Astralis have been on a roll lately. After starting out the year with an uncharacteristically disastrous performance at the ELEAGUE Boston Major in January, they rallied to take first-place at just over half of all tournaments they've competed in so far this year. Another win at this weekend's ESL Pro League Finals would help them cap off an already tremendous 2018 with not just another trophy but an additional $US1 ($1.39) million for being the esport's first Grand Slam Champions.
In Overwatch, as in soccer, there’s annual league play and international World Cups. This weekend belongs to the second. Before OWL’s second season gets underway, teams from around the world will represent their nations at BlizzCon in the Overwatch World Cup.
It’s one of the game’s most entertaining events for all the same reasons people love the soccer World Cup: it’s messy, unpredictable, and often full of “holy shit” moments that professionalised teams are trained to stomp out at all costs.
The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left.
One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to play the styles that most appeal to their personalities rather than what the current popular strategies demand.
Though spring began almost a month ago in Australia, it's autumn in the US, and this weekend the season brought with it the Hearthstone Fall Championship.
On August 26, a shooter at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida opened fire at the event, wounding 11 people and killing two, Taylor Robertson, 29, and Elijah Clayton, 22. This weekend, the organisers of Muthead, an independent Madden league, are holding a charity tournament to raise money for and honour the victims of the mass shooting.
One of League of Legends’ biggest stars will have a chance to earn his fifth championship title at this weekend’s North American summer finals — and possibly cement his legacy as the continent’s best player of all time.
The three-day finals for Broadcaster Royale, a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tournament featuring 80 duo teams of streamers from around the world, unfolds this weekend at PAX West’s Paramount Theatre. The matches started today at 4AM AEST, streaming on the Broadcaster Royale Twitch channel and also on each competitor’s individual Twitch channel.
The International 2018 ends tomorrow. By day’s end, over $US25 million ($34 million) will be divided up among 18 teams from around the world with the lion’s share, $US11.1 million ($15 million), going to first place. Whoever that turns out to be at this point, though, will be a team almost nobody saw coming.
The tournament for Valve’s action strategy game Dota 2 saw favourites crushed and underdogs rise up in the first day of matches, and the shocking upsets haven’t stopped since.
Stay inside, turn on the heater, and watch gamers pwn one another to your heart’s content over the weekend, because there are a crap ton of high profile esports tournaments going on.
It’s a cold enough winter to hibernate here in video game land, but esports does not rest. This weekend brings us a packed lineup of Smash, League, Heroes and Fortnite, as well as multiple PUBG and Rocket League tournaments.
With the Overwatch League’s inaugural season firmly in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to move on to the fighting game world. This weekend’s Evo is the biggest tournament of the year, starring street fighters, smash brothers (and sisters), and a crap ton of Gokus.
The inaugural season of the Overwatch League comes to a close this weekend. It’s been a long, winding, and at times downright weird road to the finals which now see two underdog teams face off for cash and glory.
Regional championships for the high-octane Rocket League kick off in earnest this weekend.
It's the start of a new season for the Street Fighter V pro tour.
The biggest names in esports are in Poland this weekend for, among other things, the biggest PUBG tournament yet held.
It's Labour Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer, which means it's also time for the League summer season to draw to a close.
With some of the winter's biggest tournaments behind us, things slowed down this weekend. But blessed with an SC2 tournament and another esports World Cup, as well as a tone of fighting game tournaments, there was still plenty to watch.
With Evo now in the rear-view mirror, the focus this weekend shifts to the Poland for a major Counter-Strike tournament and Atlanta for the latest DreamHack LAN.
Evo 2017 hasn't even started, DreamHack Atlanta is weeks away, Dota 2's TI7 is next month, and this weekend was still packed with esports.
With the Dota 2 TI7 qualifiers behind us and ESL One Cologne yet to begin, this weekend belongs to some of pro gaming's other scenes. Most notably Pokemon with the North American Championships pitting the best trainers across the continent against each other. Who's ready for the parade of Arcanine?
