“SK Telecom winning is boring.” That phrase and sentiment has spread through the League of Legends’ scene like gossip in a high school. Whether it’s because of romanticising the underdog, a tiredness borne from the perception of a single outcome repeating, the scorn of another fandom, or a lack of knowledge about the subject …
It’s November 5th, the second day of 2016 Hearthstone World Championship. The last two remaining players – Pavel “Pavel” Beltukov from Russia and Artem “DrHippi” Kravets from Ukraine – are tangled in a battle for quarter million dollars in front of 350,000 viewers. It’s the highest-stakes Hearthstone match of all time. The cards are played …
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It’s November 5th, the second day of 2016 Hearthstone World Championship. The last two remaining players – Pavel “Pavel” Beltukov from Russia and Artem “DrHippi” Kravets from Ukraine – are tangled in a battle for quarter million dollars in front of 350,000 viewers. It’s the highest-stakes Hearthstone match of all time. The cards are played …
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Written by: Chase Wassenar ___ Anyone who has taken an economics class is familiar with the infallible laws of supply and demand. At its most simple form, supply and demand have an inverse relationship. People are more likely to buy something when it’s rare or available for a limited time. However, if something is commonplace …
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Anyone who has taken an economics class is familiar with the infallible laws of supply and demand. At its most simple form, supply and demand have an inverse relationship. People are more likely to buy something when it’s rare or available for a limited time. However, if something is commonplace and permeates the market, interest …
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Anyone who has taken an economics class is familiar with the infallible laws of supply and demand. At its most simple form, supply and demand have an inverse relationship. People are more likely to buy something when it’s rare or available for a limited time. However, if something is commonplace and permeates the market, interest …
Continue reading “Esports Sword of Damocles: Oversaturation in the Medium”
Anyone who has taken an economics class is familiar with the infallible laws of supply and demand. At its most simple form, supply and demand have an inverse relationship. People are more likely to buy something when it’s rare or available for a limited time. However, if something is commonplace and permeates the market, interest …
Continue reading “Esports Sword of Damocles: Oversaturation in the Medium”
The last time I wrote a long article predicting SK Telecom T1 to lose a major final, I got pretty badly burnt. In case you missed it, I wrote 4,100 words discussing why I believed ROX Tigers would beat SKT in the LCK Spring Final. Turns out ROX lost 1 – 3, and Twitter …
When you think of the English casters employed by OGN, the first two that probably come to mind are Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles and Erik “DoA” Lonnquist. But there is another caster with excellent game knowledge, a deep history in the League of Legends scene, a smooth voice to go along with it. Obviously, we’re talking …
It’s undeniable that in a lot of spaces where nerds are going to gather, you’ll find a handful of people cosplaying. What is becoming more apparent is that being a cosplayer can become a full time career. Riot Games invited the professional Korean cosplay team, the Spiral Cats, to be a fixture of the Rift …