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Shopify Rebellion
Shopify Rebellion is a Canadian esports organization founded in February 2021 by e-commerce company Shopify, with active rosters in ''Apex Legends'', ''Dota 2'', ''Guilty Gear Strive'', ''Halo (series), Halo'', ''League of Legends'', ''Rainbow Six Siege'', ''Rocket League'', ''Super Smash Bros.'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Street Fighter'', and ''Valorant''. The team is co-owned by Shopify and Internet celebrity, internet personalities, Cr1TiKaL, Charles "Cr1TiKaL" White Jr. and Ludwig Ahgren. History On February 19, 2021, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke announced the formation of Shopify Rebellion, beginning with the organization's ''StarCraft II'' division and recruited players such as 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series, 2016 WCS champion Byun "ByuN" Hyun-woo and Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn. The organization expanded into their second esports title in April 2021, buying out the contracts of Kansas City Pioneers' ''Rocket League'' division. Shopify Rebellion entered ''Valorant'' espor ...
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Esports
Esports (), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. Multiplayer competitions were long a part of video game culture, but were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s when the advent of online streaming media platforms, particularly YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch, enabled a surge in participation by professional gamers and spectators. By the 2010s, esports was a major part of the video game industry, with many game developers designing for and funding for tournaments and other events. Esports first became popular in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea (which first licensed professional players in 2000) but less so in Japan, whose broad Gambling in Japan, anti-gambling laws prohibit professional gaming tournaments. Esports are also popular in Europe and the Americas ...
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E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is the largest sector of the electronics industry and is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry. Defining e-commerce The term was coined and first employed by Robert Jacobson, Principal Consultant to the California State Assembly's Utilities & Commerce Committee, in the title and text of California's Electronic Commerce Act, carried by the late Committee Chairwoman Gwen Moore (D-L.A.) and enacted in 1984. E-commerce typically uses the web for at least a part of a transacti ...
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Moist Esports
Moist Esports was an American esports organization founded in 2021 by Charles White Jr., also known as MoistCr1TiKaL, and was co-owned by several others, including Ludwig Ahgren. The organization had teams competing in ''Guilty Gear Strive'', ''Rocket League'', ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', ''Brawlhalla'', ''Street Fighter 6'', ''Valorant'', and ''Apex Legends''. Their ''Rocket League'' division won the Rocket League Championship Series 2021–22 Spring Split Major event in July 2022. On January 17, 2025, White and Ahgren announced that they had become co-owners of Canadian esports organization Shopify Rebellion. As such, Moist Esports ceased operations, with their teams moving to Rebellion as a process; Moist had already collaborated with them on their ''Valorant'' team (known as Moist X Shopify, or MxS). History On August 11, 2021, Internet celebrity, Internet personality Charles White Jr., known as Cr1TiKaL, announced the signing of ''Super Smas ...
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The Verge
''The Verge'' is an American Technology journalism, technology news website headquarters, headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media. The website publishes news, feature stories, guidebooks, product reviews, consumer electronics news, and podcasts. The website was launched on November 1, 2011, and uses Vox Media's proprietary multimedia publishing platform Chorus. In 2014, Nilay Patel was named editor-in-chief and Dieter Bohn executive editor; Helen Havlak was named editorial director in 2017. ''The Verge'' won five Webby Awards for the year 2012 including awards for Best Writing (Editorial), Best Podcast for ''The Vergecast'', Best Visual Design, Best Consumer Electronics Site, and Best Mobile News App. History Origins Between March and April 2011, up to nine of ''Engadget''s writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget site. The other ...
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League Of Legends Championship Series
The League Championship Series (LCS) was the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada. The esports Sports league, league was run by Riot Games and had anywhere from eight to 10 teams. Each annual season of competition was divided into two splits, spring and summer, which concluded with a double-elimination tournament between the top teams. At the end of the season, the winner, runners-up and third-place team of the summer playoffs qualified for the annual League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship. Established in 2013, the league was initially split into two regions: the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS) and the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). The NA LCS featured eight teams, which were determined via a promotion and relegation system. In 2015, the league expanded to ten teams. In 2018, the NA LCS shifted to a franchise system with ten permanent teams, ...
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TSM League Of Legends Division
The ''League of Legends'' division of TSM was a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in the League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada, from 2013 to 2023. The organization sold their LCS franchise slot in 2023. Established in 2011, the ''League of Legends'' division was the founding division of Team SoloMid. The team formed from a group of players that represented the community of the online ''League of Legends'' blog SoloMid.net, which was founded by brothers Dan Dinh and Andy "Reginald" Dinh. TSM was one of the founding members of the LCS and won the inaugural NA LCS championship. They won five more LCS titles from 2014 to 2017, including three consecutive titles: Summer 2016, Spring 2017, and Summer 2017. Their seventh LCS title came in Summer 2020. Internationally, TSM has taken part in a total two Mid-Season Invitationals and eight League of Legends ...
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NuckleDu
Du Dang (born May 12, 1996), more commonly known by his nickname NuckleDu, is an American fighting game player known for playing Guile and Decapre in Ultra Street Fighter IV, Guile and Zangief in Street Fighter X Tekken, and Guile and Rainbow Mika in Street Fighter V. NuckleDu was ranked as the 13th best player in Ultra Street Fighter IV by EventHubs, and was ranked at #19 in the previous year and #32 in 2013. In Street Fighter V, he was undeniably the most successful player in the latter half of Season 1. Gaming career NuckleDu is one of the best players in the United States, and has multiple major tournaments victories. In 2012 he qualified for the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Grand Finals through the New York City qualifier while netting 13th place being sponsored by Empire Arcadia at the time. He was invited for 2013's Capcom Cup for the Street Fighter X Tekken event in which he received fifth place, being defeated by Justin Wong in Winners and Dexter "Tampa Bison" Jam ...
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Yahoo News
Yahoo News (stylized as Yahoo! News) is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo. The site was created by Yahoo software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, ''USA Today'', CNN and BBC News. In 2000, Yahoo News launched pages tracking the content on the site that was most viewed and most shared by email. The "most emailed" page in particular was noted as an innovation in online news aggregation. Yahoo News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges. By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time ...
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Valorant Champions Tour
The ''Valorant'' Champions Tour (VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game ''Valorant'' organised by Riot Games, the game's developers. The series runs multiple events throughout each season, culminating in ''Valorant'' Champions, the top-level event of the tour. The VCT was announced in 2020, with its inaugural season taking place in 2021. History 2021–2022: Open-qualifiers era In November 2020, Riot Games announced the first ''Valorant'' Champions Tour, a tournament series divided into three tiers: Challengers, Masters, and Champions. Challengers would act as the lowest tier, split into seven regions: North America, Brazil, Latin America (Hispanic America), EMEA, Southeast Asia (later included South Asia and Oceania, become to Asia-Pacific), Korea, Japan. Teams that advance past Challengers would move on to Masters, where teams would not be divided by regions anymore, and the top 16 teams from Masters would move on to Champions, the final ...
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Upcomer
Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. is a Canadian digital media company specializing in video game journalism. Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Menashe Kestenbaum, the company owned the websites ''Destructoid'' and ''Escapist Magazine'' from 2014 to September 2022, as well the gaming convention Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX). The company went public on the TSX Venture Exchange in October 2018. In January 2020, the company's listing moved to the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company was also trading on the Nasdaq from April 2021 to October 2023. Enthusiast Gaming owns a number of websites and runs an annual convention in Toronto. Brands Websites * ''DiabloII Net & Wiki'' (acquired 2018) * ''Gaming Street'' (founded 2019) * ''Planet Destiny'' (acquired 2019) * Steel Media (''Pocket Gamer'') (acquired 2019) * The Sims Resource (acquired 2019) * Omnia Media (acquired 2020) * Vedatis (''Icy Veins'') (acquired 2021) * Tabwire (''Tabstats'') (acquired 2021) * ''GameKnot'' (acquired 20 ...
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The Esports Observer
This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications, Advance Publications Inc. Local media groups The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local Advance Media New York *''The Post-Standard'' (Syracuse, New York) **Syracuse.com **NYup.com ***New York Cannabis Insider **''Central New York Magazine'' Advance Ohio *''The Plain Dealer'' (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com Alabama Media Group *AL.com and The Lede **''The Birmingham News'' (Birmingham, Alabama) **''The Huntsville Times'' (Huntsville, Alabama) **''Press-Register'' (Mobile, Alabama) *Alabama Education Lab *Red Clay Media **It's a Southern Thing **This is Alabama **People of Alabama MassLive Media *''The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), The Republican'' (Springfield, Massachusetts) / MassLive.com MLive Media Group *MLive.com **''The Ann Arbor News'' (Ann Arbor, Michigan) **''Bay City Times'' (Bay City, Michigan) **''The Flint Journal'' (Flint, Michigan) **''Grand Rapids Pre ...
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Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn
Sasha Hostyn (born December 1993), also known by her username Scarlett, is a Canadian professional video game player. She is most well known for playing ''StarCraft II'', and is the first woman to win a major ''StarCraft II'' tournament. She has also played ''Dota 2''. Personal life Hostyn grew up in Kingston, Ontario, and played games as a hobby during school and began to enter tournaments in 2011, leading to her career as a professional player. Hostyn is a transgender woman, and has said that her gender identity has "absolutely no relevance" to how she plays and that she has "always tried to make it a complete non-issue". Career ''StarCraft II'' Hostyn became prominent in the ''StarCraft II'' scene in 2012 when she beat a number of highly ranked professionals at an event in Las Vegas. In 2013, she climbed the global ''StarCraft II'' rankings to rank 21 and placed second at NorthCon. By mid-2014, Hostyn had taken first place in seven tournaments, making her the second highes ...
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