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New high school leagues Pro athletes don’t often start training in college or beyond — they begin younger. Doesn’t it make sense that esports pros start training earlier, too? As Harris put it, college is too late to start! He announced that starting next year, for the first time ever high school students will have an officially sanctioned esports league. High schoolers can take their passion to play and join a school team that can compete toward state finals just like traditional sports do. Playvs and the National Federation of State High School Associations are building this league that will premier in February 2019. And Harris was pleased to announce that Georgia will be one of the first states to implement this, and SMITE itself was selected as one of the few games for the inaugural season. We’ll be hearing a lot more, “Sorry mom, I can’t study right now — the team is counting on me!” … [Read more...] about Hi-Rez Expo: Esports adds college varsity national championships and high school leagues

While the joke about Riot Games actually just makes 1 game has been around for some time, rumors of a new IP has been swirling around since Greg Street joined the company from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team. Recently, a new tweet giving the biggest hint of a new project surfaced, with Riot Games looking to fill up several art positions. The tweet came from Katie Chironis, a Senior Narrative Designer at the League of Legends developer. … [Read more...] about – League of Legends studio is hiring for new “cool game”

Yes, Nate Nanzer officially announced last week that he’ll be leaving the Overwatch League for what has been confirmed to be a position to help with competitive Fortnite according to a statement from Epic Games. Pete Vlastelica, President and CEO of Activision Blizzard Esports Leagues, has stepped in as Nanzer’s replacement. … [Read more...] about Overwatch League commissioner jumps ship for Fortnite esports

League of Legends is getting ready to drop it’s 8.11 Patch, and with it comes an absolute slew of changes. 8.11 is a part of an on-going multi-patch pass at adjusting role tweaks and game pacing. Mages were dealt with 8.9, jungle in 8.10, and 8.11’s focus is marksman and jungle changes. Later in the 8.11 cycle we’ll also see Pyke, the Bloodharbor Ripper (who is totally a support, honest. He has an execute and everything) and with him will come a temporary return to Butcher’s Bridge in ARAM. However, before we get into the meat and potatoes of some of these important changes, let’s take a look at some ARAM updates. There are permanent, quality-of-life changes and temporary gameplay changes coming to the Howling Abyss. A huge one is the “Available Champions Pool”. It will smooth out, perhaps, the Champion Select Experience, by letting players put those champs in the potential selection pool, without having to wait to the last second and re-roll … [Read more...] about League of Legends: 8.11 Patch Notes Highlights

But let’s talk some more positivity! Leona, my dear sweet Leona saw a slight upgrade, with Eclipse having a Cooldown Reduction at higher ranks. I max Eclipse early anyway, so this is beautiful (14 seconds ⇒ 14/13/13/11/10 seconds). Sion has an interesting change, with his Soul Furnace giving a little more health now. The Maximum Health gained from enemies goes from 3 to 4, and larger enemies now go from 10 to 15 health gained. Nautilus‘ Titan’s Wrath changed a little as well. The overall base shield was reduced at early levels (65/70/75/80/85 ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100), and the Shield Scaling also got lowered just a little (9/11/13/15/17% maximum health ⇒ 9/10/11/12/13% maximum health). These were already incredibly strong in the early game if you ask me. While the duration went down to 6 seconds (from 10), the insane 18-second cooldown also lowered (down to 12). With the 18 second cooldown, it’s necessary for it to … [Read more...] about League of Legends – 8.16 Patch Notes Discussion