This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid.
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eSports Weekly 11/28/16
All-Star Barcelona 2016
The All-Star Event is held by Riot Games every year in different places around the world. As opposed to Worlds, the All-Star event is not meant to be competitive but has regional matches, fun game modes, and a 1v1 tournament. This year the games take place in Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona from December 8-11th. The players are divided into two teams: Team Fire, which includes the LCK, NA LCS, and IWC All-Stars; and Team Ice, which includes EU LCS, LMS, and LPL All-Stars. The Fun Game Modes include Marksmen, Poro King, One for All, Assassins, Tandem, and All-Stars.
New Champion Camille Gameplay
Camille - Gameplay 1
Redemption is Science
Redemption is Science
Wildturtle pulls a Wildturtle
Red Buff Steal
Hello Hauntzer?
Amazing Cassio Play
Wombo Combo
Bard Prediction
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Esports Championship Series Season 2
The ECS, or Esports Championship Series, is in its second season. Ten teams from both Europe and North America are in a round robin and playing against each other in two best-of-one series. The regional stage lasts from October 7th to November 13th. The top four teams advance to the Season 2 Finals while the bottom two teams are relegated to the Season 3 Promotion.
The Season Two Finals take place from December 9-11th at the Anaheim Arena in California. As the largest CS:GO event ever in Southern California, the top four teams from NA and EU will be competing for over $750,000.
ECS EU Standings & Results
ECS NA Standings & Results
ELEAGUE Season 2
ELEAGUE was the first CS:GO league to be streamed on broadcast television and has just started its second season. With a $1,100,000 USD prize pool, the league goes from October 21st to December 3rd.
The Group Stage has finished with some surprising results.
Here are the results so far:
The playoffs are this week. Here is how the bracket looks like:
DreamHack Winter 2016
DreamHack Winter 2016 took place from November 24-26 in Jönköping, Sweden. With $100,000 USD on the line, eight different teams competed in a double elimination group stage and a single elimination Playoffs.
Here are the results:
With GODSENT, Gambit Gaming, Renegades, and Team Kinguin out of the Group Stages, Gambit was able to advance to the Finals by beating GODSENT 2-1. In the Finals, Gambit beat the Renegades 2-0 by winning 16-12 in Nuke and 16-10 in Cobblestone to win $50,000 USD.
Rain noscope wallbang
auti deagle 3k
snax 3 noscopes with AWP 1v3 clutch
Stew almost perfectly jumps over mou's scope
n0thing forgets who's on Gambit
Tarik Insane Mag7 Shots
NiKo with an incredible Ace
Surreal 1v4 against Heroic to win the map
Dota 2
Dota2 Professional League Season 2
The Dota2 Professional League is China's first large-scale individual eSports league. There are two leagues: the Top League and Secondary League, with ten teams in each. Each team plays in a best-of-two Round Robin. With a prize pool of $900,000 USD, the tournament runs from September 19th to December 31st.
Here are the standings for the Top League:
Here are the standings for the Secondary League:
ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season 6
DreamLeague Season 6 is a major Dota 2 tournament featuring four teams. Playing for $185,000 USD, the four teams from League Play qualify for the finals in a double elimination best-of-three bracket leading to a best-of-five Grand Final.
Team Liquid had a perfect run beating The Imperial in the Semifinals 2-0 and Alliance 2-0 in the Winners' Finals. In the Grand Finals, Team Liquid beat Escape Gaming 3-0 to take the whole tournament for $90,000 USD.
Alliance - do you know what smoke does?
Notail is a beautiful flower and a hell of a player
Miracle and MATUMBAMAN perform SirenSong + Requiem combo
Overwatch APEX is Overwatch's first major tournament in Korea. With about $178,000 USD on the line, 16 teams from around the world will compete from October 7th to December 3rd. The format involves a Round Robin where all matches are best-of-five with the top two teams advancing to the Playoffs. The Playoffs have best-of-five Quarterfinals and Semifinals and a best-of-seven Final.
Here are the results so far:
DreamHack Winter 2016
DreamHack Winter 2016 featured eight teams playing for $50,000 USD and went on from November 25-26. Here's how it played out:
compLexity makes this giant Sombra and D.Va combo
Overwatch League: The Path to Glory
Team Envy vs Rogue | OGN Overwatch APEX S1 Quarterfinals Highlights
Rogue vs EnVyUs ft. Mickie D.Va Highlights
ArHaN and AF Blue vs BK Stars Highlights
AF Blue vs BK Stars - ft. ArHaN’s Genji and D.Va | OGN Overwatch APEX Semifinals Highlights
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James Hwang
My first MMOs included Ragnarok Online, Gunbound, Diablo II, and World of Warcraft. Nowadays, my wife (also a writer on MMOs) and I play League of Legends and any other MMOs we can get our hands on. I also love following eSports and attending eSports events.