Esports Nutshell News | December 3, 2015

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Published on December 4, 2015 1:32:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZC28TUkSn4

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League of Legends adds new loot and crafting system
Everyone plays music chairs! with Kang Chan-yong “Ambition”, Kwon Yeong-jae “Helper” & Jo Young-in “Core JJ” joining Samsung Galaxy. Kwon Bora Kim “Yellowstar” leaves Fnatic for Team SoloMid
NaJin may be looking to sell the organization and kills contracts for nine players and the coach, leaving Lee Ho-seong “Duke” and Yoon Wang-ho “Peanut” as the survivors
European LCS organization Elements disbands their team, puts their LCS spot up for bid and begin talks with potential buyers
Team Liquid's Diego Ruiz "Quas" is suspended indefinitely from Team Liquid after "an incident occurred”
12 year old Xiao Xin is hired by Panda TV making $4,700 a month live streaming
League of Legend’s Snowdown starts December 10th with a Snowball Fight game, Legend of the Poro King, Poro Toss, Icons, Wards, and six legacy skins
Australian Matthew Uebergang gives up on his dream of becoming a League of Legends athlete to play in the AFL
Aaron Bland "ChuChuz" playing for Oceania in the International LoL at the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne Australia gets embarrassed by his mom
Vici Gaming signs Ji-hoon Lee “Easyhoon” and drops Se-hyeong Cho “Mata”
Easyhoon opens up about being stuck in the shadow of Faker
Cloud9 disbands their Dota 2 team
The first Guild Wars 2 PvP Season commences
Panda Global Gaming signs Heroes of the Storm team Kappa Wolves
Starcaft’s Lee Young-ho “Flash” retires from an 8 year esports career at age 23
StarCraft’s Legacy of the Void sells a million copies in a day
Australian Esport betting company MeVu gears up to launch their betting platform in Australia and Oceania
Heroes of the Storm team Bob Ross Fan Club wins their third online tournament and is shopping for a sponsor
Fnatic beats Luminocity Gaming 2-1 in the FACEIT Season 3 CS:GO LAN Grand Finals
Fnatic beats Team Liquid 3-1 at Dreamhack Winter 2015 Heroes of the Storm in Jönköping, Sweden
Weston Dennis “Westballz’s” video shows off his six inputs per second gameplay in Smash
First Pro Gamer Jonathan Wendel “Fatal1ty” does an AMA and calls Esports “a Hustle in so many ways”
Dota 2 host Troels Nielsen “Synderen” returns to the player side on his new team Steak Gaming
Vainglory hits one million unique viewers in September Nvidia is riding the sponsorship wave with their Shield Tablet K1
NBA star Gordon Hayward continues to be an advocate for the world of Esports with his interview on IGN Esports Weekly
Steam controllers now have an opt in beta feature of Mouse Region allowing you to map the controller’s touchpad to a fixed region in the game that you can customize
After French Secretary of State Axelle Lemaire sings Esports’ praises, the Ministry of Sport still votes no for recognizing Esports as a real sport
Execration, TNC Pro Team, CDEC, & Invictus Gaming face off at the Dota 2 World Cyber Arena at the Ningxia International Hall in Yinchuan, China December 17 - 21 with a $500k prize pool
Blizzard puts $900k towards nine Hearthstone season championships spread throughout the year to increase fan engagement and increases their world championship prize pool at BlizzCon to $1MM
Steve Cronin & Rod Breslau suggest nootropics should not be mixed, adderall may give a short advantage but Esports is an endurance sport and the doping scandal was overblown
Emanuel Maiberg says how we all feel about adderall in Esports: there’s no drug in the world that can make me a better counter strike player
William Hjelte “Leffen” beats Zachary Cordoni “SFat” for $1k at DreamHack Winter
The eSports industry is closely watching the trial of DraftKings and Alphadraft in New York
Juan Debiedma “Hungrybox” beats Adam Lindgren “Armada” at DreamHack Smash Championship winning $10k and closure when he said quote “My biological dad recently passed away...he said I’ll never be the best...I hope he sees me now...It’s a lot of closure for me…”
EA’s push into Esports with their Madden competition is capped to the game’s 6MM players, they should do it with FIFA
The International Esports Federation World Championship December 2 - 5 will have 250 players from 250 countries at Nexon Arena in Seoul, South Korea competing in Hearthstone, Starcraft, and League of Legends. There will also be a panel discussion including Rita Subowo former member of the International Olympic Committee and Executive Board member of the Olympic Council of Asia on the future of Esports in the 2016 Asian Games, Asian Youth Games, and the Olympics
At Dreamhack Winter, Alliance Dota 2 player Jonathan Berg “Loda” tresspasses to confront Richard Lewis after a twitter spat and provokes Lewis to strangle him, cops show up, they sign a statement that “violence and harassment have no place in the gaming

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