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 01/09/17
The different leagues around the world are currently on break until the third week of January with the LCK starting on January 17th and the NA and EU LCS starting that weekend.
Faker Ekko vs BDD Zed
페이커 에코 VS 비디디 제드 / Faker Ekko VS BDD Zed
Faker bodying those fools
Level 1 Pentakill
Level 1 Pentakill XD
Liquid LoL The Return
Yorick 1v5
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
ELEAGUE Major 2017 - Qualifier
The ELEAGUE Major is a Premier Tournament featuring 16 teams and a $1,000,000 USD prize pool. Last week the offline qualifiers finished where 16 teams competed for eight spots in a swiss tournament.
To qualify for the main tournament, the eight teams with positive scores (3-2 or better) will advance. Here are the results:
The main tournament is from January 22-29th in Atlanta, Georgia. With a $1,000,000 USD prize pool on the line, sixteen teams will be playing in this first Major of the year.
DreamHack Leipzig 2017
Part of the DreamHack ZOWIE Open, the DreamHack Leipzig 2017 is a Premier tournament featuring eight teams competing for a $100,000 USD prize pool. Going from January 13-15th, the tournament takes place in Leipzig, Germany, and features a Group Stage in a double elimination group format and a single elimination Playoffs. The participants have yet to be announced.
Unbelievable F0rest clutch
Bug gives away Shox's position
Bug gives away Shox's position
tarik mvp
JW Funny VAC
Autimatic cheeky defuse
Autimatic cheeky defuse
Dota 2
ESL One Genting 2017
ESL One Genting 2017 is the first Dota 2 ESL One Tournament of 2017 at Genting Highlands, Malaysia. With a $250,000 USD prize pool, eight teams competed from January 6-8th.
Here are the results:
Digital Chaos took their group and was able to beat Virtus.pro 2-0 to make it to the finals. In the finals, Digital Chaos and Newbee went to the full five games with Digitas Chaos winning the decisive game and taking home $125,000 USD.
DC Pudge and Omni - The Great Escape
"Let's not fuck up"
Wings Gaming PogChamp Riki Body Blocking
The Overwatch Winter Premier is a Blizzard tournament that features eight teams. These eight teams will play for a $100,000 USD prize pool from January 3-31. After a round robin, the top six teams advance to play another round robin where the top four of these teams will go to the offline finals.
Here are the results so far:
Immortals vs Liquid
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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.