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DreamHack will come to the West Coast for the first time in 2020 as the esports festival announced Anaheim, California, will host the event February 21–23. The event’s activities will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The gaming lifestyle festival will include professional esports tournaments, a bring your own computer (BYOC) LAN party, a […]
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Big Ticket Sports LLC, the event management and production company started by NBA legend Kevin Garnett, has made an investment in Triumph Esports, which includes both a professional esports team and the competitive esports company Rivalcade. “Our relationship with Triumph Esports is a natural fit as we look to showcase and elevate shared lifestyle experiences […]
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The drive to get more females involved in esports took another leap forward when Bumble and Gen.G announced that they will form the first all-women esports team, Team Bumble, that will compete in Fortnite tournaments around the world. The partnership between Bumble, which promotes itself as a women-first social networking app, and Gen.G, an esports […]
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Riot Games will partner with Honda, bringing the automaker further into the esports realm by having it sponsor the League of Legends Championship Series and Team Liquid, currently the league’s top-ranked team. The partnership will launch with the start of the Summer Split Playoffs in August in Los Angeles, and the LCS Finals in Detroit. […]
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Based off the runaway success of the Fortnite World Cup in New York, Epic Games will be starting a Champions Series beginning with the game’s 10th in-game season, scheduled to start August 1. The Fortnite game publisher says it will offer millions of dollars in prizes based around an online leaderboard. The World Cup staged […]
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ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando will host a national interscholastic high school esports tournament in 2020 in conjunction with the Electronic Gaming Federation, featuring the best high school esports teams in the country. The event will take place in June at the ESPN complex at Walt Disney World Resort. Teams will advance […]
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The JCC Maccabi Games, the largest organized sports program for Jewish teenagers in North America, has announced that it will add esports as an exhibition event to its program in 2019. More than 3,000 Jewish teens are scheduled to compete in different sports at the event, which will be staged in Atlanta (July 28–August 2) […]
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Cavs Legion Gaming Club, the NBA 2K League affiliate of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, has announced that the team will play its games in a new esports center to be built in Cleveland’s Battery Park neighborhood. The venue is scheduled to open in fall 2019 and will serve as not only as a home venue […]
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Esports Stadium Arlington will host the 2019 Esports Awards, an awards program in its fourth year honoring achievements in the esports industry. The event, which has been held the past three years in London, will be staged November 16 at the stadium in Arlington, Texas, and will offer general admission to fans for the first […]
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Major League Baseball will get into the esports arena with the launch of a new league in seven Chinese cities, according to multiple reports. The MLB China eSports League will be held in Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou during the regular season and Shanghai for the playoffs with MLB: The Show being run. The […]
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