With the conclusion of The International 5 qualifiers, we now know the eighteen teams headed to Seattle. But the qualifiers revealed much more than that, and after half a month of intense Dota, here are five things we’ve learned from watching them: #5: A repeat of The International 4 finals is still a very …
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Esports Heaven is pleased to announced the GamerBet Open, a $100 weekly tournament sponsored by GamerBet and brought to you by eSports Heaven. The tournament is open to players of all regions and will begin every on June 9th and will continue every Tuesday at 5:00PM CEST 11:00AM EDT. In addition to the $100 prize …
StarCraft 218 BC: A Real Life Space Odyssey .:: A Real Life Space Odyssey | (Prologue) ::. Imagine for one moment the world’s two great superpowers staring greedily across a vast body of water at the lands of the other. Imagine the clash of three great houses; a tale of blood …
↵ “It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.” –Garry Kasparov .:: The Machine || NaDa …
Just a little over a year ago, things were looking great for the North American CS:GO scene. Not only was there a North American team that was capable of upsetting top tier international teams (iBUYPOWER), their rival domestic squad, compLexity Gaming, had just moved to a different eSports organization with considerably more money (Cloud9). Everyone …
By Conor "Anima" Kinahan Follow him at @Anima082 At 25 Years Old, Frej “kHRYSTAL” Sjostrom could be seen as a veteran in the eSports world. Having competed at both Dreamhack Winter, and Intel Extreme Masters, Sjostrom is known for his high-performance, no-nonsense play style. I recently had the chance to sit down and chat with …
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By Conor "Anima" Kinahan follow him on Twitter @Anima_082 ESEA had an already colorful history when it came to controversy. In 2013, they were accused of running an unauthorized botnet to mine cryptocurrency, a claim that would later be revealed by Eric “lpkane” Thunberg to be true. in a series of posts on ESEA’s …
ESEA had an already colorful history when it came to controversy. In 2013, they were accused of running an unauthorized botnet to mine cryptocurrency, a claim that would later be revealed by Eric “lpkane” Thunberg to be true. in a series of posts on ESEA’s private forums. Now almost two years later, ESEA are at …
by Conor “Anima” Kinahan follow him on Twitter @Anima_082 The crosshair. It’s more than a player’s point of aim, it’s how we interact with the world in CS:GO. Almost all key gameplay elements other than movement are functions of the crosshair. Aim, flicks, corner snapping, prefiring, headshots, wallbangs, and most importantly, defusals. The importance …
↵ “It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.” –Garry Kasparov .:: The Machine || NaDa …