The first-ever Vainglory World Championships happened this weekend where the top 12 teams from around the world took to the stage to battle it out for top honors. The entire event was streamed live on Twitch of course, and after all was said and done, Phoenix Armada from Korea came out on top, being the first world champions for Vainglory.
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Mobile eSports is still a young part of the entire eSports scene but it is growing. Amazon has announced today that they will be holding their first mobile eSports tournament next month called the Champions of Fire Invitational in Las Vegas. The prize pool? A cool $100,000, with 1st place cashing in $30,000. The official host of this tournament is actually the Amazon Appstore and the tournament as a whole will feature a variety of casual mobile games.
[PSA: Stream Starts Tomorrow] Red Bull announces the Return of Team Brawl: Hearthstone, begins November 18th
Red Bull has announced a new invite-only eSports tournament for Hearthstone called the Return of Team Brawl: Hearthstone which begins on November 18th, 2016 and lasts for two days. Since this is an invite-only event, fans of the teams or the game can tune in and watch as the matches take place over on Twitch.
Red Bull has announced a new invite-only eSports tournament for Hearthstone called the Return of Team Brawl: Hearthstone which begins on November 18th, 2016 and lasts for two days. Since this is an invite-only event, fans of the teams or the game can tune in and watch as the matches take place over on Twitch.
Kick9 picks the first mobile eSports team for the upcoming championships in China for MOBA Legends
Kick9 are the developers behind the recently released MOBA game called MOBA Legends. This particular game has already been a part of a few mobile eSports tournaments (weekly events) and now the championships are going to be held in China to see which team is the best this year in the MOBA Legends league.
The popular mobile MOBA game Vainglory got updated today to version 1.21 and with this update comes the debut of a new hero for players to use, new skins for a few heroes, as well as an additional set of quests that are divided up into four different types: Daily, Hero, Sequences and Community.
While eSports, mobile or otherwise, usually revolves around MOBA, RTS, FPS, and TCG types of games, and even PvP in MMORPGs, there’s always room for another game or two. However, endless jumpers isn’t the genre that would normally come to mind as a new eSports game but Doodle Jump is planning to do just that.
As eSports continue to rise in popularity, it should come to the surprise of no one that a site focusing on the topic, namely PvPlive.net, would now be releasing an Android app. In their new app, they cover things such as scores (including live scores that are up to the second), highlights, analysis, and so on.
eSports as an industry has come a long way in the last 10 years, growing a lot in size in pretty much every way possible including with the creation of mobile eSports tournaments and games. Needless to say there are plenty of avenues in which to keep up with all the goings-on when it comes to eSports. Yahoo has launched their own mobile application dedicated to eSports coverage.
There are only a few applications for mobile devices in that ‘instant streaming’ category of things. One of those is Periscope, where you start up the application on your phone or tablet and using your devices and the Periscope app, stream whatever you are doing in real life to people who feel like tuning in to watch. This can be anything from event coverage and interviews at shows like E3, down to watching someone eat french fries.