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ELeague
''ELeague'', shortened as ''EL'', and stylized as ''ΞLEAGUE'' is an esports league and American television show that airs on TBS. It was announced in September 2015 as a partnership between Turner Broadcasting and talent agency WME/IMG. The name "ELeague" was officially unveiled later that year. Launched with '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' in May 2016, the league featured 24 teams from across the world to compete in two 10-week league seasons annually, which includes a regular season, playoffs, and a championship. ELeague currently has no plans to lock teams into exclusivity, unlike the Championship Gaming Series, a previous attempt to bring professional video games to television in the United States. Matches are broadcast live on TBS every Monday night. ELeague later shortened the number of teams in the tournament to sixteen for CS:GO. The third season of ELeague featured the popular fighting game '' Street Fighter''. EL also featured side events, such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astralis
Astralis is a Danish esports organization. Best known for their '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' team, they also have teams representing other games, such as '' FIFA'' and '' League of Legends''. The parent group of Astralis is the Astralis Group, who previously managed Origen and Future F.C. before the merger of all teams under the Astralis brand. ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' division History 2018 On January 19, Astralis entered into the ELEAGUE Major in the United States with the group stages being played in Atlanta and the playoffs in Boston. Astralis, being the previous ELEAGUE major champions, were eager to claim the title and have a wonderful start for 2018 after a good run at the previous year. However, things didn't go as expected as they started the tournament by losing to Mousesports. The Danes found themselves in a pretty tough situation, but they managed to catch up by winning the second game against their old rivals North in a classic Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OpTic Gaming
OpTic Gaming is an American professional eSports, esports and entertainment organization headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The organization currently operates a ''Call of Duty'' team in the Call of Duty League, OpTic Texas, they also operate a ''Overwatch'' team in the Overwatch League, Dallas Fuel, as well as ''Rocket League'', Halo (franchise), ''Halo'', ''Valorant'' and ''Apex Legends'' teams. They previously competed in ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Gears of War 4, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite Battle Royale, Dota 2,'' and ''League of Legends''. The organization is currently owned by Hector "H3CZ" Rodriguez and Hastro. History OpTic Gaming was established in 2006 by OpTic "KR3W" and OpTic Enigma as a ''Call of Duty 2'' (Xbox 360) competitive team that specialized mainly in Search and Destroy and Team Deathmatch. In 2008, the group of friends would eventually grow older and the team began to dissipate. With OpTic Enigma then long gone, OpTic KR3W stepped down to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Offensive
''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (''CS:GO'') is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the ''Counter-Strike'' series. Developed for over two years, ''Global Offensive'' was released for OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in August 2012, and for Linux in 2014. Valve still regularly updates the game, both with smaller balancing patches and larger content additions. The game pits two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, against each other in different objective-based game modes. The most common game modes involve the Terrorists planting a bomb while Counter-Terrorists attempt to stop them, or Counter-Terrorists attempting to rescue hostages that the Terrorists have captured. There are nine official game modes, all of which have distinct characteristics specific to that mode. The game also has matchmaking support that allows players to play on dedicated Valve servers, in addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lewis (journalist)
Richard Lewis is a British esports journalist and livestream commentator from Wales. Having written technology articles for ''The Daily Dot'', ''Breitbart News'', and ''Cadred'', he is best known as an esports journalist and as a former desk host of ELEAGUE. Career Journalism On January 16, 2015, Lewis released an article providing evidence of Counter-Strike match fixing scandal involving the North American team iBuyPower during a game held in August 2014. His report showed that the team had purposefully lost a game. Lewis reported on staff of betting website CSGOLounge showing suspicious patterns, testimony from people involved, and leaked conversations. Following the report, Valve, owners of the ''Counter Strike'' franchise issued an indefinite ban to the players from playing in official Valve sponsored tournaments. Valve has not expanded on the sentence, except confirming the ban was "indefinite". Because of this ban, the players would not be hired by teams, knowing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk (gamer)
Victor Woodley, better known under the name Punk, is an American ''Street Fighter'' player. Career Rise to success and Eleague 2017 Punk began playing ''Street Fighter'' professionally after the release of ''Street Fighter IV'' in 2009. Though he occasionally visited local events, Punk primarily played ''Street Fighter'' online while focusing on his education. When ''Street Fighter V'' was released in 2016, Punk had completed high school and began attending tournaments more frequently. Punk first appeared on the professional scene when he qualified for the 2016 Red Bull Battlegrounds (the North American Capcom Pro Tour regional finals) through netplay. Here, Punk defeated various high-level players such as Filipino Champ, Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, Chris Tatarian, and Justin Wong, and settled on third place after losing to Tokido and NuckleDu. In the months after, Punk took home first place three tournaments in a row: Northeast Championships, Winter Brawl, and The King of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokido
, better known as Tokido, is a Japanese fighting game player who plays the ''King of Fighters'' and '' Street Fighter'' franchises. He is known for playing multiple fighting games on a competitive level in addition to Street Fighter, including ''Tekken'', '' Marvel vs Capcom 3'', and '' BlazBlue''. Tokido is a three-time EVO champion, having won ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' in 2002 as well as winning ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' in 2007 and '' Street Fighter V'' ten years later. Tokido has had 19+ Evolution top 8 finishes in 9 different games across 15 years, a feat surpassed only by Justin Wong.http://shoryuken.com/2017/07/31/evolution-of-a-champion-compilation-follows-tokidos-path-from-capcom-vs-snk-2-to-street-fighter-v-at-evo/ Career Tokido was introduced to fighting games in the 1990s, when he played '' The King of Fighters '94'' on the Neo Geo MVS. The first '' Street Fighter'' game Tokido came in contact with was '' Street Fighter 2'' on the Super Famicom. At CEO 2011 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Fox
Echo Fox was an American esports organization. It was founded on December 18, 2015, by retired basketball player Rick Fox, who created Echo Fox after he purchased the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming. The organization had expanded into various games with teams competing in titles such as ''Call of Duty'', '' CS:GO'', '' Dragon Ball FighterZ'', ''Injustice 2,'' '' Madden NFL 19'', '' Mortal Kombat'', ''Super Smash Bros.'', and '' Street Fighter V''. Echo Fox had several fighting game players with championship titles and are a well known organization in the professional scene. History On December 18, 2015 Rick Fox and his business partners, Amit Raizada and Khalid Jones, entered the professional esports scene with their acquisition of the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming, creating a new team named Echo Fox. According to Raizada, he and Jones "both offered up $1 million each to get the new team off the ground" while Fox "never put in any of his own money into Echo Fox." Fox and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FaZe Clan
FaZe Clan (formerly FaZe Sniping) is a professional esports and entertainment organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA. Founded on May 30, 2010, the organization has players from around the world, across multiple games, including ''Call of Duty'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', ''Halo Infinite,'' ''Valorant'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale,'' ''Rocket League,'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''. In 2020, the organization expanded into the Asian market, acquiring a Thai ''PUBG Mobile'' and ''FIFA Online'' roster. History FaZe Sniping made its debut on YouTube on May 30, 2010. Originally, the group were a ''Call of Duty'' clan founded by three players, Eric "CLipZ" Rivera, Jeff "House Cat" Emann (now known as "Timid") and Ben "Resistance" Christensen. The trio garnered a reputation for innovating trickshotting in the game '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2''. Their YouTube content took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBS (channel)
TBS (an abbreviation for Turner Broadcasting System) is an American pay television network owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with some sports events, including Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs, NCAA men's basketball tournament and professional wrestling show AEW Dynamite. As of September 2018, TBS was received by approximately 90.391 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States. TBS was originally established on December 17, 1976, as the national feed of Turner's Atlanta, Georgia, independent television station, WTCG. The decision to begin offering WTCG via satellite transmission to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States expanded the small station into the first nationally distributed "superstation." With the assignment of WTBS as the broadcast station's call letters in 1979, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In The United States
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. The majority of households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership. In 1948, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one television while 75 percent did by 1955, and by 1992, 60 percent of all U.S. households received cable television subscriptions. As a whole, the television networks that broadcast in the United States are the largest and most distributed in the world, and programs produced specifically for US-based networks are the most widely syndicated internationally. Due to a recent surge in the number and popularity of critically acclaimed television series during the 2000s and the 2010s to date, many critics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Championship Gaming Series
The Championship Gaming Series was an international esports league based in the United States, with teams from several other countries. The CGS was preceded by the 2006 Championship Gaming Invitational, a television pilot featuring several future CGS players. The league was founded in 2007 and was owned and operated by DirecTV in association with British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and STAR TV. It folded in 2008 after two seasons. League history Origins Although professional video game contests had been going on for several years, organizers recognized the need for it to gain greater exposure, preferably through regular telecasts. The World Series of Gaming was shown on MTV in a 30-minute special in 2005, but there were complaints about the quality of the production. Meanwhile, the World Series of Poker had become a popular program on ESPN and had turned no-limit Texas hold 'em poker into a spectator sport. Influenced by its success, David Hill, an executive at Fox Sports and Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polygon (website)
''Polygon'' is an American entertainment website that publishes blogs, reviews, guides, videos, and news primarily covering video games, as well as movies, comics, television and books. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, ''Polygon'' sought to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on the stories of the people behind the games instead of the games themselves. It also produced long-form magazine-style feature articles, invested in video content, and chose to let their review scores be updated as the game changed. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites '' Joystiq'', '' Kotaku'' and '' The Escapist''. Its design was built to HTML5 responsive standards with a pink color scheme, and its advertisements focused on direct sponsorship of specific kinds of content. Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. History The gaming blog ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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