Author: Dominic Tommy

Esports, or Electronic Sports, is a term that is used to describe competition on video games.  As esports getting bigger by the year, it is getting into mainstream knowledge. Colleges begin to invest on their young prodigies by creating collegiate leagues for their esport club members. Big companies start to invest on esports teams by giving sponsorship. Millions of fans tune in on their respective streaming platform to watch their team fight it out on the big stage. With all of the elements aligned together, it’s time for the world to recognize esports as the newest member of the Olympics.…

Elimination Chamber is this Sunday. For the first time ever, seven men will compete inside the Elimination Chamber rather than the usual six. Also for the first time ever, there will also be a women’s elimination chamber match. For now, I want to address on why Roman Reigns is the best possible candidate to win the match. He is the top baby face in WWE right now Roman Reigns, without a shadow of a doubt, is currently the top baby face in WWE. He garners the loudest reaction, whether it’s a boo or a cheer, in the arena. With…

Analysts are a crucial position in the Dota 2 casting scene. Analysts usually are people with great insight of the game and can clearly explain things to the audience. They are paired with a play by play or “hype” caster to make a match more interesting to watch. Currently, the Dota scene is in sorrow, as one of the long standing and revered analysts retired. Ben “Merlini” Wu is retiring from the Dota scene to focus on his personal life. This leaves a gap in all of Dota fans’ hearts, as Merlini is really passionate and his love for the…

It’s clear as day that most captains on professional teams are a position 4 or 5 player in their team. Kuro “Kuroky” Takhasomi, the captain of Team Liquid and The International 2017 winner, is a position 5 player or a support player. The list also include Clement “Puppey” Ivanov, Captain of Team Secret and winner of the first ever The International, with the revered Natus Vincere. But why is support position preferred to be the captain of a team rather than the core player? Here are a few reasons why. 1. Least Lane Presence Demanding Position Lane presence is a…

The rosters have been locked. All teams that haven’t registered themselves will be unable to do so until after the International 2018. Some have seen significant changes, and some didn’t change at all. For those interested in the changes, we will provide five teams you need to look out for, born from the roster shake up. 1. Na’Vi Na’Vi started their shakeup in a big way. They traded Vladimir “Rodjer” Nikogosyan with Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk from Virtus Pro and released Akbar “Sonneiko” Butaev from the team. It’s a little confusing with the fact that Na’Vi was doing really well on…

Starladder i-League Season 4 minor is on the horizon. Today, February 1st, 2018 is the day where the Dota Pro Circuit race will continue. Eight teams will compete for the sake of 300 points in DPC leaderboard. On top of that, we will get a potential decider series for the bragging rights to be called the better team. The Contestants There are eight teams who will be participating in Starladder i-League Season 4. The events directly invite two teams with the best performance in the Dota 2 professional scene. They are Team Liquid and Newbee. Both teams will be placed…

Twitch has banned some of independent streamers recently. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, maybe you didn’t hear or sniff about this. Recently, there is a certain kind of ban wave coming from Twitch. The ban is concerning the right to broadcast ESL One Genting 2018 games. Twitch will temporarily ban any streamer that cast the games from ESL One Genting 2018. Impact-Site-Verification: -1459709427 The Victim The most recent and renown streamer is Brian “BananaSlamJamma” Canavan, or better known as BSJ. BSJ on his Twitch channel Twitch.tv/BananaSlamJamma that can’t be accessed when this article was…

The group stage of ESL One Genting 2018 has began! 400 Dota Pro Circuit Points will be competed by 16 teams. The winner will receive 200 DPC Points, the runner up will get 120 DPC Points, and the 3rd and 4th place winner will get 40 DPC Points each.  All participating teams will start with a best-of-one match. The winner will move to the winner’s bracket and the loser will play a loser’s bracket match shortly after the opening match. The Teams There are 16 teams participating in ESL One Genting 2018. There are eight directly invited teams and eight…