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 12/12/16
All-Star Barcelona 2016
The All-Star Event is held by Riot Games every year somewhere around the world. As opposed to Worlds, the All-Star event is not meant to be competitive but has regional matches, fun game modes, and a 1v1 tournament. This year the games took place in Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona from December 8-11th. The players were divided into two teams: Team Fire, which included the LCK, NA LCS, and IWC All-Stars; and Team Ice, which includes EU LCS, LMS, and LPL All-Stars. The Fun Game Modes included Marksmen, Poro King, One for All, Assassins, Tandem, and All-Stars.
The tournament ended with Team Ice being victorious 1100 over Team Fire's 850. This victory can be attributed to how the LMS region has been moved to Team Ice making the IWC team in Team Fire. As a result, Team Fire did not get as many points in the Regional Matches. Furthermore, Team Ice did extremely well in the 1v1 tournament giving them 400 points more than Team Fire.
Mata vs Maple 1v1 Finish and Acting Skills
RATATATA
xPeke Double Kill on Garen
Time to Carry
2017 시즌 런칭 영상: It's Time To Carry
Mata vs Faker 1v1
Soaz vs Smeb 1v1
Impact vs Mouse 1v1
Impact vs Mouse 1vs1 /All-Stars
xPeke coming from behind
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Esports Championship Series Season 2
The ECS, or Esports Championship Series, has finished its second season. Ten teams from both Europe and North America were in a round robin and played against each other in two best-of-one series. The regional stage lasted from October 7th to November 13th. The top four teams advanced to the Season 2 Finals while the bottom two teams were relegated to the Season 3 Promotion.
The Season Two Finals took place this past week from December 9-11th at the Anaheim Arena in California. As the largest CS:GO event ever in Southern California, the top four teams from NA and EU competed for over $750,000.
Here's how the finals went:
The group stage finished with Astralis and Optic finishing out of Group A and Team EnVyUs and SK Gaming finishing out of Group B. From there, Astralis was able to 2-0 SK Gaming in the Semifinals and 2-0 OpTic Gaming in the Finals to win $250,000 USD
dev1ce double knife
DISGUSTING One Deag by Mixwell
kio 1v4 clutch
Fer with the speedhacks
FOX AWP anti-eco 4k w/ collat
VAC FLY Insane B Site Hold with AWP
NAF Sneaky 3k Entry
Mixwell with the Kobe nade
Dota 2
Dota2 Professional League Season 2
The Dota2 Professional League is China's first large-scale individual eSports league. There are two leagues: the Top League and Secondary League, with ten teams in each. Each team plays in a best-of-two Round Robin. With a prize pool of $900,000 USD, the tournament runs from September 19th to December 31st.
Here are the standings for the Top League:
Here are the standings for the Secondary League:
The Boston Major 2016
As the first Major of the 2016-2017 season, The Boston Major featured sixteen participating teams and, for the first time, a single elimination bracket based on group stage performance. With $3,000,000 USD on the line, the group stage led to the main event last week from December 7-10th.
Here are the Group Stage and Main Event results:
As you can see, OG was able to win the championship by beating Ad Finem in the Finals 3-1. With this win, OG has won $1,000,000 USD and their third Major title.
ODPixeL: wuUAAAHHHAA
Zai's Ultimate Sacrifice
Zai's Ultimate Sacrifice
Madara on the morphing, Newbee dumbfounded
The Major League Gaming Vegas 2016 tournament takes place in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Going from December 16-18, eight teams are competing for a sweet $100,000 USD prizepool in a Group Stage and single elimination Playoff.
Here are the groups:
Intel Extreme Masters Season XI Gyeonggi
The Intel Extreme Masters Season XI Gyeonggi is a tournament part of a chain of tournaments leading up to the annual world championship in Katowice. The tournament takes place in Gyeonggi, South Korea From December 16-18. Six teams are competing for a $100,000 USD prizepool. Here is how the bracket is set up:
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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.