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Tucker Roberts will be the keynote speaker at the Inven Global Esports Investment Summit 2020
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!
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Golden Guardians dives into more esports titles, signs Apex Legends, World of Warcraft and Teamfight Tactics roster
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
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Hearthstone balance changes aim to nerf "Shamanstone"
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.
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[SOURCES] UPDATED: Riot adds two Monday games to LCS schedule, includes Academy in-studio games on weekend
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:
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Teamfight Tactics patch 9.24b brings changes to unit scaling, Nocturne, and more
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.
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FunPlus Phoenix is reportedly paying Khan over $2 million per season
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.
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Riot Games reports record-breaking 21.8 million average minute audience for Worlds 2019 — over 1 billion hours watched in total
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
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The LCS is the 3rd most popular sports league for young adults across all major sports in the US
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:
