Esports Nutshell News | January 7, 2016

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Published on January 7, 2016 9:39:59 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQS9b8JI4A8

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SKLeague 2016 registration opens
SMITE World Championship 2016 kicks off January 7th in Atlanta for a $1MM prize pool
After disbanding their team in 2014 Finnish organization ENCE is relaunching their Counter Strike Go team
Razer comes out with Razer Stargazer webcam, very similar to a Kinect, and can remove your background without a green screen
University League of Legends Campus Series launches an 18 match season from January to March broadcasting after LCS matches
Vulcun no longer offers cash fantasy contests due to the current US legal landscape but they get to switch over to their virtual “I love gold” currency
DreamHack, recently bought by Modern Times Group, announces their first $250k CS:GO Masters Tournament in April in Malmö, Sweden
Fnatic’s Overwatch team leaves to create their own team as Team “Reunited and it feels so good, there’s one perfect fit, this one is it, we both are so excited ‘cause we’re reunited”
Allen Lee CEO of Battletimes hosted the first virtual reality Esports competition: World Virtual Reality Arena 2015 January 1st playing 1st person shooter game Virtual Warfare with team Estonia winning first place and $10k
Virtuix holds the second ever multiplayer VR Esports tournament at CES with their Omni directional VR treadmill for their game Omni Arena
Valve moves from indefinite to permanent bans for the players involved in match fixing last year and moving forward. Fans have started a petition to reverse the ban. At the cost of ending these players’ careers they are ensuring every player from now on will think about Valve’s decision if they are faced with a match fixing decision
Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 charity event January 3 - 10 pushes all their donations to Prevent Cancer Foundation raising $3MM in previous years for PCF, and $1MM for other organizations like CARE International, Organization for Autism Research, and Doctors without Borders. It’s nice to know while money is being thrown around in Esports, the Speed Runners are pushing the philanthropic envelope
Valve is DDoS attacked 77k times a month but Christmas Day two of those attacks broke through causing a caching error mixing up account requests for 90 minutes before they shut down and cleared the cache. 34k customers got caught in the mix where their billing address and last two digits of their credit card were available to see but only if they accessed their personal info in that 90 minute window. Even if that happened, everything is going to be ok.
MLG says they will continue to run all their competitions and broadcasts as planned. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the MLG acquisition gets them closer to their plans of creating the ESPN of Esports which includes distributing over TV, cable, and satellite. Stop. ESPN is building that right now, and TV is moving to IP. You go make something unique for Esports and stop saying you want to be like ESPN because you’ll fall short, be like the Activision of Esports. Great moments are born from great opportunity, and that’s what have here Bobby, tonight you are the greatest Esports CEO in the world and you were meant to be here tonight, this is your time, their time is done, it’s over, I’m sick and tired of hearing what a great team ESPN has, screw em, this is your time, no go out there and take it.

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