On the 15th (KST), DAMWON Gaming defeated Team Dynamics with a set score of 2-0 in their final round 1 match of the 2020 LCK Summer split. DWG finished round 1 of the split in second place of the stan
Wednesday morning, July 15, TSM announced that they were promoting Treatz to their League Championship Series squad, moving Biofrost to Academy. TSM is coming off their first 0-2 weekend of the Split and looks to bounce back with a fresh face. Read more here:
Garff has become a favorite front-line unit this week, his Protect passive synergizes well with FC Annie to prevent her from being sniped!
On the 15th (KST), DAMWON Gaming took on Team Dynamics in the 2020 LCK Summer split. With a set score of 2-0, DWG dominated Team Dynamics to close out their journey in round 1. The support player for
Riot Games has released a short animation based on the 150th champion, Yone. “The Path, An Ionian Myth” explores the story of Yasuo’s brother, and how he became a champion.
On the 15th (KST), Gen.G defeated Afreeca Freecs with a set score of 2-0 in the 2020 LCK Summer split. With this victory, Gen.G concluded round 1 of the 2020 LCK Summer split with a 7-2 record in the
Despite that, from all 14 cards shown so far, the most interesting one was neither a dual-class card, nor one with the new keyword. Instead, it was Transfer Student — an epic-rarity 2/2 minion for 2 mana, which has different effects based on the game board you're playing on.
On the 15th (KST), Afreeca Freecs took on Gen.G in the 2020 LCK Summer split. With a set score of 2-0, Gen.G took a dominating victory against AF in their last match of round 1. With both sets snowbal
This week in both the League Championship Series and LCS Academy, we saw TSM face off against Immortals. TSM got the Academy win, but Immortals secured the LCS victory. While this type of thing happens all the time - since not every Academy team reflects the strength of their LCS squad - the TSM vs Immortals situation brings a bit of nuance to an otherwise mundane conversation. Before the start of the 2020 LCS Summer Split, Immortals announced a few roster changes, sending three of their Spring
Deus sat down with Inven Global to discuss his promotion up from Academy, his off-season solo queue experience, and how he looks forward to meeting his Academy top lane rival.
Last weekend, Overwatch revealed a new legendary skin and also mentioned that an in-game event would be accompanying the skin's release alongside other potential rewards. Through July 27, players can participate in Sigma's Maestro Challenge for a chance to win up to nine rewards, including the legendary Maestro Sigma skin. Players across PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch will be eligible to participate in the contest.
After crunching the numbers from 48 line-ups and 144 decks total, the Ezreal/Karma Control came out on top with a good lead. Second is the new Darius/Harrowing Aggro, which rose to prominence with Patch 1.4, followed by the revised Lucian/MF Bannerman Scouts.
Although students from around the world recently started their summer break, Hearthstone is headed back to school. On Tuesday morning, Blizzard Entertainment revealed their upcoming expansion for the long-time collectible card game, Scholomance Academy. The fifteenth expansion, set to launch in early August, introduces 135 new cards, including 40 Dual-Class ones that (as the name implies) can be used by two of the ten different classes to create unique playstyles, strategies, and mechanics shared by both.
According to a recent report by ESPN's Jacob Wolf, Origen have signed Jactroll as their new support, replacing Destiny who has played for the team since the start of 2020. Read more on the trade here:
Kim Min-ah, the hostess for the LCK analyst desk, has temporarily stepped down from the LCK.. On the 1st (KST), Kim has been under fire for saying sexual remarks against a minor on the official Korean
After the victory, Xmithie spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about his success vs Doublelift in 2020, the rise of Ignite Graves in the jungle, and playing with two rookie solo laners in Top Laner Kieran "Allorim" Logue and Mid Laner David "Insanity" Challe.
This past weekend, 100 Thieves became the first team to beat Cloud9 this Summer, beating them in the first game of the second round robin of the Split, and tying up their head to head at 1-1. Just a week before that, 100 Thieves made a roster change, adding Juan "Contractz" Garcia and Philippe "Poome" Lavoie-Giguere to the starting roster, replacing William "Meteos" Hartman and William "Stunt" Che
Being a pro gamer is still rather uncommon, so many prejudices towards it remain. One of them is that if a pro gamer starts dating, their career plummets. Kang “Ambition” Chan-yong and fir
UPDATE 7/13: Donald Trump's Twitch account has returned to the platform after the two-week hateful content suspension.
The year of 2020 has brought an abnormal reality to fandom culture. While esports and gaming conferences got canceled as the pandemic progressed, they were not the only events to suffer from the current conditions: pop culture and anime conventions also saw themselves readjusting to the new norm.
