Esports Nutshell News | January 14, 2016

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Published on January 15, 2016 12:48:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-60u72fc8

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Epsilon Esports wins $500k at the Smite World Championship 2016
Team Celestial wins the $150k Chinese Hearthstone Team Story Cup
Esport Organization Titan shuts down
Vulcun lays off 14 of their 55 staff
Jamie Gallagher “Sheep” retires
Robin Stahmer “GMX” retires
Coach Kublai Barlas “Kubz” joins Huma
Coach Mathieu Quiquerez “Maniac” joins EnvyUs CS:GO
Jake Yip “Stewie2k” joins Cloud9 CS:GO
Optic Gaming signs their first CS:GO team from the old Conquest roster
Besiktas Istanbul drops their League of Legends team, so the players rebrand themselves as Supermassive, to target their key demographic, men with oversized trucks
24/7 Esports recruits former Skyred team members in December only to cut them in January due to allegations of match fixing in 2015
Stacey Sher producer for Tarantino, Stone, and Soderbergh, joins Activision Blizzard Studios as co-president working with Nick van Dyk from Disney who worked on the acquisitions to Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm
At CES, Turner with FACEIT & WME/IMG streamed their Eleague CS:GO teaser with 60k concurrent viewers on Twitch gearing up for their televised launch of ELeague later this year, Optic Gaming took 1st place and $35k
Battlefy gets hacked and 89k users get their personal information released
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StarLadder i-League Star Series, League Championship Series EU, NA, and Korea, Vainglory Winter Season Qualifier, and Call of Duty World League Pro Division kick off their seasons and Wargaming.net League resumes
ZOWIE becomes Dreamhack’s title sponsor for 2016
Instant Esports partners with Cloud9 & Team Liquid
Optic Gaming signs a $100k or more book deal with Harper Collins
Vainglory releases a new hero called Reim and three new skins
We find out Mark Cuban invested in Virtuix maker of the omni directional VR treadmill harness
Baskonia Atlantis is renamed to Baskonia Esports with continued sponsorship from Mars Gaming
Nintendo partners with Genesis 3 for their Super Smash Brothers tournaments this weekend in San Jose with a $12k prize pool
Microsoft Xbox announces their second European FIFA Play Like a Legend Championship sponsored by Gfinity with a prize pool of $29k starting February
ESL Masters Barcelona presented by Mobile World Congress at the Fira Barcelona Montjuic announces their February 19 - 21 event with an $80k prize pool
Garnes Videregående Skole a Norwegian public high school adds Dota 2, League of Legends, and CS:GO into their curriculum with the hopes of creating a competitive team
Sony partners with Cineplex who bought Esport competition company World Gaming last year for $10MM to produce a month long Call of Duty Black Ops III competition starting January 16 for a $35k prize pool. Tickets for the 24 theaters showing the matches are $9.50 but if you can’t make the final watch the broadcast on Twitch March 6th “eh?” said the obnoxious American
ESPN launches their Esports division, good luck guys, with enough hard work there’s a chance you may become the “ESPN of Esports”
Enjoy your weekend :)

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