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eSports Weekly 05/30/16
League Championship Series Summer Split 2016
All of the leagues are currently on break. However, one of the biggest format overhauls in LCS history is about to take place. With the introduction of best of threes in North America and best of twos in Europe, the scheduling of the two leagues will be completely different.
Here's the details for NA:
As you can see Saturday and Sunday will features two consecutive streams in order to accommodate for all of the additional games. With this format, you can be assured that the LCS will be drastically different league.
NA LCS Recap and Standings
Week 11 Preview
The NA LCS starts this upcoming week with TSM vs CLG on Friday. Not only is this a classic rivalry, CLG beat TSM in the Spring Split Finals making this best of three rematch particularly exciting. The other match to watch will be Cloud9 vs Immortals on Saturday.
Look at the full schedule here.
EU LCS Recap and Standings
Week 11 Preview
The EU LCS also starts with the finals rematch with Origen vs G2 Esports. Vitality vs Fnatic on Friday should also be an exciting match to watch given how close they were in the standings last split.
LCK Recap and Standings
The first week of LCK has already begun with two new teams, MVP and ESC Ever), that seem leaps stronger than the Kongdoo Monsters and SBENU SONICBOOM.
Day 1:
- Afreeca Freecs vs Longzhu Gaming (2-0)
- CJ ENTUS vs ESC Ever (0-2)
Day 2:
- ROX Tigers vs Samsung Galaxy (0-2)
Day 3:
- MVP vs KT Rolster (0-2)
Day 4:
- Jin Air Green Wings vs Longzhu Gaming (2-0)
The notable games are ESC Ever vs CJ ENTUS with fantastic bard play from Key and ROX Tigers vs Samsung Galaxy. MVP vs KT Rolster was also a thrilling series with a insane comeback from KT (see highlights).
Here are the standings after one week of play:
| 1. Afreeca Freecs (1W-0L)
1. KT Rolster (1W-0L) 1. Samsung Galaxy (1W-0L) 1. Jin Air Green Wings (1W-0L) 1. ESC Ever (1W-0L) 6. ROX Tigers (0W-1L) 6. MVP (0W-1L) 6. CJ ENTUS (0W-1L) 9. Longzhu Gaming (0W-2L) -. SKTelecom T1 (0W-0L) |
Week 2 Preview
The series to watch is SKT vs KT Rolster. With another rivalry match, KT will be looking to get payback for last split's semifinals match.
LPL Recap and Standings
Here are the results of week 1:
Day 1:
- Edward Gaming vs NewBee (2-1)
- Snake Esports vs Game Talents (1-2)
Day 2:
- Royal Never Give Up vs Team World Elite (2-1)
- OMG vs I MAY (0-2)
Day 3:
- Edward Gaming vs Snake Esports (2-0)
- Game Talents vs Saint Gaming (2-0)
- NewBee vs Invictus Gaming(2-1)
Day 4:
- LGD Gaming vs I MAY (0-2)
- Royal Never Give Up vs Vici Gaming (2-0)
- Team World Elite vs OMG (2-0)
The teams to watch are Edward Gaming and Royal Never Give Up - two of the Chinese powerhouses.
Here are the standings after one week of play:
Group A
| 1. Game Talents (2W-0L)
2. Edward Gaming (2W-0L) 3. NewBee (1W-1L) 4. Invictus Gaming (0W-1L) 4. Saint Gaming (0W-1L) 6. Snake Esports (0W-2L) |
Group B
| 1. I MAY (2W-0L)
2. Royal Never Give Up (2W-0L) 3. Team World Elite(1W-1L) 3. LGD Gaming (0W-1L) 3. Vici Gaming (0W-1L) 6. OMG (0W-2L) |
Insane Azir Ult from Easyhoon and Bard Ult from Mata
Insane Azir ult from Easyhoon and Bard ult from Mata
Crazy ending of MVP vs KT game
Crazy ending of a MVP vs KT game
Perfect Bard + Ashe CC Chain by ESC Ever
Perfect Bard + Ashe CC Chain
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Esports Championship Series Season 1
The eSports Championship Series, organized by FACEIT and Twitch, boasts an aggregate $3.5 million prize pool. The tournament features two leagues: Europe and North America, with ten teams in each league. The League is formatted with a round robin in best of threes.
The Group Stage and Playoffs for both the NA and EU regions have finished.
The top two teams are automatically entered into the final tournament. Teams in seeds 3-6 then play in best-of-three bracket. The top two teams of this bracket qualify for the finals.
Here are the results for this week:
North America:
Europe:
The final tournament takes place from June 24th to June 26th in the SSE Arena, Wembley. These are the final participants:
- Astralis (Europe #1)
- G2 Esports (Europe #2)
- Fnatic (Europe #3)
- Ninjas in Pyjamas (Europe #4)
- Luminosity (North America #1)
- Cloud9 (North America #2)
- Team Liquid (North America #3)
- Team SoloMid (North America #4)
ELEAGUE Season 1
ELEAGUE, organized by Turner Sports and WME/IMG, is a new premier CS:GO tournament that features an outstanding $1,200,00 prize pool. Running from May 24th to July 30th, the tournament will be broadcast on TBS and is geared towards appealing to a broad audience.
Group A has finished with Luminosity Gaming finishing first with an undefeated 6-0 record. Cloud9 finished second with a 3-3 record with Renegades closed behind in third also going 3-3. In the Group Playoffs Luminosity continued to demonstrate their dominance, only dropping a single map against Cloud9 in the Finals. Notably, this was the first match ever aired over U.S. national television. With this win, Luminosity is guaranteed a spot in the final playoffs. The other three teams of the group can still qualify in the "Last Chance" playoffs where the two winning teams also qualify for the playoffs.
Here is all of the results for Group A:
This upcoming week, Group B begins with Ninjas in Pyjamas, G2 Esports, Selfless Gaming, and OpTic Gaming.
ELEAGUE: Koosta loses round by throwing a molly
Koosta loses the round by throwing a molly
ELEAGUE: TACO knifes n0thing
Stewie2K knife on Yam
Yung Stew Knife on Yam
Shox Crazy Entry Frags
Fnatic insane last second retake vs mouse
Fnatic insane last second retake vs mouse
Dota 2
The Manila Major
The Manila Major Group Stage begins this coming week. With three million dollars on the line, the best teams in the world will be competing.
Here are the groups:
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Overwatch
While the game has been released for just a week, tournaments have been going on since the closed beta.
Agents Rising
Agents Rising was the biggest Overwatch event yet with a $10,000 prize pool and some of the best teams in North America. It was a LAN event taking place in the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California from May 28th to the 29th. The most notable teams were Cloud9, Gale Force Esports, and Team Liquid. Agents Rising also featured a new scoring system which involved the following:
- Each match will either be a best of three or a best of five. The match will end if a team is unable to tie or pass the opposing team’s score. In the event of a tie score at the end of a match, a single round of KOTH on a random map will determine the winner.
- On payload and point capture maps, each team gets one point for successfully attacking or defending.
- If each team successfully attacks, then the team with the fastest time receives one bonus point.
- If each team successfully defends then the team that reached the farthest objective gets a bonus point. If both teams reached the same point, then no bonus point is awarded.
- On KOTH maps, each team receives one point for a successful point capture.
Here's how the tournament went down:
In the grand finals, Cloud9 faced Team Liquid and won 6-3 cementing their place as the current team to beat in this new game.
Cloud9 vs Team Liquid Last Match Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0cIks22ac
Carnage ON FIRE against Gale Force
Amazing move from Surefour to make a Team Kill
Sources:
- GosuGamers:
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James Hwang
My first MMOs included Ragnarok Online, Gunbound, Diablo II, and World of Warcraft. Nowadays, my wife (also a writer on MMOs) and I play League of Legends and any other MMOs we can get our hands on. I also love following eSports and attending eSports events.