Esports Nutshell News | March 10, 2016

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Published on March 10, 2016 10:25:50 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tC_Ob5TqlU

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European Dota 2 Team Secret wins the Shanghai Dota Master and $1.1MM.
TheAnonAlly wins first place and $20k at the Cineplex Call of Duty: Black Ops III tournament.
In ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters at Katowice, Fnatic beats Luminosity Gaming to win the Counter Strike division and $104k, SK Telecom T1 beats Fnatic to win the League of Legends division and $50k, Polt beats Snute to win the Starcraft division and $35k, and akaWonder beats SilverName to win the Hearthstone division and $5k.
Jeyo leaves Team Archon.
Voyboy joins Luminosity as a streamer.
EnVyUs’ Counter Strike division removes Kioshima and replaces him with the Devil.
Firebat joins Cloud9’s Hearthstone team.
EDward Gaming launches their own Counter Strike team.
Team Spirit parts ways with Dota players Ramzes666 & Afterlife.
TSM acquires Alliance’s Vainglory roster.
Cloud9 acquires Overwatch team Google Me.
North American Dota team Team Leviathan disbands, the players are looking for a team, while they do for just two dollars a day you can change a young Esports free agent’s life, by providing low latency monitors and wrist guards.
Renegades and Team Dragon Knights make player swaps with Seraph and Ninja joining Renegades, Flaresz and Alex Ich joining Dragon Knights.
EHome recruit Fenrir & iceiceice. ice explained the difference between him and ice ice baby was “their base line goes ding... and mine goes ding…”
Blizzard announces their Hearthstone expansion March 11th.
The Pokken tournament announces a $100,000 prize pool for their tournament starting March 18.
Bethesda Softworks announce their reboot of Doom with their Beta release March 31.
Esports Industry Awards 2016 will broadcast in November with sponsor Gfinity.
Stunlock Studios, creators of Bloodline Champions, release BattleRite into Beta.
Marvel Games announces their “Women of Power Initiative” to bring new characters and content to all their platforms throughout the month of March.
Sky broadcasts highlights from Intel Extreme Masters Katowice.
Canada’s TSN launches their Esports division.
Riot releases their new champion Aurelion Sol the star forger.
Riot closes their Brighton office and offers employees the opportunity to move to their Dublin office.
ESL signs a multi year agreement with Twitch & Yahoo to broadcast their live events.
Riot bans ROX Tigers’s substitute player Sylph from competitive League of Legends play until February 2017 for using an unauthorized program to level up his account.
Riot Games gives Team Huma owner Behdad Jaafarian a warning for missing payments to staff, Jaafarian says he will write a letter divesting his ownership of his team after this split.
Valve hires Professional Gamer’s League to run their upcoming Manila Major Dota tournament hoping their experience running 8 DreamHack events over 5 years will yield better results than their Shanghai disaster.
Samuel Lingle from the Daily Dot writes a great article about the history of Esports and Television a great quote: “Investing in esports may be a way to stave off television’s slow death, attracting viewers who may have previously dismissed the medium.”
Riot Games acquires Radiant games, Radiant says they will continue development of Stonehearth, and shut down their Rising Thunder servers. Temperatures rose to tropic levels around the server shutdown. When asked about their Rising Tropic Thunder servers and if they enjoyed being Riot people, they replied, what do you mean Riot people?
Esports Observer delves into the French Parliament’s passing of Loi pour une République Numérique or in my American tongue the Numeric Law, and the changes still being made to it before it goes before the Senate. What gets decided and passed into law will be the reference point for all other governments when deciding the legal definition of Esports, the status of pro players, Esports organizations, and broadcasting rights. “Esports moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile at French Legislation you could miss it.” Have a great weekend :)

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