This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid.
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eSports Weekly 09/19/16
2016 League of Legends World Championship
The biggest international tournament for the biggest eSport is finally here: the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. With over $2 million on the line and eternal glory, six different regions and sixteen teams will come together across the United States.
The first event is the Group Stage which will take place in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA from September 29 - October 2 and October 6-9.
Next, the Quarterfinals takes place in The Chicago Theater in Chicago, IL from October 13-16.
After that, the Semifinals takes place in iconic Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.
Finally, the Finals are set to come back to the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA. Notably, the same location as the 2013 Worlds Finals.
Last week, the Group Draws took place and the top teams of each region were placed into their groups.
Here are the groups:
Group A:
- Rox Tigers (LCK)
- G2 Esports (EU LCS)
- Counter Logic Gaming (NA LCS)
- Albus Nox Luna (CIS)
Group B:
- Flash Wolves (LMS)
- SK Telecom T1 (LCK)
- Team I May (LPL)
- Cloud9 (NA LCS)
Group C:
- Edward Gaming (LPL)
- AHQ e-Sports Club (LMS)
- H2k Gaming (EU LCS)
- INTZ e-Sports (CBLoL)
Group D:
- TSM (NA LCS)
- Royal Never Give Up (LPL)
- Samsung Galaxy (LCK)
- Splyce (EU LCS)
The top two of each group will qualify for the Quarterfinals in Chicago.
Thank You: Looking Back on Ten Years
Thank You: Looking Back on Ten Years
Faker 1v3 as Xin Zhao
Faker 1v3 as Xin Zhao (Korea SoloQ)
Forg1v3n with the 1v3 outplay on Ezreal
Forg1ven with the 1v3 outplay on Ezreal in Korean soloQ
Faker "INSANE" outplay of Rush
Legends Rising Season 2: Episode 3 - Revolver
Legends Rising Season 2: Episode 3 - Revolver
DreamHack Bucharest 2016
DreamHack Bucharest 2016 was a Premier tournament that took place from September 16-19 in Bucharest, Romania. With a prize pool of $100,000, eight different teams competed in a double elimination group stage and a single-elimination playoff.
Here were the participating teams:
- Cloud9
- Team Dignitas
- Team EnVyUs
- FaZe Clan
- FlipSid3 Tactics
- Virtus.pro
- Gambit Gaming
- Heroic
Here's how the tournament went:
Virtus.pro and Team EnVyUs got out of Group A and Cloud9 and Team Dignitas got out of Group B.
In the Playoffs, Virtus.pro and Cloud9 both beat their Semifinal match 2-1 to advance to the Finals. In the Finals, Virtus.pro was able to sweep Cloud9 2-0 by taking Train 16-9 and Cobblestone 16-9 as well. With this win, Virtus.pro earned $50,000 and are the DreamHack Bucharest Champions.
ESL Pro League Season 4
The fourth season of the ESL Pro League has started in both Europe and North America. This premier tournament runs from August 17 to October 13 to the finals in Brazil from October 28-30. The Finals involves a $750,000 prize pool and the top four seeds from EU and NA respectively.
ESL Pro League EU Standings & Results
ESL Pro League NA Standings & Results
Neo 1v5
Pasha Insane 1v4
pasha insane 1v4
Markeloff solves a mystery
Friberg finishes the ace clutch
Skadaddy burning Flipside's chances of taking the round
Roca huge 4k
Stanislaw 1v4 ACE
Maikelele 3k Deagle
Dota 2
MarsTV Dota 2 League 2016 Autumn
The MarsTV Dota 2 League 2016 Autumn tournament takes place in Xiamen, China from September 28 to October 2. Only LGD Gaming and Newbee are confirmed so far as its participants.
Blitz gets Outplayed
Cancel doto in action
Overwatch
Overwatch World Cup 2016
The Overwatch World Cup has sixteen teams representing different nations competing from November 5-6 in BlizzCon, Anaheim, California.
The countries that are represented are:
- Brazil (Invited)
- Canada (Invited)
- China (Invited)
- South Korea (Invited)
- United States (Invited)
- Australia/New Zealand (Invited)
- Chile (American Qualifier)
- Finland (European Qualifier)
- France (European Qualifier)
- Germany (European Qualifier)
- Russia (European Qualifier)
- Spain (European Qualifier)
- Sweden (European Qualifier)
- Singapore (Asia-Pacific Qualifier)
- Taiwan (Asia-Pacific Qualifier)
- Thailand (Asia-Pacific Qualifier)
Lenovo Cup
WePlay.tv and Lenovo organized the Overwatch Lenovo Cup, featuring 8 teams and a $8,000 prize pool. Taking place from September 5-22, teams will first play in a Group Stage and a double elimination playoff. Here are the teams participating:
- REUNITED
- Misfits
- Team Dignitas
- Luminosity Gaming
- ANOX
- TORNADO ROX
- Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Team EndPoint
So far, Misfits and REUNITED have taken the first and second place seeds in Group A while Ninjas in Pyjamas and Luminosity Gaming took Group B. With these group stage results, these four teams will face each other in the Semifinals while TORNADO ROX and Team Dignitas, the third place teams, will play against the Losers.
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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.