With a total prize pool of over $10 million Dota 2’s The International 4 tournament is the most important event in E-Sports history. Given this huge success, Valve is taking into consideration the possibility of creating something similar for another one of their games, Counter-Strike. Although the FPS is not as popular as it once was, CS did make a comeback with ...
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Women excluded from Hearthstone e-sports tournament
A Finnish e-sports tournament of Heartstone has become the center of a massive controversy after advertising separate categories for men and women. The Assembly Summer 2014 tournament is the national qualifier for the men’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft IeSF World Championship tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan in November. The World Championship will also host male-only competitions in three other games: Starcraft ...
Read More »Tickets for The International 2014 DOTA 2 event sold out within an hour
Valve announced one week ago that the biggest Dota 2 event of the year will be held at the Key Arena in Seattle and will take place between July 18th and the 21st. The 10.000 tickets that were put on sale for the championship were already gone within an hour. The news comes directly from Valve’s Vice President of Marketing, ...
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