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Genesis. What an appropriate name for the first tournament Adam Armada” Lindgren would play in the United States. Once upon a time Armada was the actual underdog when going into a set, and Genesis was the first of many in which he would beat Jason Mew2King” Zimmerman. Mew2King was once …
Read More »League Of Legends: What G2’s Disastrous MSI Performance Actually Tells Us
Heading into the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), most fans of the European League of Legends’ scene were pleased to see G2 eSports representing their region. The team had stormed the EU LCS in their rookie split, with a combination of individual skill and teamwork. They also had a cocksure aura around …
Read More »Enemy owner Clerkie on turning down $1M offer for LCS spot: "Everybody around me thinks I’m crazy. Looking back, I might even think I was crazy."
DremHack Austin was a busy yet probably satisfying weekend for Dan Clerkie” Clerke. He’s still the owner of Enemy, an organization with Smite, Dota 2 and Super Smash Bros teams (though they’ve also dabbled with League of Legends and Counter-Strike in the past). But Clerkie was watching as his other …
Read More »Massan and the Viewbotting Witch Hunt
Harry ”MaSsan” Cheong’s split from Cloud9 is only the latest development in the Hearthstone streamer’s saga of Twitch bans and viewbotting allegations. Twitch and C9 have been tight-lipped throughout the drama, while Reddit sleuths and competing streamers have fed a frenzy of accusations and speculation. In the faint hope of …
Read More »Exploring the rapid rise of Rocket League
According to the developers, Rocket League wasn’t their first physics-based video game involving cars and soccer balls in a cage. The first version, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars”, was released in 2008 for PS3. While SARP wasn’t nearly as successful as Rocket League, it remains a critically-acclaimed title among fans of …
Read More »Zfreek on why nationality is irrelevant when it comes to performance
Zakari ‘ZfreeK’ Freedman is compLexity Gaming’s support player and also CoL captain Kyle ‘swindlemelonzz’ Freedman’s real life brother. Transferring to Dota 2 from Heroes of Newerth along with his brother, Zfreek has managed to stay out of the limelight, happily accepting his brother to bask in the public eye. The …
Read More »Athletes and eSports: Why Visas Are Complicated
Finally. After many months of being barred from competition, TSM has announced that Leffen has received a temporary P1 Visa that grants him access to the United States. This is great news for Melee fans, but one that comes as a bit of a surprise. Why now, when not before? …
Read More »The DreamHack Austin eSports overview
The biggest LAN (local area network) party on the planet is coming to North American soil for the first time with DreamHack Austin (Texas) this week. Since its inception in 1994, DreamHack was the answer to the question, "What group consistently puts on the largest digital competition, LAN party and …
Read More »WildTurtle predicts MSI and weighs in on CLG representing NA
He might have missed out on his chance to represent NA at the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational, but that doesn’t mean that Jason "WildTurtle" Tran doesn’t have his fair share of opinions about the event. WildTurtle stopped by theScore esports office while he was time back home in Toronto to discuss …
Read More »The house that Liquid built
It’s 12:30 p.m. in Los Angeles on a weekday in April. Looking at the outside of a nondescript condo development, you’d never guess what’s happening within. A team of professional gamers have just started a "scrim" against another team. Sitting in leather chairs with "Team Liquid" embroidered on them, some …
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