Esports Nutshell News | June 24, 2016
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Esports Top Stories 0:32
Team SoloMid and Dream Team duke it out over player Vincent Wang Biofrost
Jason Lake founder of Complexity Gaming writes an open letter to Valve founder Gabe Newell on behalf of Braxton Pierce who received a lifetime ban for match fixing.
Matthew DiPietro Senior Vice President of Marketing at Twitch announces Twitch is taking legal action against the top 7 most active sellers of viewbot services citing those companies are helping Twitch users break the Twitch terms of service.
YouTube updates their terms of service clarifying what Harassment & Cyberbullying means and if you do either of those things your account will be terminated.
Esports Analysis
4:37 - Andy Dinh & Keaton Cryer duke it out over their ownership of player Vincent Wang Biofrost & Jason Lake appeals to Gabe Newell to give lifetime banned player Braxton Pierce a pardon. Why are so many people going public with their disputes and why will Gabe Newell ignore Jason’s plea for Braxton’s pardon?
6:46 - Twitch sues the top seven companies selling bot services that are often used for harassing other broadcasters & YouTube updates their terms of service clarifying what Harassment & Cyberbullying is. How much of a dent will this make in the battle against online harassment?
8:05 - NBA Championship brought in a peak concurrent viewership of 44.5MM in the last ten minutes of the game, the peak concurrent viewership for last year’s League of Legends World Final SKT vs Koo Tigers brought in 14MM. A lot of viewership numbers get thrown around, where does Esports viewership really stand against traditional sports broadcasts?
9:42 - Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan gives an 11 minute overview of the changes they are making thanks to community feedback including being ranked using a 1 to 100 Skill Rating, extending season length from 1 to 3 months, new skins like golden weapons, and plans to make Sudden Death matches less frequent. What can Riot & Valve learn from this?
Esports News 11:13
Tencent buys up 84% of Supercell, Developer of Clash Royale & Clash of Clans for $8.6BB
Twitch removes all emotes that include the word butts, twitch user LIRIK had this to say.
Ed Boon co creator of Mortal Kombat announces their $50k prize pool for their EVO tournament
Midland University appoints Ben Nabity as their first Esports coach.
Stephen Ellis will work alongside Ginger Larson and will report to Guy Cross Facebook’s head of games partnerships for NA.
AlphaDraft announces their World Fantasy Esports Championship for League of Legends for the fall with a $50k prize pool.
Overwatch officially becomes the most played game in Korean PC Bangs beating out League of Legends.
Heroes of the Storm player Fury gets kicks off team Gale Force Esports for letting his relationship with his girlfriend interfere with his work.
Thiemo Bräutigam for Esports Observer reports Twice as many Russians watched ESL One Frankfurt Dota competition compared to the rest of the world.
The rapping community embraces Street Fighter with Lupe Fiasco leading a group of 9 rappers for The Next Level: Rappers vs Gamers tournament.
Bill Walton shows up at E3 for ESPN and gets naked all in the name of Esports.
Will Green from Esports Betting Report reports ELeague Counter Strike Skin betting hits $33MM in total bets over the first four weeks of the tournament.
AMC International Networks Iberia and Machinima launch their subscription video network “Many2Many Service” available for pay TV
Samuel Lingle for Daily Dot reports 17 year old Korean player Gegury is accused of cheating by two pros who said they would quit if they were wrong in their accusation, she plays on camera and shows how good she is, the two pros who made the accusations quit the scene.
Esports Highlights 14:05
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