Sentences with phrase «at esporting»

KontrolFreek's scholarship is unique in that applicants don't necessarily need to be any good at eSports to win tuition money, nor do they need to play any specific game to qualify.

Steep is a brand new open world game from Ubisoft that is aimed at the eSports crowd with a focus on extreme winter sports.

Thank Arceus that backwards - ass Nintendo is finally putting out a game that can be played competitively at an eSports level.

At Gamescom, the second live event qualification for the Just Dance World Cup will be taking place from August 6th to August 9th at the eSports World Cup Stand (Hall 10.1 Booth A-046) between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm.

I think the way that you look at eSports is that it's a very competitive skillset and you look at these professional gamers and the reflexes are lightning quick and they're having to make very quick decisions on the fly.»

Taking place at the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California, Liberation X battled through three days of matches, ending up in a showdown on the final day against Nemesis Hydra.

Enthusiast Gaming Live was «Toronto's Largest Gaming Communities At An eSports Grassroots Event at The International Center,» and it was being held this past weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

Hoeksma joins Sold Out from her role at esports organisation ESL where she served as business development director.

Named New eSports Game of the Year at the eSports Industry Awards 2016, the first - person shooter from Blizzard has become a real phenomenon since its launch.

The Franco - Swedish development studio Lightbulb Crew has teamed up with Team Acer at their eSports Arena to present the Early Access version of Games of Glory and the latest Acer gaming hardware to a large audience at gamescom 2015.

Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to Ross Brawn about the way gamers can be integrated into F1, and he suggested it won't just stop at eSports.

Steep is a brand new open world game from Ubisoft that is aimed at the eSports crowd with a focus on extreme winter sports.

In 2017 he's earned top 16 finishes at three Premier Events, including a win at Esports Festival Hong Kong, and at three Ranking Events with two of those being wins at Abuget Cup 2017 and Fight Club NRW — VIII -.

At a recent pre-E3 event in Los Angeles, Bandai Namco featured the VR version of Project Cars 2, including a sit - down motion simulator version that combined a VR headset with an accurate car simulation complete with pedals and a gear shifter, so there's also that element that could be featured at esports events in the future.

«Therefore it's pretty much a given that if you see Project Cars at an esports event or live event, VR will play a big part.

Nintendo's focus appears to be taking the Switch to many different locations, including at home, walking the dog in the park, catching a flight, in a hotel, at a party, and on stage at an eSports event.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced it's extending its Yahoo Sports vertical, arguably one of its most successful divisions at the moment, to covering eSports.

Activision's investment in eSports comes at a time where PC games like Riot Games» League of Legends, Valve's Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft II dominate the scene.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

With virtual reality all the rage at CES this year, Virtuix is hosting the first - ever eSports tournament in VR.

And if that isn't enough, two companies are currently hard at work developing a 1,000 - seat facility in Oakland's Jack London Square for the sole purpose of watching other people play video games, aka eSports, a $ 463 million global business this year.

When you look at the last 15 years of eSports history, and in particular the production quality, sponsor involvement, global reach and audience, you will notice that the quality and level of entertainment have always gone up with an audience boost.

Just a few years ago, eSports was a community for video gamers who gathered together at conventions to play CounterStrike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

Livestreaming platform Hitbox takes aim at new investor Wargaming's eSports audience to help grow its market share.

The eSports industry is valued at nearly $ 900 million.

«If you look at places like South Korea, where eSports are the pioneer markets, you've got guys on the side of buildings just like [Michael] Jordan on the side of buildings in Chicago,» Mistry says.

As just one example of eSports meteoric growth, IEM's first season topped out at around 500,000 video sessions.

Nik Adams, senior vice president of sales and business development at ESL, boasts the gaming network produces world - class eSports content with the intent to ensure it reaches as many people as it possibly can.

Ralf Reichert, CEO at ESL says over the past year they've talked to many potential suitors, including large media companies, but they opted to go with MTG because of the company's understanding of eSports, production background, and distribution network.

ESports teams compete around the world in matches with huge followings and millions of dollars at stake in prizes and sponsorships.

«I think eSports in other formats has been very successful but in racing, it is at the very beginning, and I think huge potential will come.

At the recent Silverstone qualifying event for World's Fastest Gamer, we caught up with the man behind the new eSports competition

You can watch the replay of the first ever Serie A eSports match online here whilst Italian readers can attend the eSports festival where they can watch the stream at the Guido Reni District in Rome.

The future looks bright for Australian sports, with enormous crowds at cricket, AFL, rugby and soccer matches ««and with the advent of eSports, these numbers are only going to swell as we hurtle through the 21st century.

This sounds pretty special — because it will take place at Yas Marina on the same weekend as the F1 finale in Abu Dhabi, with a three - race event to decide the first eSports champion.

When the NBA announced its new NBA 2K League, there was an outcry at the realization that eSports competitors were going to make as much playing video games as actual G League players.

No one from the league will comment at this time, but it looks like the plan is to start small — then morph into something much bigger,» Friedman wrote of the league's plans for esports.

Commissioner Gary Bettman hinted at this idea when discussing esports in March.

We all love sim racing here at WTF1, so it only seemed logical that we get into the esports game.

Recently, however, sim racing and esports have become ever more popular in motorsport and some of the top virtual drivers are being given a serious opportunity at next month's Race Of Champions event in Saudi Arabia.

A roll - out of other official esports racing events and series looked likely following the success and huge interest shown at last year's F1 esports series.

The problem for Brendon at the Race of Champions is that even the esports contest features a bit of real - life driving - and until now, he'd never driven an actual car before!

The DiRT 4 WRX competition announcement arrives at the same time as Renault Sport reveals that it is working in an official capacity with professional esports outfit Team Vitality in a bid to dominate the motorsport esports scene.

But the truth is, esports has been and will be popular whether or not traditionalists thumb their noses at it.

The game between the two teams has attracted a lot of money placed on the outcome at bet on esports with the Reds seems to be the favorites to win on Saturday night.

Written by Tanner Banks, November 2, 2016, at 1:44 p.m. eSports are here, and are here to stay.

EA Sports» FIFA has been added to the Esports High Performance Centre at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The February Update for Forza Motorsport 7 introduces the new Spectate and Seed the Grid features, which are targetted at online multiplayer / eSports players.

The Big N will host two esports tournaments for Super Smash Bros and Splatoon 2 and plans on breaking the internet on June 12 at 9 AM PT with a new Nintendo Direct.

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