Watch the second episode of our podcast, Esports Weekly, where we discuss the mass exodus of players from the Overwatch League as well as the ongoing situation surrounding TSM and their various conflicts of interest. Learn more about the podcast here:
Watch the first episode of our newest podcast, Esports Weekly, where Inven Global reporter, Parkes Ousley, hosts discussions around current happenings in the esports scene along with co-reporter, Nick Geracie and Lara Lunardi.
Riot Games announced their new tactical shooter, VALORANT, will launch on June 2nd globally. Despite the restrictions, they've been impressed with the Closed Beta and feel confident in their launch date. Read what will be featured in the launch here.
Our editorial team has gone through Twitter to find the best and most strange versions of the Sailor Moon Redraw x League of Legends art trend.
Evil Geniuses announced a return back to their roots, revising the crest to "pay homage to the org's history and look ahead to the future." Additionally, Evil Geniuses is also announcing a partnership with LG UltraGear, one of LG's newest gaming monitors. Read more on their brand update here:
Team Liquid made a few changes to both their LCS and Academy squads this off-season, sending former Academy Bot Laner Tactical to the LCS squad to replace the winningest LCS player of all time, Doublelift. Listen to Tactical's experience and plans for the future here:
The import players are both owed a grand total of R$65,000, around $11,200.
TSM refused to be satisfied with a top 4 finish in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs, and defined the off-season right from the start in bringing Doublelift back into the fold of the baylife banner. The resulting ripple effect has led to a tumultuous couple of weeks for TSM, but if the team can win its first LCS championship since Doublelift was last on the squad - 2017 NA LCS Summer - it may once again solidify itself as the most decorated organization in North American LoL history.
The game will receive balance changes that aim to benefit support champions. Champions that were struggling in the past, like Nidalee, Sivir, Lux, and Udyr have received a generous buff, making them more viable picks.
TSM released former AD Carry, Kobbe, who signed with Misfits Gaming to start for the team in the Summer 2020 League of Legends European Championship. With the transfer, Misfits also announces former AD Carry Bvoy's departure from the team. Read more on the story here.
Tomo will start for the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Academy League Spring champion in place of Calvin 'K1ng' Truong while K1ng is in his home country of Australia for visa purposes.
Despite overwhelming global support for the Polish AD Carry, Łukasz "Puki Style" Zygmunciak, in this week's freshest esports Twitter movement, LDLC and Bora "YellOwStaR" Kim claim the European Masters Championship. Though each game was a battle, they won the series with a clean 3-0 sweep and are your Spring 2020 Champions. All three games saw LDLC on Blue Side and K1ck on Red, and each were incredibly close. While LDLC had solid control for Game 1, K1ck actually had a strong advantage up through the mid game in both Games 2 and 3. In each of the last two games, K1ck secured the first three drakes, but failed to execute in each teamfight around the final drake to secure their Soul. With each lost fight, LDLC was able to claim additional resources to eventually take both games and, consequen
Riot Games has been teasing details about the rework of Volibear for some time, and on the night of Friday, May 8, the League of Legends community got a full look at everything new about The Thunder's Roar.
Riot Games has recently been under fire for not taking proper care of their solo queue environment. Even Voyboy made a video earlier this week, and now Riot has responded. Here's their plan to improve the playerbase.
What started as an outbreak in Wuhan and the delay of the LPL in China led to a plethora of canceled and reformatted events around the globe. The Coronavirus outbreak has affected many aspects of esports, here is the list so far:
Team Liquid has made an off-season splash ahead of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split by signing Joshua "Jatt" Leesman as its Head Coach. Jatt has spent the majority of the past decade as a caster and an analyst for Riot Games' LCS broadcast.
Moon most recently debuted as Head Coach for Radiance, an esports organization founded by former League of Legends professional player Hai "Hai" Lam.
One of the greatest ADCs of all time, Uzi, is now a Free Agent after his contract expired with Royal Never Give Up yesterday, April 30th. He has played over 400 games with the organization since his start back in 2012, but has been inactive since Worlds 2019. Learn more about his free agency here:
Riot Games announced their first global TFT tournament, the TFT: Galaxies Championship. However, it left off a few of the main League of Legends regions, including Oceania. But now they're here, uniting with NA for a chance to represent their region in the Grand Finals of the TFT: Galaxies Championship. Read more on their inclusion and the tournament's changes here:
Find the complete list of nerfs and buffs in patch 10.9, featuring, Kayn, Gnar, Nami, Wukong, Bard and more.
