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It’s that time again! With the International qualifiers complete, we thought we would take the chance to look at the state of Dota 2 for the month of May. This list is based entirely on pre-patch data, so you can look at it as a snapshot of the 6.77 era….
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The PKTV myth One of my most lingering memories in of all my years in competitive gaming took place in an IRC channel in 2005. A handful of dedicated Painkiller players (the CPL’s choice for their ill fated million dollar tournament series) were flooding into #CPL complaining to The CPL’s…
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Welcome back to another edition of the ESFI competitive tier list! For those following this series, yes, there was no tier list for March due to unforeseen circumstances. But for interested minds, I went back and calculated the rankings for March of 2013. The tournaments surveyed for March were the NA…
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March/April 2013 We’re back! After nine months without an updated hero tier list, we have returned. To give some perspective, our last tier list had Invoker and Broodmother listed as tier one heroes. This edition of the list comes at an interesting time in the Dota 2 metagame. The last…
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The Australian scene does not get a lot of recognition on a global level, so when this caster and his co-caster were in charge of the B-Stream, Australians were excited to see how they did. They did not disappoint despite casting into the early morning! Pastrytime and PapaSmithy are arguably…
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With so many people now in the running for the WCS Premier League, it becomes apparent that there’s no easy way to describe all the participants. What happens if an absolute nobody makes it in? What will we know about them? How can we prepare ourselves? In the spirit of…
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E-sports documentaries aren’t new to the e-sports industry. Last year gave us Liquid Rising (2012) directed by Michael Krukar. Still in development we have Star Nation by Justin Agnew and Sons of StarCraft by Jeff Alejos, projects which have been filming for close to two years now. So it’s not…
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The most recent Battle.net release allows for the greatest level of observer interface customization we’ve seen yet. With this new found power, tournaments organizers and streamers may be tempted to pack in game data and advertising, but if television is any indication, this would be the wrong course of action.
Perhaps instead of ‘boo for e-sports’, that title should read ‘boo, for e-sports’. Either way, I come to open discussions about the MLG crowd’s vocal participation Saturday night at the 2013 Winter Championships. What went down? If you didn’t catch it, or haven’t seen the opinions that were strewn across…
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ESFI’s Connie Lee presents an infographic that takes a look back on this past weekend’s League of Legends IEM World Championship; a tournament that saw CJ Entus Blaze take home $50,000. Statistics team: Connie Lee, Ray Palafox II, Ian Powers, Beth Sullivan
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Passion: the Fuel of Community Content is a short documentary style video produced by ESFI (E-sport Fans International). ESFI strives to produce quality journalistic video and written content. This segment, which features 100% ESFI footage, follows the growth of not only StarCraft 2, but e-sports as a whole throughout Wings…
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ESFI’s Thomas Shifrer interviews ESL Pro Gaming Director Michal “Carmac” Blicharz a few days before the start of the IEM 2012-2013 World Championship event, which is being held in Germany March 5-9th. Blicharz answers questions about a variety of topics, including expectations for Heart of the Swarm, memorable moments from…
DreamHack Summer 2013: StarDust, Alliance, NiP big winnersJune 15, 2013
GSTL: MVP_Super gets reverse triple-kill: “We will definitely enter the playoffs in first place”June 14, 2013
Dota 2 Competitive Hero Tier List – May 2013June 11, 2013Competitive League of Legends Champion Tier List: May 2013June 9, 2013
INnoVation sweeps sOs 4-0, claims WCS Season 1 championshipJune 9, 2013
Mvp defeats ForGG, Innovation up next: “If I go to the finals, I will show much better games than I show now”June 8, 2013
WCS: sOs gets to semis after sweeping Alicia: “I was lucky to win my mirror match today”June 8, 2013