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Life after Heroes esports: independent pro league sign-ups start tomorrow
Less than a month after Activision Blizzard announced they will no longer be supporting the competitive Heroes of the Storm scene, the first replacement professional league will begin signups starting tomorrow. Heroes Lounge, one of the largest Heroes of the Storm amateur sites in the world, has announced that their pro league, Division S, has crowd-funded over $13,700 within the last few weeks in an attempt to create an appealing enough format where former professional players and up-and-comers can showcase their play for cash prizes. Signing up to join the league is a fairly simple process, according to Heroes Lounge.
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Griffin Renews Their Contracts with All of Their Players for 3 More Years
Griffin made an official announcement via their official Twitter account that they have renewed their contracts with all of their players on their roster for three more years. This means that all Griffin players -- Sword, Tarzan, Chovy, Viper, Kabbie, and Lehends -- will be playing for the team until 2021. Griffin, after getting promoted to the LCK in the 2018 Summer Promotion, delivered great team performance during the Summer Season. In such a short period of time, they have improved to a point where they defeated top LCK teams, placing 2nd in the Summer Playoffs and 3rd in the Korea Regional Finals. As the League of Legends fans were exhilarated to follow the rise of this new LCK team in 2018, this announcement will be great news for the Griffin fans.
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EU Nexus Contest launches tomorrow, community supported
Once the Heroes of the Storm World Championship concluded at BlizzCon in November, Mandon “Dittri0” Florent went to work creating his own tournament to supersede the Nexus Games event that weren’t returning in 2019. The appeal of the Nexus Games in the past was that it took place during the competitive offseason and pitted amateur teams within the same region against one another for pride and a cash prize. He took to Twitter to seek help from the general population as creating a tournament of this size is not a task he wanted to take on alone and, to his surprise, help arrived. One of those individuals, Arnaud "Ouille" Pontonnier, contributed half of the $2,000 initial prize pool and has worked with Dittri0 to acquire additional funding, a sponsor and has helped overall to organize the event. Currently, the event, which begins tomorrow, has accrued a prize pool over $2500 and has secured a partnership with Razer headsets to be given away to the winners.
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[Episode 1] 2019 LCK Spring Profile Photo Shoot - Griffin, Kingzone Dragon X, SANDBOX Gaming, and Hanwha Life esports
After the recent end to the Kespa Cup, new teams and players will be joining all of us at the 2019 LCK Spring Korea next week. The first split is always an important one. With the upcoming Spring Spli
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Harrisburg University Storm Welcomes Professional Overwatch Player to Esports Coaching Staff
The following is the full text of Harrisburg University's 2018/01/03 press release. Harrisburg University Storm Welcomes Professional Overwatch Player to Esports Coaching Staff Gramano brings three years of professional experience to collegiate esports team on the rise Harrisburg, Pa., USA, (January 4, 2019) — Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) has made its mark on the esports landscape, and with the addition of a world-ranked Overwatch gamer to its coaching staff, is positioned to take on 2019 with even more vigor. As many professional esports athletes make the transition to coaching, HU saw an opportunity to invest in its team yet again. The Storm has welcomed Giuseppe “Joemeister” Gramano, a former professional Overwatch player with the Philadelphia Fusion and competitor for Team Canada in the Overwatch World Championship in 2017.
