Esports Nutshell News | January 28, 2016

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Published on January 28, 2016 10:52:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNdxeugfYk

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ESL partners with Bigben Interactive and Kylotonn Games to kick off the first World Rally Championship Esports series launching at Rallye Monte-Carlo running alongside the physical WRC season
Crisis Action a mobile Esport game begins beta testing
South African company Telkom renames it’s Do Gaming League to Digital Gaming League raises the prize pool to $61k and adds tournaments
South African Esports organization White Rabbit Gaming gets ASUS as a sponsor
UCLA’s Counter Strike team becomes an official university club alongside the UCLA League of Legends club
SuperData estimates in 2015 the top grossing games were Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for console at $355M, League of Legends for PC at $1.6BB, Clash of Clans for Mobile at $1.3BB, And somehow World of Warcraft is still pulling in an estimated $800MM stella didn’t get her groove back, stella never lost that grove
Chrome extention Plays.tv launches allowing fans to clip twitch streams into VOD highlights while the content creators retain ownership over the clips
Team Fortress 2 launches their competitive Beta Group on Steam
Pokemon announces their Pokken Tournament Championship Series will kick off in July at EVO & the Pokemon National Championship culminating at the Pokken World Championship in San Francisco later this year
Blizzard works with ESPN to launch Heroes of the Dorm season 2 March 19th with a $500k tuition prize pool
Valve releases Battle Pass 2016 including three winter season quests, a wagering feature, new terrain, new items, and the compendium, which will help fund the March Shanghai Major
Dan Gilbert pools together $35MM with Bruin Sports Capital and WPP to invest in early stage tech and media startups with a focus on sports
Robin wins the Hearthstone StarLadder i-League LAN finals and $20k
Immortals continue to run undefeated in NA LCS

NRG starts a Counter Strike team with Gob B, Legija, Just9n, Silent3m^v^, and ptr
FaZe Clan acquires G2 Esports Counter Strike team garnering a $700k buyout making G2 Esports owner Carlos Rodriguez a happy man
UK based Esports tournament management and matchmaking service FaceIt raises $15MM in a series A round with Anthos Capital, Index Ventures, and United Ventures opening up an office in LA
Echo Fox starts a Counter Strike division with moE, SGares, TCK, A2Z, and RYX

Multiple LCS teams reported to Riot that Echo Fox had foreign players that should not be eligible to play due to their visa status so Riot announced a mandatory submission of full work eligibility documents for all players and have it in by January 19th causing Echo Fox to forfeit their week 2 match against NRG
Unicorn’s Diamondprox is no longer EU LCS eligible due to Germany refusing him a visa, Djoko is recruited to replace him
Roccat’s Edward is replaced with Extinkt due to visa “issues”
French bill projet de loi numérique d’Axelle Lemaire is posed to pass limiting prize pools for esports games that are not on an approved government list and will require drug testing procedures
That’s it enjoy your weekend :)

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