Premier league matchday 9 highlights

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

I’m not going to focus on every single change that’s in the notes, because it’s 18 pages. Instead, I want to look at some of the most impactful/interesting to me as a player. However, every single Marksman had adjustments across the board to their base stats. All Marksman saw a 4 damage nerf and pushed that damage into their growth stat, but what this means that even the aggressive, non-marksmen champions won’t be chipped down by Marksmen attacks as quickly, giving those other champions more of a time to have their presence known in the lane. Hunter’s Machete also saw a base attack damage decrease, and a bonus attack speed increase at level 1, for those fun, happy jungler types. There’s also a new item in this update, the “Stormrazer”. It’s definitely built with the Marksman and damage Jungler in mind (hell, I could see it on melee mid/top laners too, it’s pretty damn strong). … [Read more...] about League of Legends: 8.11 Patch Notes Highlights

There are also some Rune Changes, focused on the Burst Runes that I want to highlight. The worst offenders are absolutely ruining the pacing of the game and the overall lethality of the Rune System/the game at large. So, here’s the list of the biggest and baddest that are getting changed: … [Read more...] about League of Legends – 8.16 Patch Notes Discussion