Esports Nutshell News | November 27, 2015

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Published on November 28, 2015 1:08:02 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqUGfGSZHgc

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Smite wraps up their Regional tournaments Sunday with Cloud9 winning the North American league and Fnatic taking the European title
Nielsen reports that brands are engaging with US Esport viewers at a 53% efficacy rate, not bad for the most elusive demographic
Electronic Arts’s CFO Blake Jorgensen says please adopt Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront into the Esports world!
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We learned Zoomin.TV Multi Channel Network is another thing Modern Times Group owns
Hi-Rez opens their free to play shooter game Paladins to a closed beta
SuperCTV beats Pacific.Macta 10-8 at the CrossFire Stars 2015 Invitational in Hanoi, Vietnam
21,000 Xbox One users ask for background music other than Snap which stays on the screen,
Westballa gets a video showing the dichotomy of his steady game face versus his vicious gameplay
Valve announces the next Dota 2 Major Championship will be at Shanghai China’s 18k seat Mercedes Benz Arena March 2 - 6
Scuf Gaming announces their controllers are used by over 90 percent
Disney XD will air their second Esports special “Clash of Karts: Mario Kart 8” Dec 5th
YouTube is now offering up to $1MM to help defend content creators against unjust copyright takedown requests
Ted Menmuir explains how RedBull, Coca Cola, and others are doing advertising in Esports right
Creative Review reports the average fan in eSports has a monetisation value of $2 per year compared to $18 for NHL & $54 for NFL fans
Valve partners with MLG to bring a CS:GO Major to Columbus Ohio in an 18k seat arena and will stream on MLG.tv and other platflorms
Gamespot gives a look at the last 10 years of Xbox 360
Madden NFL Live Challenge offers a $50k prize pool in Draft Champions Ranked mode
Modern Times Group’s umbrella just got a little bigger with subsidiary tournament organizer ESL acquiring CS:GO platform Esports Entertainment Association League run by Eric Thunberg - anti-cheat software installed on users computers to mine bitcoins without user’s consent
Modern Times Group & ESL partners with virtual reality company Jaunt to capture a virtual reality spectator experience at the Intel Extreme Masters San Jose 360 view and sound field
Alex Nichiporchik co-founder of tinyBuild GAMES maker of indie game SpeedRunner offers great advice for indie game makers
Bossland, creator of a series of bots entitled “Buddy” that allow users to cheat in all of Blizzard’s games is being sued by Blizzard. James Enright a freelancer of Bossland strikes a deal with Blizzard “StormBuddy” source code
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Ken Hoang “Smash Brothers” documentary
Jang Gyeong-hwan “Marin” leaves SK Telecom T1
Natus Vincere beats Team Solo Mid at IEM San Jose’s CS:GO
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The votes are in for the December 10th 2015 League of Legends All-Star Game in LA
Hai Lam Cloud9
Søren Bjerg "Bjergsen" Team SoloMid
Peter Peng “Doublelift” Counter Logic Gaming
Zaqueri Black “Aphromoo” Counter Logic Gaming
Marcus Hill “Dyrus” Team SoloMid
Heo Seung-hoon “Huni” Fnatic
Maurice Stückenschneider “Amazing” Origen
Enrique Cedeño Martínez “xPeke” Origen
Martin Larsson “Rekkles” Fnatic
Raymond Tsang “kaSing” H2k Gaming
Jang Gyeong-Hwan “MaRin” SK Telecom T1
Go Dong-bin “Score” KT Rolster
Lee Sang-hyeok “Faker” SK Telecom T1
Kim Jong-in “PraY” Tigers
Hong Min-gi “MadLife” CJ Entus
Tong Yang “Koro1” EDward Gaming
Ming Kai “ClearLove” EDward Gaming
Song Eui-jin “RooKie” Invictus Gaming
Jian Zi-hao “Uzi” OMG
Chen Bo “Pyl” LGD Gaming
Chen Yi “Ziv” e-Sports Club
Hung Hau-hsuan “Karsa” Flash Wolves
Kurtis Lau “ToyZ” Hong Kong Esports
Chang Bo-Wei “Bebe” Assassin Sniper
Kim Joo-sung “Olleh” Hong Kong Esports

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