Category: eSports News

The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #62

It’s time for another episode of the eSports bulletin for August 27th – September 6th. It was a massive catch-up episode that focused on the top headlines of the past week, plus a normal focus on September 6th. The next eSports bulletin is planned for tomorrow or the next day. Here’s what I talked about:

  1. Find all the past news at: http://www.spawnroom.com/news
  2. The story behind Steven “Destiny” Bonnell and his penis:http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/com…
  3. SHOUTOUT to RSS aggregator eSportsPress:http://esportspress.com/
  4. 2012 Global StarCraft Team League Season 3: http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/5582…
  5. Gamerland Challenge Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament: http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  6. Return to Castle Wolfenstein Anniversary Cup 2012 with WarWitch: http://www.crossfire.nu/news/7682/ret…
  7. ESL EPS CS:GO Open Qualifiers:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  8. theSGL pre-season CS:GO tournament:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  9. StarCraft 2 All-Kill and Dota 2 showmatch between Evil Geniuses (EG) and FNATIC: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewm…
  10. no1gaming Enemy Territory 3on3 one-day-cup:http://www.crossfire.nu/events/18/no1…
  11. The ESL Major Series Winter Season XI:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  12. Excello / ZOWIE present another Call of Duty 4 Challenge:http://www.tek-9.org/news/the_seventh…
  13. Stim to the Win by TaKeTV:http://www.fnatic.com/news/10067/naam…
  14. REQUESTED: Topanga A League update 1:http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/au…
  15. REQUESTED: Topanga A League update 2:http://shoryuken.com/2012/09/02/2nd-t…
  16. mTw pick up CS:GO, drop sraven and osirisbash:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  17. Epsilon e-Sports acquire Richard “shox” Papillon for CS:GO team: http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  18. Moscow 5 Dota 2 disband:http://www.joindota.com/en/news/4102-…
  19. Lincoln “fnx” Lau announces retirement, leaves playArt:http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/5582…
  20. Team Infused SC2 adds Julia “Ailuj” Childress: http://team-infused.net/index/news/vi…
  21. Infused adds ShootMania: Storm and Sens, caspa, and billz:http://team-infused.net/index/news/vi…
  22. Shin “Killer” Sang Ho post-Complexity update:http://esfiworld.com/news/killer-seek…
  23. WinFakt League of Legends find fifth with Simon “El Muppo” Näslund: http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  24. vVv Gaming Brazil replaces inFluxo Gaming: http://www.vvv-gaming.com/forum/topic…
  25. CyberGamer adds CS:GO:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  26. RUMOR: Riot demanding exclusivity in MOBA/ARTS:http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/18…
  27. ESFI mention possible eSports world record:http://esfiworld.com/feature/weekly-l…
  28. ESFI release SC2 Korean vs Non-Korean win rates:http://esfiworld.com/news/analysis-ko…
  29. SHOUTOUT: newly reformed TeamErroX:http://www.teamerrox.com/

The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #61

Finally another eSports bulletin! This one covers the weekend of August 24th-26th, 2012, but is slightly different than other episodes. Since I’m decently far behind because of a long week working another job, I went very fast and basically just announced headlines. Hopefully I’ll get caught up here shortly and resume the normal episode structure, but for the time being this episode covers these topics:

  1. DreamHon Bracketology Challenge
  2. SC2TV.ru Ritmix Russian StarCraft 2 League Season 2
  3. Curse Gaming and Team Dignitas disqualified from Summer Championship
  4. Battle at Ministry of Win has concluded
  5. More details for ClanBase EuroCup and OpenCup Fall 2012
  6. Artem “sLivko” Garavtsov left RoX.KIS for Virtus.pro
  7. Raphael “cogu” Camargo joins TargetDown
  8. Team Infused add Nathan “Lau” Lau, Victor “Znow” Armblad, and Tan “TanDongHo” Dong Ho
  9. AbsoluteLegends Alpha replaced by 4PL team MVP
  10. Rasta Gaming buys Reason Gaming
  11. It’s Gosu adds Michael “Perfect” Thompson
  12. mousesports beats World Elite for MUFC slot
  13. Maciej “Shushei” Ratuszniak leaves EloHell
  14. WinFakt signs MegashocK
  15. Team Acer LoL reforms with Thomas “Schabs” Vogel and Victor “Citizen Wayne” Toll
  16. AGE|Fanatiq alludes to retirement
  17. Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale release dates
  18. KeSPA out of GSL Season 4
  19. eSports Federation boycott OSL
  20. KeSPA and ESF recap
  21. ESEA launches in Frankfurt
  22. MLG attendees outraged over local paper
  23. A list of PubStomps for The International 2
  24. Quantic Gaming release TI2 Dota 2 video

Thanks for watching and sorry for being so lethargic! I’m just really tired. :(

The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #59

Welp today was a long day and I’m super tired, but I managed to get the bulletin wrapped up before heading off to meet some friends! This one covers August 22nd, 2012 and delves deep into some eSports drama, drops some updates about events and rosters (as usual), finds me butchering names (again as usual), and gives a shoutout for EventPotion.com:

1. UltraChenTV and iPlayWinner announce Aftershock for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and King of Fighters XIII
2. PGS OZONE Exponor CS 1.6 confirm USSR and WebOne
3. The Curse 2012 World Championship World of Warcraft Arena North America Invitational
4. Intel Extreme Masters Guangzhou, China European qualifiers
5. Call of Duy 4 players unite under CS:GO team koalasports
6. ENTiTY to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
7. Dan “apEX” Madesclaire joins Anexis eSports
8. mousesports Alexandru “ComeWithMe” Craciunescu replaced by Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi for The International 2
9. Liquid’HerO forfeits WCS Korea match for Major League Gaming
10. FNATIC add NA Dota 2 player Tim “PowerNet” Moon
11. mTw.NA lose League of Legends roster to Monomaniac e-Sports
12. Kasper “TheTess” Poulsen and Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen join Copenhagen Wolves LoL team
13. StarCraft 2 patch version 1.5.2 drops
14. Skullgirls publicly shames Emerson Ryan Litchfield for theft
15. ReveLAtions 2012 drama explained on the Tuesday Show
16. Twitter battles between chobopeon, var1ables, and Richard A Lewis from Cadred
17. Sam “Samsc2” Kasperek becomes official Complexity Academy caster
18. SHOUTOUT: EventPotion.com

Thanks for watching!!! Peace.

The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #54

It is time for another episode of the eSports bulletin, this time for August 16th, 2012. Yes, that’s right, a day behind schedule. After a long day working on eSports, it was 9PM and I was still left the bulletin. Thankfully I decided not to do it because it was crazy long and would have taken me at least a couple hours! Instead I finished up what I was doing and took a well deserved CS:GO/food break. Anyways, enough babbling, here are the topics covered:

  1. Don’t forget about Gamescom
  2. An Inferno Online Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament
  3. Ranked Gaming Client South-East Asia Tournament
  4. Fighting game tournament ReveLAtions 2012
  5. Fighting game tournament D-Town Beatdown
  6. Fighting game tournament Chicago 4 Ultimate
  7. StarCraft 2 player Lim “BoxeR” Yo-Hwan retires, becomes coach for SK Telecom T1
  8. Dominion Method Gaming acquire Mortal Kombat player Emmanuel “CD jr.” Brito
  9. Braxton “swag” Pierce disqualifies The Flaming Rainbows from ESWC LAN finals
  10. Source team HastaLaVista moves to CS:GO
  11. mousesports transition to GO
  12. Dota 2 team Mineski replace LGD in Razer Mini Madness
  13. Infused release SC2 players Ionita “DaZe” Alexandru and Chloe “Moomin” Chippendale
  14. Dota 2 patch
  15. Valve OKs 50 community items for Dota 2
  16. Riot announces Syndra, the Dark Sovereign after Rengar, the Pridestalker
  17. Valve announces Dota 2 documentary
  18. Blizzard sending beta invites for Heart of the Swarm soon
  19. Greg “WhatIsHip” Laird of GosuGamers launches “The Dota Daily”
  20. EVO 2012 and FGC featured on AT&T U-verse
  21. J3di, from zBlock, releases client settings for GO
  22. Definitive eSports and Robert “Pughy” Pugh relaunch Chobu2Gosu
  23. Plague Fest launching with CS:GO

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The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #53

The latest eSports bulletin is here, covering all the most relevant eSports news for August 15th, 2012! Actually today was pretty short since everyone is focused on Gamescom, but we still covered these awesome topics:

  1. A TECHLABS Cup for Counter-Strike 1.6
  2. One Day Cupski Season 11 registration is open
  3. StarCraft 2 players MVP and MC forfeit their WCS Korea matches
  4. Gamescom ESL.TV stream
  5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 unveiling
  6. Alexander “ZeroGravity” Kokhanovskyy says Na’Vi disbands its League of Legends team
  7. Mid August League of Legends patch notes
  8. The Spawn Room Blog relaunches

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