IEM Cologne - The Final Day

Of the sixteen players that made it to the group stage, eight are through to the playoff stage of the competition. Jung "Rain" Yoon Jong, Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok, Jo "Patience" Ji Hyun and Jung "jjakji" Ji Hoon qualified through Groups A&B on Thursday 14th February. They were joined a day later by the likes […]

LCS Europe heads into week 5

After four weeks of LCS Europe, the participants have split into two groups. Fnatic, Gambit and Roccat fired up a close and exciting quarrel for the head of the standings. The second category of teams is even closer, with four teams being tied and Millenium straight behind. Under these circumstances, almost all of this week's […]

UK and PL are decided, DE and CIS this weekend

Four out of six Regional Finals are done and so far the favorites were able to come out on top. This weekend we will see the Regional Finals in Germany and the CIS closing this part of the qualification while all remaining teams can look forward to the EU Qualifiers taking place next week. Will […]

IEM Cologne - All you need to know

Of the twenty-eight players taking part in Intel Extreme Master Cologne, five have already earned themselves a World Championship position. The pressure is on for the remaining twenty-three, as Cologne is the last chance for players to qualify for the Finals in Poland through an IEM stop. The players that place in the top two […]

Intel Extreme Masters Cologne to be the toughest tournament of the year?

Twenty-eight players will battle it out over the next couple of days in Cologne, Germany, the penultimate Intel Extreme Masters stop this season. Five have already qualified for the US$100,000 Winner-Takes-All World Championship in March this year, the rest have their eyes on first and second place in the hopes of winning an all expenses paid ticket […]

Vel'Koz revealed

Yesterday, Riot revealed their first champion release of the year: Vel'Koz. He will be the next champion to employ a theme we last saw with the release of Kha'Zix in September 2012: the Void. Remarkably, Vel'Koz is a ranged DPS mage carry. Since the beginning of 2012, Riot has seemed to stray away from the […]

The rise of Cloud 9 HyperX

Two days ago, Cloud 9 HyperX managed to sign the DotA 2 squad formerly known as Speed Gaming. It would be the fourth team to join the organisation in little more than a month's time. Let's take a closer look on Cloud 9's ventures. How it started Cloud 9 made its first entry into the […]

Who will step up in Poland and the UK?

This weekend saw the first Regional Finals taking place in France and the Nordic and with it the first two teams for the European Finals have been set. The fourth and final qualifiers in Poland and the CIS also took place and brought us the last two teams to complete the lineup of their Regional […]

The Final Eight

Eight teams have made it through the groupstage and are headed to the season finals in Cologne, Germany! Which team will be crowned champion of the EMS One? The EMS One started with more than 30 teams fighting it out in the cups to qualify for the groupstage. After four very competitive cups, sixteen teams […]

Tears and fears: a year of LCS

One year ago, the North American and European League Championship Series (NALCS and EULCS respectively) started their first split, marking the beginning of Riot Games' storming the eSports scene and creating a means for professional League of Legends teams to compete in financially secure circumstances. Looking back over the year, what have we seen and […]