Esports Nutshell News | March 17, 2016

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Published on March 17, 2016 8:28:03 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzxS7pfa6Y

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Esports Nutshell News, everything in the world of Esports in a video nutshell with Mark Register
15 year old Amnesiac beats Nostam at the Hearthstone Americas Winter Championship winning $25k and a seat at the Global Finals in November at BlizzCon
Nadeshot returns to Twitch after his MLG exclusivity deal ends
ViCi Gaming recruits Dota players Rotk & Cty
Columbia College Esports Program signs their first League of Legends player Connor Doyle
League of Legends player XiaoWeiXiao joins Oh My Dream
Gears of War 4 Beta starts April 18th with an Esports focused multiplayer mode
Ohio’s Miami University announces their varsity Esports program will start this fall
Blizzard announces a May 24 release date for Overwatch
Playstation announces their Virtual Reality headset price at $400 with an October release
Studio WildCard announces their multiplayer online survival arena game, Ark: Survival of the Fittest and their “Survivor League” with a $50k monthly prize pool
Microsoft is creating an Xbox Live Software Developer Kit allowing companies to organize events within their games through Xbox Live and will connect with Windows 10 machines as well. Faceit and ESL are partnering with Microsoft to use this for their tournaments
Brisk Mate sponsors Optic Gaming
Warcraft 3 gets its first patch in five years, Patch 1.27
Yahoo partners with the NHL to stream their games
Seth Schorr opens a dedicated Esports Lounge at the Downtown Grand in Las Vegas
Researchers from Denmark, Germany, and Sweden led by Tobias Mahlmann create an analytical model using real time stats to predict what will happen in Dota games.
European League of Legends team Inspire Esports fails to qualify for an LCS spot, all team members leave except Satorius for now
ForGG leaves Starcraft to start his mandatory military service in the South Korean army for 21 months
KontrolFreek announces the first College Esports Scholarship Program based on merit with $20k spread between 10 students
South African Esports organization Orena University League launches starting with a Dota 2 competition
Google’s AI beats Lee Se-dol at the Chinese board game Go and is on the prowl for what game they should learn next, I vote Contra but spoiler alert! Up up, down down, left right left right, B, A, Select Start you’re welcome google.
German Sports University Professor Ingo Froböse spends five years studying Esports athletes and finds the amount of cortisol, a steroid stress hormone, produced by an E athlete is the same as a race-car driver and an E athlete’s heart rate is the same as a marathon runner at 160 - 180 bpm. Ingo Froböse says if E athletes up their eating and exercise game and take breaks from playing to fully recuperate they can extend their careers up to 5 years. In a conversation with Colin Cowherd Ingo tells Colin - “Esports is Sports...it’s science.” Colin replies “What did you say? Knights of Columbus that hurts.”
Have a good weekend :)

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