introduced in the game's history. As "Shamanstone" has returned as a meme within the community due to the class's higher-than-average power-level, the development team moved quickly to even out the playing field prior to members of the company taking a holiday break in the upcoming days. While there are numerous cards in the current meta that individuals suspected would be targeted in this round of balance changes, three Shaman cards and one neutral power-house were hit.
On the 18th (KST), Vici Gaming announced via their official Weibo that Lee “PoohManDu” Jeong-hyeon has joined their League of Legends team as a coach.
The teaser for prologue was unveiled at The Game Awards 2019 last week.
The LCS is changing their schedule for 2020, the first time since they switched to "Bo1" two years ago. They will emphasize Academy games, adding them in the midst of LCS, and there will be games from Fri-Mon. Read more on how the new schedule will look here:
Clearlove joined EDG upon its inception at the beginning of 2014, and now, he will be trusted to lead it.
Premier Events will gather the top online competitors from each global region. The best performers will earn increased Apex Legends Global Series Points and advanced placement invitations to Majors.
As the holidays approach, the Teamfight Tactics team wants to make sure the auto-battler is in as good a state as possible prior to employees taking a little break to spend time with their families. On Monday night, Stephen "Mortdog" Mortimer, the game's Lead Designer, fired up his Twitch stream to unveil what was coming in patch 9.24b. Scheduled to go live on Wednesday, the b-side patch will be larger than most, if not the largest of Set 2. "With the holiday, we wanted to make sure the game was in as good a state as possible and there are some things currently on live that we are not okay with," said Mortimer. "The meta has been pretty diverse which is nice but there are a few builds that are exceeding our expectations." The specific changes, which are subject to change if the development team feels necessary, are below.
FunPlus Phoenix confirmed as of December 16 that it had signed former SK Telecom T1 Top Laner Kim “Khan” Dong-ha, and according to a tweet by ESPN Esports’ Tyler “FionnOnFire” Erzberger, Khan will he paid over $2 million per season by FPX.
Dignitas announced that Matthew "Akaadian" Higginbotham will be joining the Academy team in the jungle position.
It's hard to believe, but the 2019 League of Legends World Championship is already over a month behind us. Today Riot Games released a report with the numbers of the event, both viewership-related and
Despite "dead game" memes plaguing League of Legends all year, the LCS and most of professional League is on an upswing. According to a recent study, Riot is the third most popular sport in all of the US. Read more here:
