Esports Nutshell News | June 17, 2016
13Esports in a Nutshell Weekly having fun with the world of Esports with Mark Register & Brian DiBiagio
Top Stories 0:36
CSGO Diamonds & Moe have a falling out over $26k & cheating
Electronic Arts lays out their 3 year Esports plan
Esports News 4:23
Cloud9 shuts down their Heroes of the Storm division.
The latest Overwatch patch nerfs McCree
Splyce launches their Overwatch division signing team “Fine, I’ll go McCree”
DC Comics fighting game sequel Injustice 2 is shown off in their new trailer.
XBox announces XBox Arena
OG wins Valve’s Dota Manila Major
Esports Observer appoints Chris Hana as their new CEO and analytics page.
Lupe Fiasco hints at competing against Zero in Smash 4 using Street Fighter 5 character Ryu at EVO in July.
In Korean PC Bangs, League of Legends takes up 29% of all hours played and Overwatch gobbles up 24%.
ESPN2 will air the finale of Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL 16 Championship June 14
Gamurs acquires Esportspedia and relaunches the site as EsportsWikis
ESL announces their Overwatch Atlantic Showdown Tournament with a $100,000 prize pool
IceFrog continues to orchestrate his organized chaotic masterpiece in Dota patch 6.88
Team Secret & Evil Geniuses don’t make the cut for The International 6 Invite
A Danish man scams two buyers of Counter Strike Skins and goes to jail for 30 days for his crimes.
Australian physicists set up an AI machine that recreates Nobel Winning physics experiment - the creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
GINX Esports TV joins the Sky platform June 23
Football club Manchester United makes an offer for a European Overwatch team and battle Fnatic
Team YP acquires an all woman League of Legends team
Atlantic City’s Revel Casino opens their Esports Lounge.
Quake Champions is announced
Blizzard explains if you are a leaver, aka your percentage of quitting before a game is over, is above a certain threshold you will get a 75% reduction in Experience gain until you remedy the situation.
In the last 10 months on Twitch, Esport Tournaments and their rebroadcasts have totaled 803MM hours of watch time.
Gamer Sensei gets a seed investment led by Boston Seed Capital and Accomplice for $2.3MM
Esports Analysis
11:33 - Will Green at Esports Betting Report reports Counter Strike Gambling Site CSGO Diamonds provides player turned Turner ELeague Caster & Echo Fox Co-Owner Mohamed Assad aka Moe with the outcomes of virtual rolls so he can win on camera. What really happened in this messy situation?
13:13 - Gamurs acquires Esportspedia and relaunches the site as EsportsWikis and dramatic rumours continue to surround Azubu. So what’s up with Azubu?
14:06 - Australian physicists set up an AI machine that recreates Nobel Winning physics experiment - the creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is gas cooled down to 1 microkelvin, a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, from scratch in under an hour. When will AI be able to learn how to play Esports games and school us all?
15:26 - Splyce starts an Overwatch division, Football club Manchester United bids on an Overwatch team, Overwatch announces their $100,000 prize pool tournament - Overwatch Atlantic Showdown Tournament, and Cloud9 shuts down their Heroes of the Storm division. Is it safe to say Overwatch is taking off and Heroes of the Storm is on the steady decline?
Esports Highlights
League of Legends - 16:49 - EU LCS Summer Split Fnatic v Unicorns of Love
Overwatch - 20:53 - OWKings v ANOX - Go4Overwatch Pro Play
Dota - 22:58 - Liquid vs OG 4 - Manila Major 2016
Hearthstone - 27:18 - ThijsNL vs Iner - Hearthstone Spring Championship Europe 2016 Grand Finals
Counter Strike - 31:00 - Renegades vs FlipSid3 - ESL One Cologne 2016 Offline Qualifier
Mortal Kombat - 32:41 - SonicFox vs Foxy Grampa - ESL Pro League Season 3 Grand Finals
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