Daigo Umehara, one of the greatest legends to ever touch a video game. While he found his unfortunate demise early on in the top 8 and failed to win ELEAGUE, he's still historically regarded as the greatest player of all time. Daigo talks with us about the increasing amounts of tournaments, what it takes to …
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LI Joe is quite the veteran in the fighting game space. While his heart is in playing the games at a high level, he's established himself as a concrete figure in the community. LI Joe walks us through his focuses within the scene. _____ Interview conducted by Adam Baugh Follow the interviewr on …
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SK: a group of Brazilian players that have innovated the way in which the game is played. They have come all the way from Brazil and had to put up with poor conditions on Luminosity. All of this in order to win and put Brazil’s mark on the Counter-Strike scene, a country that has been …
The Wachowskis famed trilogy, “The Matrix” tells the story of the hacker Neo who had been born in a world built on shrewd facade and vivid lies. He, in turn, is the only one who can possibly lift the veil and show the world that “anything is possible.” In the same sense, the Trojan Horse …
One of the more awkward stories in Korean League of Legends is that of Longzhu Gaming, formerly known as Incredible Miracle. After a 4 year run in the scene the rebrand was well warranted, the organization's time in LoL has been anything but an incredible miracle. The organization has had players such as Reignover, although …
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“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in awhile you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.” – Nolan Ryan, MLB hall of fame pitcher. That feeling Nolan expresses can be applied to any challenge in life that pushes …
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RadoN’s thousand is a series of articles in which I share my take on an esports topic of my choosing in about a thousand words.This entry attempts to explain the recurrence of same questions across all new esports titles and elaborates on author's usage of tier lists. One of the hottest debate topics among the …
It's rare to find someone in esports with the kind of history that Kevin ‘Rotterdam’ van der Kooi has. Establishing himself as a top European Orc player and commentator during Warcraft 3’s heyday, Rotterdam entered the age of StarCraft 2 carrying a lot of weight to his name. Weight alone won’t make a career though. …
One of the keys to the success of any region in Esports is the abilities of the teams to acquire talent. There exists a multitude of ways that the teams can go about in order to acquire said talent, ranging from poaching established talent to importing from other regions, but the simplest way is to …
Street Fighter 4 had Evolution 2014 Champion, Luffy, to write the book on his character of choice, Rose. Bisu, BoxeR, and Savior were all revolutionists in their respective races in Starcraft: Brood War. Competitors in esports will always look to explore and push the limits of their craft, no matter what the game. The …
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