In my 7 years of following Korean Esports, something that always amazed is the Korean scene’s ability to produce a seemingly endless amount of truly great players. Some players make fantastic debuts, others start off slow but become world class with time and a few improve dramatically after they’ve been written off entirely. However, as …
Round 8 Set 1: 7th Heaven vs Rascal Jester 2-1 Despite 7th Heaven being so low in the standings compared to Rascal Jester, you’d think that it’s still winter with the amount of back and forth snowballs going on in this best of three. Each game was a complete shutout after the mid-game, but the …
Most League of Legends fans will remember Kramer as the Flash Wolves AD carry that began a CLG comeback when he was caught by an Elise cocoon under tower, or even for his weak performances with Young Boss in the 2015 KeSPA cup. Swift judgements were made out for Kramer — Most seemed to insinuate …
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As the final week of the NA LCS regular season approaches, nine out of the ten teams will jockey for preferential seeding — be it in the playoffs or the upcoming promotion tournament. Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming will do battle for the coveted first round bye, while Team Solomid will try to avoid an …
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The Taipei Assassins have struggled with identity issues for a little over a year now, making constant efforts to emulate the play seen in Competitive League of Legends’ best league, League Champions Korea. This came with the hiring of their Korean coach, Sim Sun Soo, formerly of Najin Black Sword, and has been their memo …
AUTHOR'S NOTE: From the start of 2015 I have avoided doing investigative journalism work and been hesitant to ever consider myself a journalist. I don’t break news and I don’t perform investigations, I simply promote storylines and write up my own analytical opinions. However, when I receive extremely damaging and harmful evidence of corruption at …
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Set 1: Rascal Jester vs Rampage 0-2 The last two weeks had to have been an incredible highlight for Rampage having not given up early game leads to weaker teams. Luckily this seems like a more positive growth of the team rather than an unfortunate lucky streak that’s about to end. While Rascal Jester has …
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‘Neither Alex nor Cristin get any stake in the new Apex. They have zero access to anything Apex now.’ – Alexis ‘PimpSc00by’ Gepty, Apex Co-Owner. For months there has been speculation surrounding the true ownership of Apex Series LLC and the tournament it runs — but today, Esports Heaven can once and for all put …
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Set 1. Unsold Stuff Gaming vs 7th Heaven 2-1 Five weeks later and the rematch between USG and 7h finally ignite as former 7h players CLOCKDAY and Enty look to exact revenge for their loss of their former team in round 1 of the LJL. While in the first faceoff of these teams showed USG …
Fool me once – goes the famous old phrase – and the shame is all yours, but if you fool me twice, its shame on me. Melee fans are traditionally a bunch that knows how to hold a grudge or stick in position regardless of how the evidence changes, but does that still apply when …
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