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The competitive Fortnite landscape just saw another seven champions after the Bugha Throwback Cup wrapped up on Friday evening. In honor of the Fortnite World Cup Champion, Bugha helped tournament organizers design a format and scoring system in his name. Duo World Cup Champions Aqua and Nyhrox earned the same privilege earlier this week . Although Bugha did not win the NA East portion, all seven competitive Fortnite regions saw action. Chief among them all came from Bugha’s home region with Clix reigning supreme. With a prize pool of $100K USD, players had all the incentive to put forth a strong effort. Ahead of the fourth-ever Fortnite Champion Series, let’s see who came out on top in each region. Europe Polish player and two-time FNCS Finalist Kami triumphed in the European region after six matches of play. He accumulated 286 points overall with two second-place finishes and a sixth. Kami also tied for the second most eliminations with 17 behind only FaZe Mongraal. The young r...

This year's World Championship is officially on. Today, Riot Games and LoL Esports announced details about this year's League of Legends World Championship. Though this year's Mid-Season Invitational would have been an amazing event , it was unfortunately canceled . At first, some thought the show might not go on for Worlds this year, but Riot promised to hold it back in July. Now, they're delivering and showing us what the tournament will look like this year. We're excited to celebrate the 2020 World Championship this September in China! #Worlds2020 See this video message from Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent and Global Head of Esports John Needham about our current plans: pic.twitter.com/c8trp4x8LD — LoL Esports (@lolesports) August 1, 2020 First off, Worlds 2020 is set to start on September 25 and finish off with the Finals on October 31. Secondly, the event will be held in Shanghai, China as originally planned. Unlike other years though, all of the eve...

U.S Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has failed in her proposed move to stop the U.S Military from recruiting on Twitch. Had the bill passed the House Committee on Appropriation Bill would have barred the U.S. military from using federal funds to have “a presence on Twitch.com or any video game, e-sports, or livestreaming platform.” The amendment came after AOC criticized the U.S. military’s use of platforms such as Twitch to recruit young viewers into joining the military. The controversy started when the U.S. military’s official Twitch account ran “competitions” which it’s claimed were being used as recruitment tools. The account has also been aggressively banning users who bring up past U.S. war crimes. After the vote had failed, AOC took to Twitter to highlight her frustration: Imagine trying to explain to your colleagues who are members of Congress what Twitch is 😭 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 30, 2020 “Imagine trying to explain to your colleagu...

Let’s take a look at one of ‘cheesiest’ support champs, Pantheon, The Unbreakable Spear. Pantheon support has regained popularity during season 10, and especially so during Summer Split in professional play. Mostly seen as a top lane bruiser, Pantheons point and click stun, ability to tank tower shots and solid burst DPS, has made him a surprise cheese pick in the bot lane. The Pros High Base Damage Point-and-click Stun Good Poke Roam with Ult Can take 2x Tower Shot With W Level 1 Cheese The Cons Easy to Harras High Early Mana Cost Is an Assasins, so Lower Tanky Stats Cannot Play v AP Laners due to Poke Can be Countered by Enemy Hugging Tower Pantheon Ability Overview Passive — Mortal Will — Every 5th ability or AA will grant your passive. At 5 stacks each of Pantheons abilities are enhanced. Crucially your stun will cause you to land 3 quick basic attacks, getting you back to 5 stacks again faster. You’ll also gain 5 stacks after spawning in the fountain and wh...

Legendary Danish team Astralis is reportedly looking to add former MAD Lions rifler Lucas “Bubzkji” Andersen to its growing roster. CS:GO powerhouse Astralis is looking to sign former MAD Lions star Lucas “Bubzkji” Andersen, according to a recent report from HLTV . Bubzkji has been without a team since June, as per a report from 1pv . The Astralis roster has grown to seven members since the additions of Jakob “JUGi” Hansen and Patrick “es3tag” Hansen earlier this year. Bubzkji’s position on MAD Lions came into question earlier this summer. 1pv reported that the 22-year-old had been moved to the bench. During his time under the MAD Lions banner, Bubzkji reached the semi-finals of DreamHack Open Sevilla, DreamHack Open Leipzig, and later won the inaugural season of Flashpoint. The team has not competed since the news of Bubzkji’s benching. Astralis Add More Danish team Astralis began to grow their CS:GO roster this year. It began with the signings of former Heroic player Patrick “es...

Fortnite’s first-ever Aqua and Nyhrox Throwback Cup concluded yesterday evening across six of the seven competitive regions. Epic Games moved the European version of this tournament to next month for COOLER aqua, who is recovering from tendinitis. Unfortunately, the competitive Fortnite fandom has to wait for the reunion between the Fortnite World Cup Champions. NA East, NA West, Oceania, Brazil, Middle East and Asia all were able to complete their respective final rounds. The tournament itself gave viewers an insight into duos in Chapter 2 - Season 3 from a competitive standpoint. Some notable duos qualified for the Grand Finals. Players had only six games to rack up as many points as possible. Let’s take a look at who came out on top of each region in the Aqua and Nhyrox Throwback Cup. NA East 1st in Aqua and Nyhrox cup ($8750) pic.twitter.com/1WXzCJmDOa — Liquid Cented (@Cented7) July 30, 2020 The former NA West duo of Liquid Cented and NRG Edgey shined in the Aqua and Ny...

Toronto Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner has joined the ownership group of Canadian organization OverActive Media. OverActive Media are owners of MAD Lions, the European League of Legends team and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. They also own Toronto Defiant in the Overwatch League and Toronto Ultra in the Call of Duty League. The “investor relationship” with Marner will see him become an important member of OverActive Media. He'll be the “latest ambassador and an important part of OverActive’s brand-building efforts.” Chris Overholt, CEO and President of OverActive Media spoke in a press release: "With roots in the city of Toronto, our entire organization is thrilled to welcome a hometown hero and hockey superstar like Mitch Marner to our investor family. Mitch's authenticity within the Call of Duty scene and his interest in growing the esports industry will be such great additions to our fanbase and to each of our franchises." Marner commented on the deve...

Rasmus “Misery” Filipsen is known for his attempts to form a competitive tier one team, we take a look at his newest offering alongside Johan “pieliedie” Astrom. Over the last couple of years, Misery has had a few really promising teams but none of them was able to make it to the big stage. Now, he's decided to team up with some of the former OG.Seed players in another attempt to break into the Tier 1 scene. What happened with OG.Seed? Those of you who’ve been following the Dota 2 scene for a while now probably remember that OG decided to introduce a second squad. However, due to the lack of good results, as well as tricky tournament regulations, OG.Seed ceased to exist. Despite that, some of the best players from this team decided that they will try their luck yet again. This time, they will team up with two of the most experienced European Dota 2 players — Misery and pieliedie. The newest European Dota 2 team is called 5men, and features the following players: Marcus “...

After spending a year on the roster, T1 have decided it's time to part ways with Lee “Forever” Sang-don. T1 is one of the most legendary League of Legends organizations in the world. Even though they decided to enter the Dota 2 scene around one year ago, their efforts to break into the DPC weren't quite as successful as many people expected them to be. That’s why one year after it's Dota 2 team was announced, T1 decided it’s time to wave goodbye to Lee “Forev” Sang-don. History 금일부로 T1 DOTA2에서 활동한 Forev 이상돈 선수와 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 되었습니다. 이상돈 선수의 새로운 도전을 응원합니다. Today we part ways with Forev. We highly appreciate his contribution to the team and wish him all the best. #T1WIN #T1Fighting pic.twitter.com/heiTyjDYvK — T1 (@T1) July 30, 2020 Forev has always been one of the strongest players in the world. He decided to join the organization on the first of August, 2019 and try to build a team that aimed at becoming the best in SEA. As a result, there were several roste...

We breakdown how Natus`Vincere play on Mirage with a close look at their last five matches before the summer break. Na`Vi is one of the most discussed and controversial teams in professional CS:GO. We take a peek at what makes their strategy so formidable. CT side 1. Aggression and stacks on pistol rounds Natus`Vincere don’t like to play passive defaults on CT-pistol rounds. In the last four out of five matches, Na`Vi played either stack on one of the sites (2 times 3B, 1 time 3A), and once they went out in aggression in mid. Only in one of the last five games, Na`Vi played passively, 2A - 1 mid - 2B. 2. Aggression on forcebuy rounds We can see a similar pattern on forcebuy rounds: Natus`Vincere prefers to be active, instead of waiting for the opponents to reach one of the sites. Overall, looking at their matches, Na`Vi will play passively on forcebuys less than 20% of the time. 3. Specific mid control on weapon rounds We rarely see this among the tier-1 teams, but Natus`Vi...

Professional Fortnite players are readying themselves for an intense FNCS tournament beginning this weekend. For Chapter 2 - Season 3 , the solo format will take center-stage with $5 million on the line. Although players are often resistant to play solos, it's hard to pass up the opportunity to further establish themselves as one of the best players. The DreamHack Online Open featuring Fortnite  provided a good preview of what to expect from a competitive standpoint. The NA East region, in particular, features some of the world's best players. Liquid STRETCH dominantly won the DreamHack tournament. Many other NA East players are looking to follow that same path with hopes of earning the ultimate Victory Royale. Today we are looking at some of the top talents in NA East ahead of the FNCS competition. STRETCH All eyes are on STRETCH ahead of the fourth seasonal Fortnite Champion Series tournament. He has improved immensely over his career, particularly in solos, despite not...

The LEC's latest development has many fans quite disappointed. Today, the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) announced a new partnership with NEOM. For those who don't know, NEOM is a planned city development project that will implement technological advances on a massive scale for residents and serve as a futuristic city of sorts. As part of the ambitious project, NEOM "will be championing the development of esports across the world." As a result of the partnership, they'll sponsor the Oracle Lens aspect of the live broadcast. So, similarly to other sponsored segments, their name and brand will be closely intertwined with the broadcast. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. It'd be just another day and just another business deal. But that's not the case here. The problem with the partnership Unfortunately, there's a lot of problems with NEOM and the culture around it. The city is set to be built in Saudi Arabi, a country infamous f...

When Riot released the beta for Valorant, professional and casual gamers were immediately drawn to the tactical first-person shooter. Esports organizations began building rosters of Fortnite, CS: GO, and Overwatch professionals to dominate the new title. In addition to T1 picking up star-studded player talent, they also managed to acquire former Counter-Strike player and now coach, Daniel "fRoD" Montaner. ESTNN got the chance to sit down with fRoD and talk about everything from choosing Valorant as his next step to the mindset of training a top team in a new game. From CS: Go to Valorant What made you want to coach professional Valorant and why was T1 an attractive option for you? "I was already coaching for a little over a year and a half in the Pro League in Counter-Strike and Braxton "Brax" Pierce was one of my players. I’ve known him for over 10 years, the same with Keven "AZK" Larivière. So when Won '"Wawa" Joon Choi, the GM, ap...

Team Nigma is the first finalist in this amazing tournament. The OGA Dota PIT Season 2: Europe/CIS is a tournament that had some of the best teams in these two regions. After a few days of epic action, we finally have our first finalist, and that’s Team Nigma. They were able to secure their spot here after an amazing series against another European powerhouse - Alliance. What happened? Keep calm and trust in @NigmaW33 ! 🖥️ https://t.co/P3m3sSAMYT #StarsAlign pic.twitter.com/xQhtt7XkCT — Team Nigma (@TeamNigma) July 29, 2020 The CIS region lost two of its representatives as VP.Prodigt and Natus Vincere got eliminated from the event. After that, it was time to see the clash between the two Europen giants. This series was really anticipated because both teams were unbeaten so far. Needless to say, everyone expected Nigma to be the victor here because Amer "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi and his team-mates played really well in the last couple of events. In the end, the predi...

ZenSports is hosting an eFootball (soccer) tournament on August 15th with $1000 going to the winner, and anyone can apply. About ZenSports ZenSports, a startup peer-to-peer mobile betting site, has recently added esports betting to their platform as traditional sports have been placed on hold. Along with the new offerings, the team has added a new brackets feature to ZenSports, which allows gamers from all over the world to create their own, custom bracket tournaments within the app. The Tournament ZenSports plans to kick off the new feature by hosting a 64-player, double elimination eFootball (soccer) bracket tournament, with some of the top players in North America, such as King CJ0, TheMightyPed, and cisséSZN having already confirmed their attendance. Public sign-ups begin today, and you can apply via the registration link at the bottom of this page. The event also features two unique additions compared to eFootball events of the past, as the final four contestants will compet...

Following a string of poor online results, Minnesota Rokkr have made the decision to bench Adam “GodRx” Brown ahead of the CDL Playoffs and Championship weekend. Minnesota Rokkr will be introducing Kaden “Exceed” Stockdale to the starting lineup to increase the teams “pacing” going into champs. Rokkr coaches Jake “Reppin” Trobaugh and Brain “Saintt” Baroska released a video on the decision to bench GodRx. 🚨 ROSTER UPDATE 🚨 pic.twitter.com/kewhrkuGJj — Minnesota RØKKR (@ROKKR) July 29, 2020 Online issues Minnesota Rokkr had an excellent start to the season, however the switch to online has not been good for them. In online matches so far, they have a 5-12 series count in total, with recent weeks being even worse. Last weekend, they won only one map in two series and have failed to win a series in their past three events. GodRx averaged a 1.27 overall K/D on LAN, while he averages a 1.19 online. While this is nowhere near the worst in the league, the whole team performance ha...

Keven "AZK" Larivière has a long history in competitive gaming, reaching all the way back to 2004. He is no stranger to first-person tactical shooters with over 10 years of professional Counter-Strike experience. The top-tier competitor played Overwatch for a short period before settling into the professional Valorant scene. AZK joined a stacked T1 squad that was predicted to be one of the strongest teams in Valorant. ESTNN was lucky enough to sit down with him and discuss his journey in esports and his future with T1 and Valorant. A natural evolution You've competed in CS: GO and Overwatch professionally, and now you are with T1 playing Valorant. Looking back on your career, what would you say were some of the most memorable moments? I have a lot of good moments from my Counter-Strike career, mainly CS: GO and CS Source. I played Source from 2004-2012 and we won 10 ESEA LAN titles. A lot of my better memories are from that time, actually. I really enjoyed playing on t...