EPL S5 and S6 confirmed exclusive to YouTube, $1M USD prize pool per season, S5 Final at Verizon Theatre in Dallas from 3rd to 4th of June https://t.co/pza7Ch74Jn
— Brad Carr (@bcarr) January 13, 2017
Category Archives: esports
2017 is proving to be an intriguing start, as far as esports go.
Hooooo-lyyyyy shieeeeet.
I mean, just look at the esports news dated today(-ish):
- Azubu acquired Hitbox and is planning on ruining it later on this year
- Immortals got an investment from Lionsgate via a dude what spent time in a federal pokey
- The Miami Heat have thrown a bunch of money at Misfits, who’ve already started spending it (( capital S usage trigger warning ))
- Newbee launches a second squad called Newbee Boss with no-one special on it, at all
- Torbull rends his garments on the ESEA forums, providing a more wholesome timeline regarding the data breach
Tonight I’ll be recording the first test run of the new Monday episode of the lowercase esports podcast for February, and I’ll try to offer a summary of the recent past and upcoming events of Dota 2 as well as this week’s episode of the Esports Morning podcast with keekerdc.
Valve vs. bad parents, round 4, pre-game
While we were all going a little nuts over the CSGO drama involving PEA management/owners against its players, it seems that the same lawyers who’ve been on a crusade against Valve for the past few months filed another complaint in US federal court.
TopClassActions.com’s summary of the latest complaint seems to focus on Valve’s supposed violations of state underage gambling law. The class in this suite are the parents of minors who were given money to spend on the Steam Marketplace on skins, but did not know that they were funding their child’s intent to gamble via skins purchases.
I’m looking at the complaint documents now, and it seems like the complaint is written to mislead the court to which it was filed with regards to Valve’s responsibility in these matters. Valve’s initial response to this particular complaint seems to be encased in its motion to compel arbitration, per the Steam Subscriber Agreement.
As we’re presently in the midst of the holiday season, I imagine the matter is in a holding pattern for now. I’m looking over the documents filed to this point thanks to internet cool person keekerdc, but I imagine there’ll be copies floating out there eventually, with more to come when the holding pattern breaks in January.
See, I just knew the week between Christmas and New Year’s was going to deliver on some spicy esports drama. More to come.