“You see, this profession is filled to the brim with unrealistic |||||||||||||. |||||||||||||| who thought their ||| would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don’t. ” -Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction :: The Turtle || IdrA and Francois-Andre Danican Philidor :: …
March 9th marked a rather significant event, it was the final day of the Kung Fu Cup Chinese qualifiers and signaled the completion of the first major event run and organized by eSports Heaven. Although we'd previously worked with our Chinese partners SCBoys NeoTV to provide English language broadcasts for Kung Fu Cup, GPL, and …
With a shift in days for this installment of the ESH Community Series, we have decided to run the tournament on a Sunday as opposed to the usual Wednesday. This is to see whether we can further increase the sign ups as well as allow for more time to run the tournament due to less commitments with Sunday being …
The previous week showed the Japanese teams' progress towards cleaner and faster games. This week was a continuation of that trend, with the addition of complete, one-sided domination. While the matches beforehand were more or less equal in terms of skill, the last three showed that the gap widened fast. The top half slowly gained …
Continue reading “Top Three Delivers Destruction: LJL Round 7”
The first major of 2015 is set to begin in Katowice this month as 16 of the best teams in the world descend upon the Polish city for one of the biggest spectacles of the year. The groups have been drawn, and with the help of UK CS:GO caster ‘Hosselote” I’ll be breaking down the …
:: Prologue || Foreword :: What if it were somehow possible to transcend time and space? What if one could hear tales of distant generations from far-away lands, to harvest their wisdom, discard their folly, to somehow transport that knowledge back to this moment, now, and harness it for one’s personal glory? What if…? Carl …
:: Prologue || Foreword :: What if it were somehow possible to transcend time and space? What if one could hear tales of distant generations from far-away lands, to harvest their wisdom, discard their folly, to somehow transport that knowledge back to this moment, now, and harness it for one’s personal glory? What if…? Carl …
Continue reading “Transcending the Pattern: Aeternus Recurrentia”
On Febuary 27th it was announced that the WCS finals will be held on April 2nd and 3rd in Poitiers at the popular GamersAssembly convention. For many this was welcome news, having StarCraft at a high profile event could help boost the game's popularity and viewership, and perhaps even enable some cross pollination of GamersAssembly …
Continue reading “The Consequence of Tardiness: How Poor Planning and Communication Impacted WCS”
The doors to the next installment of the ESH Community Series are now open! With all prizes now paid out and up to date we wanted to unleash Round 5 of the ESH Community Series upon you lucky DOTA 2 players out there. With some hot competition and the smell of fresh prizes in the air …
Japan is one of the newest competitive scenes in League of Legends. While it has been the origin of many video games since the beginning, it's competitive side is usually more focused towards fighting games such as Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros., and the "Air Dasher" sub genre (Guilty Gear, Persona 4 Arena, BlazBlue). Now …
Continue reading “Rising Stars at the Rising Sun: An Introduction and Five-Week Summary of LJL”