Written by News Writer | 19 June 2013
Posted in News - Starcraft

Just as for the Korean part of  WCS, the American new season will not be held by  MLG, but by a cooperation between  NASL and former  IPL members, whom now represent BliZZard.

NASL will handle the LAN part of the event, while BliZZard will handle the first part of the second season.

Much like in the Korean scene, MLG will handle the Challenger League as does GOM.tv in Korea.

MLG staff had to say:

"After coordinating on WCS America Season 1 and careful consideration, we have decided to transition away from operation of WCS America and refocus efforts on producing our own eSports competitions.

It was a pleasure working with Blizzard on the inaugural season, however given the structure of the relationship and the impact on the organization, players and community, we feel that it will better serve the eSports ecosystem to run tournaments independently.

Our next major event will be the Spring Championship in Anaheim on June 28-30 which will feature StarCraft II as a WCS Tier 1 competition with $25,000 in prize money and a 128-player open bracket, offering an opportunity for local American StarCraft II talent to test their skills against proven, world-class pro gamers.

We will continue to produce the WCS America Season 1 competition through the end of Challenger League and Up/Down matches, which will conclude on June 21. The complete broadcast schedule is available here. We thank the community for participating in and watching Season 1, look forward to showcasing StarCraft II at the MLG Spring Championship, and wish the players participating in WCS Season 2 the best of luck."

The action will resume somewhere in July.

Written by do_0h | 19 June 2013
Posted in News - Starcraft

It was today announced that the former  Dignitas and  TheGD studio caster,  Shaun "Apollo" Clark has signed a contract with  ESL.tv and will now move to Germany in order to help  Kaelaris cast  WCS Europe Season 2 and any Intel Extreme Masters event there is.

 ESL.tv managers stated:

"We are happy to announce the hiring of renowned StarCraft II commentator Shaun 'Apollo' Clark. Shaun will take the role of Lead Commentator for the World Championship Series Europe and Intel Extreme Masters. With a fantastic performance in the first season of WCS Europe: Premier League, Shaun already played an important role in bringing the Starcraft excitement to our fans around the world. The fulltime addition of Shaun to the ESL TV team will further increase the broadcast quality of events like WCS Europe and the Intel Extreme Masters."

 Apollo stated:

"WCS is the main project I want to work on and I am happy to be making the move to Germany to be fully involved in not only the WCS but also the IEM stops. Having already worked alongside ESL TV for WCS Season 1, they are very hard working and are dedicated to improving themselves and giving the best show possible, which is an attitude I relate to and appreciate. Now, lets kick ass for WCS EU Season 2!” 

Written by News Writer | 19 June 2013
Posted in News - Starcraft

The players list for the upcoming  MLG has been made public. There are many players, and the list contains some big names also.

There is to mention that different from other MLG's this time the really big names are not there.

Some well known players are:  TLO,  Grubby,  iNcontroL,  Golden,  Dragon,  Apocalypse,  CatZ,  DeMuslim,  HUK,  HyuN,  HwangSin,  Illusion,  NaNiwa,  Ostojiy,  Polt,  qxc,  soO,  sC,  SaSe,  TheStC,  ThorzaiN,  viOLet,  YugiOh,  Sound 

The action will start on 28'th of June and will end on 30'th of June

Written by Profi | 18 June 2013
Posted in News - Dota Allstars

UPDATE #3:  Alliance team became the champion of Dreamhack Summer DOTA 2. In the final they overcame  Quantic Gaming. Check updated article for results and final standings.

UPDATE: First day at  Dreamhack Summer DOTA 2 is completed.  Team Liquid won all its matches and became #1 in Group A. Second spot went to  Mousesports.

In Group B  Virtus.pro made a streak of 3 wins and became top 1 in its group.  Team Dignitas has reached the playoff stage as well.

Two BYOC winners are  Keita Gaming and  Infernity Gaming. They will play today in Group C and D respectively.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Team Liquid	Virtus.pro	NaVi	Alliance
Mousesports	Team Dignitas	Evil Geniuses	Quantic Gaming
eL Pride	TCM	Flip.Sid3 (ex AL)	fnaticEU
4FC	Uebelst-gamynG	Keita Gaming	Infernity Gaming

Bracket:

Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final		Champion
Team Liquid
[1:2]		Quantic Gaming
Quantic Gaming
		[2:0]		Quantic Gaming
Evil Geniuses
[2:1]		Evil Geniuses
Virtus.pro
				[1:2]		Alliance
Team Dignitas
[2:1]		Team Dignitas
NaVi
		[0:2]		Alliance
Alliance
[2:1]		Alliance
Mousesports

Official stream with Draskyl and Ayesee: completed

Prize distribution:

1. Alliance - $22,300
2. Quantic Gaming - $10,600
3/4. Team Dignitas, Evil Geniuses - $3,800 each
5/8. Team Liquid,  Virtus.pro, NaVi,  Mousesports - $1,500 each 

Written by News Writer | 18 June 2013
Posted in News - Starcraft

UPDATE #3: Despite to many complains that in Starcraft 2: HotS Protoss race is weakest one - representative of this race became the champion of Dreamhack Summer SC2. In the final  Stardust won over  Jaedong [3:2] after a gruelling duel, in which both players made agressive plays, all-in's and base trades. 

UPDATE #2: Group stage at Dreamhack Summer CS Starcraft 2 is finished. Only seven players still stand tall in front of the first place,  Jaedong is the first to make it to the Ro4, he awaits to see the result of  TLO vs.  Taeja. Bracket is below

The groups for the upcoming Starcraft 2 tournament at  DreamHack Eizo Summer 2013 have been announced, out of the total 32 groups, only few catch an eye at the first glimpse.

For example we have Group 14 with  Najzmajs,  Sting and  PoYo , then there is Group 15 with  TargA,  SortOf and  MaddeLisk, apart from these two the rest have two pro players and two unknown players, but it's not hard to see some upsets.

The sad part is that a bunch of the Korean players such as  viOLet,  Polt,  Symbol,  DongRaeGu,  SuperNova and  monchi,  Naama,  SaSe,  XlorD canceled their participation. To replace them, the organizers have brought in some local players and  Life.

The action will start tomorrow, with the first group stage.

Bracket:

Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final		Champion
Jaedong
[2-0]		Jaedong
LucifroN
		[2-0]		Jaedong
TLO
[0-2]		Taeja
Taeja
				[2-3]		StarDust
Life
[1-2]		SjoW
SjoW
		[0-2]		StarDust
StarDust
[2-1]		StarDust
HyuN

Written by Profi | 18 June 2013
Posted in News - League of Legends

UPDATE #4:  Copenhagen Wolves won the Dreamhack Summer 2013 League of Legends. Surprisingly silver medals went to team from Turkey  Dark Passege.

UPDATE #2: Now we are know all participants which are reached the main stage from BYOC tournament. Check updated article for the groups at  Dreamhack Summer League of Legends. Matches will start today!

UPDATE: Four invited teams to  Dreamhack Summer 2013 League of Legends are  Mousesports,  Heimerdingers Colossi,  PrideFC,  MrBobi. As mentioned below, top 4 teams from BYOC will take part on main event as well.

Group A	Group B
Copenhagen Wolves	Heimerdinger's Colossi
Dark Passege	Eternity Gaming
Mousesports	GamingGear
Druidz eSports Europe	Reason Gaming

Bracket:

Semifinal		Final		Champion
Dark Passege
[2:0]		Dark Passege
Eternity Gaming
		[1:2]		Copenhagen Wolves
Heimerdinger's Colossi
[0:2]		Copenhagen Wolves
Copenhagen Wolves

Official stream: completed

1.  Copenhagen Wolves

3/4.  Eternity Gaming,  Heimerdinger's Colossi

Written by News Writer | 17 June 2013
Posted in News - Starcraft

Today in a Twitter post, the Mexican terran player announced that he will be leaving  Team 8 as of today.

The reason behind this move is the fact that  KeSpa is lowering the number of players by 4 and he is one of those four players.

 MajOr posted:

"It was a nice experience, i dont regret anything i done here so far, im happpy with the choices i made mistakes or not."

This makes for the following roster in  Team 8:

 Argo(C)

 Check

 Cure

 Neige

 Pigbaby

 Savage

 Terminator

 TRUE

 TY

Written by Profi | 17 June 2013
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

UPDATE #3: CS GO tournament at Dreamhack Summer 2013 is completed. All those who predicted "end of NiP's domination" should stay quite for the next big event. Despite to shaky start at the group stage, in playoff  NiP showed completely different level and was just unbeatable. Check updated article for bracket, results and final standings.

UPDATE #2: Group stage at Dreamhack Summer CS GO is finished. One of the main favorite of entire event  fnatic has left the DH Summer from the group stage. They have lost two times to  Lemondogs. Check updated news for the bracket.

UPDATE: Battles in Group A and B are over. The first sensational result came from  Western Wolves which crushed  NiP on Nuke map [16:2]. After that, NiP played against  Team X in playoff's decider match and was one step from abyss. During the match Team X had 5 matchpoints, but NiP came back and won the match in two overtimes [22:20]. NiP reached the playoff, but does it mean that total domination of NiP is over? Playoff will answer!

Actually Group B is the "sickest" group at Dreamhack Summer CS GO. All teams in terms of skill and teamplay are pretty close to each other. The main disappointment came from  /10/ team which showed impressive results at online leagues recently, but at LAN they failed. Most probably this happened due to lack of LAN experience. Also, sad situation is occured with  Team Curse. The only team from North America left the event right from the group stage. By this, from Group B in playoff we will see  Cph Wolves and  Epsilon.

Today games in Groups C and D will be held. Groups are filled with  H2k.mix and  Cursive respectively. Those teams won the slots via BYOC tournament.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Western Wolves	Cph Wolves	Virtus.pro	LDLC
NiP	Epsilon	ESC Gaming	Lemondogs
Refuse	Curse	Raiders	ALTERNATE
Team X	/10/	H2k.mix	fnatic

Bracket:

Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final		Champion
Western Wolves
[0:2]		Epsilon
Epsilon
		[2:1]		Epsilon
LDLC
[0:2]		LDLC
ESC Gaming
				[0:2]		NiP
Virtus.pro
[2:0]		Virtus.pro
Lemondogs
		[0:2]		NiP
Cph Wolves
[1:2]		NiP
NiP

Prize distribution:

1. NiP - €8,200
2. Epsilon - €4,700
3/4. Virtus.pro, LDLC - €2,930 each
5/8. Cph Wolves,  Lemondogs,  ESC Gaming, Western Wolves - €1,170 each

Schedule of Dreamhack Summer CS GO:

15th June - BYOC tournament, games in Groups A and B
16th June - games in Groups C and D
17th June - playoff stage

We will keep updating this news with streams, results, brackets, standings and other actual information from DH Summer CS GO event. Stay tuned!