Esports Nutshell News | April 7, 2016
11Esports Nutshell News everything in the world of Esports in a video nutshell:
Hungrybox defeats Mango to win his third consecutive Smash major at Pound 2016.
Optic Gaming defeats Rise Nation the NA Stage 1 Call of Duty World League.
Sharp retires from Team Kaliber Call of Duty
Naded joins Optic Halo.
Team Secret recruits Super Smash Bros player Silent Wolf.
Team YP disbands after failing to qualify for the MLG Columbus Major.
Jacob Wolf joins ESPN as a Senior Esports Writer.
Nexon America announces their MapleStory game’s tournament Maple Invitational.
Spark Jumper launches League of Gods Finals for their EndGods game with a $100k prize pool.
Project CARS E-sports championship announces their annual $22k prize pool for their Logitech G Championship Series & NVIDIA Challenger Series events.
Piranha Games launch their MechWarrior Online Esports tournament with a $100k prize pool + 50% of the money they make from their $10 in game purchase “Tournament Supporter Packs”
FaceIt partners with Twitch to create the Esports Championship Series providing a $3.5MM prize pool for Counter Strike.
The UK government backs the International EGames committee to run an Esports competition alongside the Olympics in Rio with medals sans cash prize...as of now.
Warner Brothers helps to post a $500k prize pool for their Mortal Kombat X game under the ESL Mortal Kombat X Pro League Season 3 & the ESL Challenger Cup.
Australian Twitch channel Spiral Media’s 6T4 partners with Faceit to launch 6T4Sports CS:GO Pro-Am for amateur players to compete to play alongside Team Immunity and Legacy Esports in their finals.
Legendary Studios and Universal Pictures launch the Dota 2 Esports tournament, Epicenter: Moscow, organized by ESforce Holding’s Epic Esports Events with a $500k prize pool at Crocus City Hall May 9-15. Fun financial fact Alisher Usmanov invested $100MM in ESforce Holding with previous investments including Facebook and Alibaba.
Excel sells their European Call of Duty World League team to French organization HyperGames
Colossi partners with Dreamhack to provide interactive entertainment between live matches.
Machinima announces their Esports daily show “Inside Esports” broadcasting online and on Verizion’s Go90 which will launch in May.
Valve teases their VR spectator mode for their Dota 2 game...it’s awesome I guess I have to buy a HTC Vive now.
YuuZoo Corp signs with Alibaba Sports Group to organize the AliSports World Electronic Sport Games and manage the Esports Clubs Competition Center for Alibaba in China.
Twitch and Vainglory developer Super Evil Megacorp sign a multimillion dollar three year deal to help build the franchise on Twitch’s platform including establishing the official Vainglory Championships.
Hitbox signs a two year deal with ESL for all their content and exclusive Portuguese and Russian broadcast rights for DreamHack. A similar deal was made last month between ESL & Azubu. Fun financial fact Wargaming.net invested $4MM last year in HitBox while placing Sean Lee on the board of directors.
YouTube Gaming launches in the Philippines.
Blizzard goes into Alpha testing for their in-game voice chat for battle.net.
The Trade Group signs on as DreamHack Austin’s general contractor and producer.
Japan Esports Association helps get Korean players Ki Hon Han Eternal & Sang Ho Yun Catch Japan’s first Category 3 entertainment visas for Esports also given for physical athletes.
Team Kaliber’s Canadian Call of Duty player Goonjar is not able to enter the US to play in Stage 1 of the Call of Duty World League North American Pro Division due to visa issues.
Kim Dotcom and Australian Call of Duty team Tainted Minds pronounce their love for eachother and Kim’s financial support for the team, “no you’re great, no you’re wonderful, stop it, stop it.”
Rocket League developer Psyonix partners with Rocket League Central, Electronic Sport League, and the American Video Game League to bring together a $30k cash and scholarship prize pool.
Newzoo reports Esports makes up 21.3% of Twitch’s audience and MOBA’s and First Person Shooters make up 85% of that audience.
Astralis releases a video of their emotional rollercoaster at MLG Columbus and John Mayer said- “There I just saw it a single tear on his cheek.”
UC Irvine with the help of Riot Games launch the first public university Esports scholarship program providing 10 scholarships at $5,500 each, hiring a part time coach, and a outfitting a 3,500 square foot facility with 80 PCs from iBuyPower.
The Esports community gods huddle together and said, “what we really need in the space is trash talk behind people’s back” and so the Esports gods said “let there be Esports Gossip Club” and it was so. And the gods saw that it was trash. Have a great weekend :)
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