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.
On the 21st (KST), Riot Games Korea announced the recipients of Player of the Split, Best Coach, Young player in the LCK Awards. The Player of the Split went to Gwak “Bdd” Bo-seong, the Be
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.
On the 20th (KST), DragonX defeated DAMWON Gaming 3-2 in the first round of the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea Playoffs. It was close as DragonX was up 2-0 but let go two straight games. DragonX
On the 20th, in the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea Sprint Split Playoffs, DragonX faced DAMWON Gaming. It was a close 3-2 victory for DragonX as they managed to win the last game. DragonX will
Reapered is really proud of himself and the team, however, he didn't expect this Spring to work out as well as it did. "At the beginning, we were not that insane of a team... We had a lot of problems." Read more on how Reapered and Cloud9 overcame those issues here:
FLY has less than 24 hours to prepare for C9, but AD Carry Jason "WildTurtle" Tran took the time to have a brief conversation with Inven Global's Nick Geracie about defeating EG, the upcoming match against C9, and what this Finals appearance means in context of his career.
FlyQuest has defeated Evil Geniuses 3-1 in the Semifinals of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Playoffs, and will move on to the first Finals match in the organization's history against Cloud9.
The tournament will feature esports professionals of all types from various communities in an eight-team, three-day clash that will be sponsored by HyperX and streamed exclusively on ESPN Esports' Twitch channel.
Curry spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie to talk about FlyQuest's narrow victory over TSM, adjusting to competing online in the post-season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the upcoming Semifinals rematch against Evil Geniuses.
On the 18th (KST), DAMWON Gaming took on kt Rolster in the Wildcard match of the 2020 LCK Spring playoffs. With a set score of 2-1, DWG took down KT to move onto face DragonX in Round 1 of the playoff
"Right now we like what this character can bring to the game and with some adjustments and the community adapting to these adjustments overall it will be a great thing”
On the 18th (KST), in the Wildcard match between DAMWON Gaming and kt Rolster, DWG defeated KT 2-1 to move onto Round 1 of the LCK Spring playoffs. While both teams traded blows to even out the series
On the 18th (KST), kt Rolster faced off against DAMWON Gaming in the Wildcard match of the 2020 LCK Spring playoffs. With a set score of 2-1, DWG took down KT in a very heated match between the two te
On the 18th (KST), Griffin announced that Kim “Wadid” Bae-in joined their League of Legends roster as their newest Support player. With this newest addition to the team, Griffin looks to f
After a dominating second half of the split, Cloud9 Academy climbed through the 2020 League of LCS Academy League Spring Playoffs and beat out Evil Geniuses Academy in a clean 3-0 sweep to take the title. Read more on their victory here:
