The ultimate objective in Dota 2 is to destroy your enemy's ancient, the massive structure at the heart of their base. Do that and you win. When Evil Geniuses went on a potentially game-ending push into Fnatic's base today, Jacky "EternalEnvy" Mao of Fnatic responded by going straight for the game-winner.
The 2018 League Championship series spring split comes to a close today. In Europe, the grand finals hosted Fnatic and G2. It was the former who put on a convincing display, cruising to a 3-0 win and putting on one of the better showings of any League of Legends finals in recent memory.
In May of last year, the first season of the esports reality show Gamerz promised to award a six-month professional contract to five up-and-coming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players. The show, hosted by Gamingzone Entertainment in Sweden, filmed over the course of three weeks. It broadcasted live daily episodes featuring 12 contestants living together in a gaming house, facing off in drills and challenges that resulted in elimination for the losers. Think Big Brother, except it's live, and the top prize is a pro gaming contract for the last five standing.
After qualifying for a Dota 2 major, international esports team Fnatic suddenly dumped their offlane player Khoo "Ohaiyo" Chong Xin for Saahil "Universe" Arora, reportedly during a pizza dinner.
In an article titled "Are eSports Going To Replace The Beautiful Game?" British GQ contributor Andy Mitten spins a yarn about going somewhere where there are no Manchester United fans.
Where are all the sports-hungry young men, he wonders? This is where the esports hook comes in, a full twelve paragraphs after the article has begun.
Between the quiet keys and modest decoration, it's hard to tell the Rush G1 Silent is the product of one the world's biggest esports organisations. Perhaps we can fix that.
This weekend marked the kickoff of the League Championship Series' spring split playoffs, and in the European region, top team H2K finally met its match against a revitalized Fnatic.
In what will comfortably be one of the stranger stories this week, there's a report floating around that Manchester United -- yes, the Premier League club -- has got their eye on esports. Specifically Overwatch.
By the time the MLG Counter-Strike Major ended on Sunday with a lopsided Luminosity victory over Na'Vi, a long period of unbreakable European Counter-Strike supremacy had ended alongside it.
Fnatic are the greatest Counter-Strike team in the world right now. Just look at this crushing defeat they inflicted on Astralis in their final match today at the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational.
Briefly: Speaking of dramatic shake-ups in League of Legends eSports, top European player Yellowstar just said he's leaving Fnatic to go play in another region. The entire EU region is susceptible to a talent-drain this year as investment in eSports increases in the US and China and teams there offer higher salaries.
Briefly: Europe's best League of Legends team just lost two of its star players. This morning Fnatic announced that Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon and Kim "Reignover" Yeu-jin, the team's top laner and jungler, are both leaving for "career opportunities in another region." No word on what region that is yet.
Europe's Fnatic and Origen have been two of the very best League of Legends teams at the World Championships this year, so fans went into this weekend with high expectations for their semifinals games. Neither team managed to live up to them, as both went 0-3 in their matches against Korean rivals.
We've shown you a lot of great plays from the League of Legends World Championship games this month. There are certainly a lot of them. But what about the not great ones? Witness, my friends, the glory of professional eSports stars making the same clumsy mistakes the rest of us do.
The second League of Legends World Championship game between European team Fnatic and Chinese challenger EDG was put on hold today due to an issue with one of the player’s “Q” keys. After determining it was a “game altering bug,” Riot decided to start from scratch.
Top European League of Legends team Fnatic crushed its Chinese opponent Edward Gaming (EDG) today in the game's World Championship quarterfinals match-up. This brought China's hopes of making it to the end of the 2015 Worlds tournament to a sharp and sudden close. GG, China.
The Daily Dot revealed yesterday that rockstar Swedish League of Legends player Martin "Rekkles" Larsson is joining the European pro team Fnatic. Transers happen all the time in eSports, of course. What made this one interesting was that Rekkles had just left Fnatic last November. The prodigal son returns!
