Valve Corporation announced Wednesday that The International 10 – Dota 2 Championships will be held this October in Bucharest, Romania. T10 was set to take place in Sweden in August, but Valve announced last month that it would not be hosting the event in the country because the Swedish Sports Federation voted not to accept […]
Brazilian esports organization LOUD announced Submarino, one of the biggest and most traditional companies in Brazilian e-commerce, as its newest sponsor. Besides brand exposure on LOUD’s team jerseys and social media, Submarino will also count on five LOUD influencers to be brand ambassadors, an advertising campaign, and a partnered store on the Submarino marketplace to […]
Chinese esports solution provider VSPN and Tencent jointly announced that the 2021 Peacekeeper Elite World Championship (PEC) would be postponed due to the current global pandemic. The original PEC event will be replaced by Peace Elite Super Cup 2021, a new domestic event that features a ￥2 million ($310,000) and will be sponsored by OPPO. […]
It was a big weekend for global Counter-Strike: Global Offensive action, with channels topping the charts across multiple tournaments. Also of note, Korea’s League of Legends pro league continues to lead the way in the game’s weekly viewership. Twitch’s Top Channel – Gaules It was a big week for CS:GO (and NBA) streamer Gaules, but […]
As FaZe Clan members and influencers such as Youtuber Bryan Quang “RiceGum” Le and Sommer Ray, who were involved in promoting the fake crypto token charity Save The Kids, deal with the fallout from their involvement (Frazier “FaZe Kay” Khattri was removed from the organization on July 1, while three others were suspended), the community […]
Playfly Sports-owned CSL Esports has partnered together with non-profit National Association of Collegiate Esports, esports infrastructure company Nerd Street Gamers, and software company Mainline to launch the largest collegiate esports league in North America: the NACE Starleague. The new entity will feature many participating schools from the established leagues operated by CSL and NACE including […]
Toronto-Dominion Bank has expanded its partnership with OverActive Media to now cover both of the organization’s Activision Blizzard franchise league teams. TD will now serve as the official bank of both the Toronto Defiant and Toronto Ultra. This expansion adds a second team to the deal which began with TD’s sponsorship of Toronto Defiant last […]
On Thursday evening esports organization FaZe Clan announced via social media that it had cut ties with Frazier “FaZe Kay” Khattri and suspended members Jarvis “FaZe Jarvis” Khattri, Nikan “FaZe Nikan” Nadim, and Jakob “FaZe Teeqo” (last name unknown) “until further notice.” The announcement from FaZe occurred after internet sleuths uncovered transaction details related to […]
Vindex-owned esports production and tournament company Esports Engine has announced the hire of Janet Shim as Director of Program Operations. Shim will lead strategy and program design across Esports Engine’s various broadcast and tournament operation clients. In 2020, Shim was part of the Riot Games team which received the 2020 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding […]
Helsinki-based startup Loupedeck announced that it has raised a €2 million EUR ($2.36 million USD) investment from zVentures, the corporate venture arm of Razer. The startup, which was founded in 2016 with an oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign, plans to use the investment proceeds to support its growth. Loupedeck specialized in making digital input device consoles for creative software and live streaming. The company entered the live streaming market […]
