The Peach Belt Conference and Riot Games announced Thursday that they have partnered to make the NCAA Division II conference the first in the NCAA to compete as part of the College League of Legends season. The PBC is holding its first College League of Legends regular season competition this month. Eight teams advance to […]
German soccer team Hertha Berlin has announced that it will launch its eSport Academy to find and develop the next generation of talent. It will become the first Bundesliga team to create its own academy and will focus on finding players for the FIFA video game franchise. Meanwhile, Matthias “Stylo” Hietsch, who ended 2017 as […]
In 2018, esports and traditional sports will continue to intersect, internet companies will double down on media rights, alternate realities will test how consumers watch sports and athletes train, and player-tracking data will be visualized in the NFL and NBA. If 2017 was the year that leagues started tracking player data, streaming companies started investing […]
With the inaugural season of the Overwatch League set to begin Jan. 10, the eyes of the esports world are on the league that has an astronomical buy-in for esports of $20 million per team. The Overwatch League does many things differently than traditional esports leagues. To start, the teams are franchised and spread out […]
The maker of the popular Pro Evolution Soccer video game series, Konami, has announced that it will launch a new international esports league, with help from soccer star, Gerard Piqué. Konami is teaming up with eFootball.Pro, an esports company founded by the FC Barcelona defender in 2016 and has said that the league will be […]
