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[ASL11] Ro24 Preview Pt 2: Bad Luck

The ASL Ro24 Continues with Group C and Group D action.Group C featuring returning fan favorites BeSt and Action along with terran hopefuls JyJ and Jaedong's former Hwaseung OZ practice partner Sexy.After seasons of trying and finally succeeding, one of our very own community members Scan has qualified into the ASL Ro24, but luck of the draw has placed him in one of the hardest groups going up against Former(and First) ASL Champion Shuttle, one of the harder TvT fights against sSak and one of the best protosses who also

DAMWON Gaming 2020 Worlds skins revealed | League of Legends

The skin line to celebrate the 2020 League of Legends World champion, DAMWON Gaming now known as DWG KIA, is now officially revealed. This reveal occurred during the LCK broadcast today, April 3, coming seven months after DAMWON Gaming’s victory in China. After a long period of waiting, fans now have the first look at the skins of the 2020 World Champions. The skins commemorate Damwon’s feat in lifting the Summoners Cup over Suning Gaming at the Pudong Football Stadium in Shanghai at last year’s Worlds finals. The 2020 DAMWON

soO: Putting Down the Boulder (for Now)

by Mizenhauer“Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end.”—Brian Flanagan“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”―Frank HerbertIt’s the end of an era. soO has played his final season in Code S before starting his military service. Whether or not soO returns in the future, this moment was always going to be more of a gut punch than your average farewell tour. After all, no individual is inextricably linked to GSL’s flagship competition than its six time runner up.Maru challenged for that honor when he

GTC Fall: Week 4 Preview – KZ vs DPG

by: TheOneAboveUAfter a week-long break for DreamHack Masters: China, the GTC will return on September 7th with the fourth week of matches. And what a return it is! Top teams and arch-rivals DPG and KaiZi will clash, with KaiZi looking to finally score a victory over their nemesis in this tournament series.BSG and Alpha X also face each other in an important match, as the victor might be able to secure a temporary position ahead of Jin Air Green Wings. JAGW are likely to surge back in the latter half

The Good, the Bad, and Ridiculous of Proleague (Pt. 1)

Edition 1: Samsung Galaxy, Mech and The Greatest of All Timeby MizenhauerStarCraft II's 10th anniversary sent the community on a collective nostalgia trip. For a certain generation of fans, SC2 Proleague might have been the first thing that came to mind. Between the thrill of ace matches, the rivalry between the teams, SPOTV’s excellent promos and the amazing fan support, Proleague was a competition unlike any other. Players of all sorts had their moment in the sun, whether it was a B-Teamer who stole a match with a strange build,

Liquid Rivalries: League of Legends

The Yankees. The Lakers. The Patriots. The Red Wings. FC Barcelona. These are all legacy teams.At this point, they’re known for being known. Even people with next to no knowledge about the game have heard these names. And if you do know the game, you probably love some of these teams for elevating it and also hate them for dominating it. Any fan from the Curse days can probably remember how frustrating it was to be a step behind TSM so often. Then, when TSM was finally slipping up, it

2015: The Renaissance and Golden Age of Korean SC2

by MizenhauerStarCraft II was always destined for great things.Its predecessor, Brood War, was the product of a bygone era where game developers weren’t concerned with balancing the game for full-time professionals, the concept of esports was mostly limited to a convention center in Mesquite, Texas and most people didn’t even have high speed internet. None of that mattered six-thousand miles away from Blizzard headquarters in South Korea, where Brood War became an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. An economic downturn, the proliferation of net cafes and high speed internet, and plain dumb

T1 Signs Partnership With Hana Bank

Three-time League of Legends world champion organization T1 (Formerly SK Telecom T1) has signed a partnership deal with Hana Bank which will see the team promote Hana Bank’s smartphone app Hana 1Q on its jerseys. Additionally, the first floor of T1’s headquarters will be named the “Hana 1Q-T1 Hall of Fame.” Hana Bank will also offer personalized financial consulting services to T1 players. On T1’s website, Hana Bank is listed as a “premier” partner, alongside the likes of Nike, BMW, and Samsung Odyssey. Source: https://esportsobserver.com/t1-partnership-hana-bank/