I spoke to quite a few professionals during my time at DreamHack Montreal. It seemed like every time I asked who they had pegged as the best up and comer in the North American StarCraft scene, there was one name on their mind: GAMETIME. After a breakout performance earlier in the year at WCS Austin, …
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Rachel ‘Seltzer’ Quirico has become synonymous with the world of esports. Having rooted herself within the industry in its earliest days, Rachel continues to further herself and the esports industry on whole, providing top level hosting talents wherever she can. With the years of esports experience that Rachel Quirico has in her history, there are …
This has been a benchmark year for Jessica ‘ZombieGrub’ Chernega. The SC2 caster recently wrapped up work on her first ever WCS event at WCS Montreal. For any SC2 caster, the dream goal has to be casting a premier event alongside people like ToD, Rotterdam, iNcontroL, and the other top names in the scene. It's …
Lucas "Leaf" Loison is one of the star DPS players for the rising Overwatch team, GamersOrigin. Most notably, he has been one of the strongest Doomfists we’ve seen thus far. GamersOrigin is currently 2-2 and is currently in 4th place in the standings. Leaf sat down and spoke candidly about his thoughts on Doomfist and …
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There comes a point where hard work meets perseverance at the crossroads of determination and courage. Christopher "ChrisTFer" Graham has been through the Overwatch wringer and come out the other side with quite the impressive resume. ChrisTFer was a former member of one of the stronger unsponsored teams all the way back in late 2016; …
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Gambit is a name that many fans of early League of Legends hold dear. For a long time, they were the only team from Russia who were competitive in the League circuit, and as such the name and legacy of Gambit Esports is inextricably linked to the CIS region. Their first team was the famed …
Hear ye, Hear ye! Daniel "Boink" Pence—support player for Team FNRGFE, of House Pence, The Biggest Boink, He who has been banned from many TF2 Servers, The Slayer of mR.jINGLE, The Statistical Outlier, Breaker of Immortals, King of All Corndogs, and He who goes fast—has graced us with his presence with a brief interview after …
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“Meet the Koreans” is a series of articles dedicated to introducing and popularizing Korean Overwatch and its storylines among Western fans. This entry focuses on what the potential superrosters — at the moment only in rumors but likely soon-to-be a reality — mean for Korea's favorite team, Lunatic-Hai. When aficionados of Overwatch's esports scene are …
In Overwatch, nothing excites me more than when a team fuses creativity and flexibility with a dash of innovation. That being said, with those three words there are a few names that I would expect to jump to the forefront of your thoughts, but one should stand out. With Meta Athena’s upcoming game against …
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RadoN’s thousand is a series of articles in which I share my take on an esports topic of my choosing in about a thousand words. This entry focuses on id Software’s latest title, Quake Champions. This year's QuakeCon was the first not to feature Quake Live on stage since its introduction in 2008. Initially developed …