stage – All Articles
Slightly past the Summer Season halfway point, the LCS continues through Week 5 this weekend. Team Liquid had a rough Day 1 and Day 2, losing convincingly to 100 Thieves and Cloud9. This continues a trend for TL on the back half of the year–they lose against the top teams. Unfortunately, Liquid has yet to…
The LCS has gone through a lot of changes for the 2021 season. The format is different, the league has rebranded and most of the teams have almost entirely new rosters. This should be a new era for the LCS for a lot of reasons and heading into the Spring portion of the season (no…
The 2020 League of Legends World Championship begins its Main Event this weekend, with the play-in stage completely wrapped. Team Liquid, PSG Talon, Unicorns of Love and LGD will continue onto the main stage, while all other teams return home. This year’s play-in stage was an exciting one, with several contested matches and upsets. Before…
The 2020 League of Legends World Championship anthem track, “Take Over,” is now available on Spotify. The track features Jeremy McKinnon of A Day to Remember, MAX (Max Schneider), and Henry (Henry Lau). An animated music video depicts Faker training someone by pitting him against legendary Worlds players of the past. LoL Esports and Spotify…
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and lack of support from Nintendo, the competitive Smash scene refuses to die. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments have completely moved online. While these tournaments can be a very different experience than an in-person tournament, it has also given the spotlight to upcoming talent. A young player named Carlos “Sonix”…
LoL Esports announced that Worlds 2020 will take place exclusively in Shanghai, China. It will run September 25 through October 31. This is the first announcement about the event since April 23, when they decided to cancel the Mid Season Invitational, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They stated “This decision also allows us to dedicate…
The 2020 NFL Draft will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada beginning on April 23. On Tuesday, an image was released showing what the stage will look like. The stage will be directly in front of the famous fountains of the Bellagio hotel, on the water. The Los Angeles Times’ Arash Markazi tweeted an image…
The 2019 League of Legends World Championship progresses to the next stage, as the Play-In knockouts begin tomorrow. While every series has a favorite, the match-up between first seed Hong Kong Attitude and second seed Isurus Gaming is the most likely for an upset. These two teams will face off Tuesday, and the winner moves…
Is it just us, or did Dota just get harder? Specifically talking about the new 2019 ranked season. Perhaps, to some, nothing has changed, but to others, their ranked calibration has left them a lot lower than they were last season. Here’s a look into the issue to try and make sense of the new…
The first teams have been eliminated from the 2019 League of Legends World Championship. Detonation FocusMe out of Japan and MAMMOTH out of Oceania finished third in their respective Play-In groups, knocking them out of the tournament. Clutch Gaming, Unicorns of Love, Splyce and Isurus Gaming move on to the Knockout Stage, where a best-of-five…
Royal Youth is having quite a successful 2019. As a rebranded organization in the TCL (previously Royal Bandits), Royal Youth came into the year with İrfan “Armut” Berk Tükek, Can “Closer” Çelik, Lee “GBM” Chang-seok, Na “Pilot” Woo-hyung and Mustafa Kemal “Dumbledoge” Gökseloğlu. This is the organization that narrowly missed qualifying to Worlds last year, with…
Fan-favorite Felipe “brTT” Gonçalves returns to the international stage with newcomers Flamengo Esports out of Brazil. This organization just qualified into the CBLoL for Split 2 last year, so qualifying to their first World Championship one and a half years later is an accomplishment. With some familiar faces and some new ones, Flamengo might be…
European League of Legends fans rejoice as their pink friends finally make their first World Championship. All it took was a region switch. Unicorns of Love joined the LCL this Summer Split, after being denied a spot in the franchised LEC. Within one split, UOL rose to the top of the field and beat Vega…
Hong Kong Attitude returns to the World Championship stage, their first qualification since 2017, and second qualification ever. The road to get here has not been easy, though. HKA enters as the LMS third seed, behind J Team and AHQ. HKA qualified by winning the LMS Regional Qualifier in convincing fashion, with 3-0 victories over…
MEGA, formerly Ascension and Bankok Titans, returns to the world stage with several familiar faces. Rockky, Lloyd and G4 have represented Southeast Asia at the past three major international events, while on MEGA. Lloyd started 2019 in bottom lane, with Jijun jungling. After Spring Season, Lloyd role-swapped to jungle, and MEGA brought on Deul as…
Japan’s number one team for a year and a half, DetonatioN FocusMe returns to the World Championship Play-In stage. They have made every LJL Final since 2014, winning the past three in a row, making DFM one of the most domestically dominant teams of all time. They return to the World Championship with four-fifths of…
Isurus Gaming qualified for the 2019 World Championship, following a fairly dominant year in the LLA. The organization won both Opening and Closing Splits in 2019, despite a slow fourth place start in the Opening regular season. Isurus Gaming was at the Mid Season Invitational earlier this year, where they tied for last place in…
Did anyone expect Dallas to beat NYXL? No. Did anyone expect Timo “Taimou” Kettunen to return and win two maps against one of the best teams in the league? Also no. The Return of DPS Even though Dallas lost that game, it showed hope for the team. Zachary “ZachaREEE” Lombardo was previously in Brigitte jail,…
Glass will break under enough pressure. Seeing something so beautiful slowly crack, fall apart and eventually shatter is heartbreaking. The Dallas Fuel started Season 2 of the Overwatch League as a new team, eager to take on the best and make it to season playoffs. However, the teams that have been pressured in the past…
This is rough for Dallas. The schedule took a turn for the worse after the first half of the season and the Fuel started to crumble. It doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better either, the possibility that the Dallas Fuel go winless for the rest of the season is entirely possible. The…
