E-sports
Electronic sports (or esports) is a term for organized video game competitions, especially between professionals. The most common video game genres associated with electronic sports are real-time strategy, fighting, first-person shooter, and multiplayer online battle arena. Tournaments such as the World Cyber Games, the Evolution Championship Series, and the Intel Extreme Masters provide both live broadcasts of the competition, and cash prizes to competitors.
3 Things To Look Forward To At The Respawn Cup
With now just two days to go for the tournament we are super excited about the tournament and can’t wait to see teams taking each other on. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to attend the event here are 3 other reasons to look forward to the Respawn Cup. 1. Prizes In a post yesterday I wrote a little about what the teams are competing for and what is at stake for them. Here is just a quick recap of just that- Winner will take home a Rs. 10,000 gift voucher along with the Super cool trophy First Runner Up will take home a Rs. 5,000 gift voucher. Other Goodies: First 5 teams to register at the venues and gamers who socialize about the event like mad get Steam Wallet codes worth $5. 2. Competing Against Top Teams Since this is an invite-only event, you’re going to get so...
Respawn Cup: What’s up For Grabs?
We are nearing the day of the Respawn Cup ‘Counter Strike Global Offensive tournament’. And with just a couple of days left, teams are signing up fast. We’ve given you a little insight about the cafes that are hosting the event, we’ve mentioned about the shoutcaster for the tournament and a few teams that are taking part. Now its time to let you guys in on what goodies you have a chance of winning! You see that awesome trophy up there, that’s for the winning team. Along with that we’ve got gift vouchers for Rs. 10,000 and 5,000 for the winners and first runner up respectively. Then there are Steam Vouchers for teams that show up first and gamers that go overboard promoting the event. We’re giving everything we got for this one as we’ve got a ...
Meet A Few Teams of The Respawn Cup
Are you guys ready to for ultimate face-off between some of the top CS GO teams in India? We are nearing the date of the event as teams are signing up to prove their dominance. Today we are featuring two teams that we feel could make it all the way. First off we have Team Brutality which hail from Bombay and compete in various e-Sport events across the country. Team Brutality Members Ankit ‘Karma’ Panth. Aakash ‘RiX’ More. Ayush ‘astaRR’ Deora. Arun ‘Kundya’ Kandpal. Jigar ‘sMx’ Mehta. And reigning out of Bangalore we have with us Team Virtual Impact who too have known to hold their own in battles. Team Virtual Impact Members Sunil Suresh Prashanth Babu Temmulen Battulga Enkhtaivan TBD 5th player If you have a team a...
Meet Our Shoutcaster For The ReSpawn Cup
Hey Gamers, We are working on our first Counter Strike Global Offensive tournament with the folks over at NVIDIA and ASUS playing a huge role in making this event a reality. We’ve got a dedicated gamer to do the shoutcasting for us–Sudhen. Going under the moniker ‘bleh’, Sudhen has been a keen fps gamer for more than 12 years, having dabbled in Quake, Unreal Tournament and of course CS 1.6, and now mainly CS:GO. One amongst the handful of CS casters in India, he started with ClanWars Season 3 and has has casted for 2 more major events in India; ESWC India LAN Qualifiers as well as GamesArena in Bangalore very recently. Well there was a little insight into what we have in store for you guys. To know more about the event you can click here
Team Elunes – An Indian E-Sports Team Managed by AFK Gaming.
AFK Gaming has lifted the curtain on a new Indian E-Sports team under its direct management – Team Elunes. Under this association, players will receive the benefits of professional management and a content creation team. Meanwhile sponsors receive the benefit of dealing directly with a registered entity (AFK Gaming Pvt. Ltd.) adding a layer of accountability and reliability given AFK Gaming’s track record over the last two years. The team is currently sponsored by Cooler Master. Roster -The team includes a Dota 2 and a Counter Strike Global Offensive squad, both of which are considered to be the current best teams in their respective spheres in India. The team’s manager is former NeckBREAK eSports manager : Siddharth ‘Zo9i’ Nayyar “I’m really happy...
Sneak Peek Into The ReSpawn Cup Locations
Hey Gamers, We are kickstarting 2015, quite literally with our first Counter Strike Global Offensive tournament with the folks over at NVIDIA and ASUS are playing a huge role in making this happen. This event is going to take place at two venues simultaneously, i.e Bangalore and Mumbai. We’ve got pretty much the best locations for these two cities and are sparing no expense when it comes to giving you the best gaming experience possible. We’ve got Bangalore’s League of Extraordinary Gamers (LXG) which is NVIDIA’s very first Experience Zone in the country. And for the second venue we’ve got Mumbai’s Gear Up Gaming Cafe which is NVIDIA’s second Experience Zone. Well there was a little insight into what we have in store for you guys. To know more about the ...
Respawn Cup Reveal Trailer
The first edition of Respawn Cup is a fun filled Counter Strike: Global offensive tournament in Mumbai and Bengaluru. It is an invite only tournament so Gamers can sign up to register for the Tournament. To get started visit www.gamingcentral.in/respawncup
Smite 2015 Prize Pool Reaches Over 2.13 Million Dollars!
A tweet by Stewart Chisam, president of Hi-Rez Studios, announced that the prize pool for Smite’s World Championship has reached over 2.13 million dollars, surpassing League of Legends’ 2014 Championship’s prize pool. Crowdsourcing has propelled @SmiteGame past LoL’s 2014 Championship to become 3rd largest prize pool in eSports. pic.twitter.com/0gVlR4XTr4 — HiRezStew (@schisam) December 23, 2014 Unlike the League of Legends tournament, Smite’s World Championship utilized crowd-sourcing, donating portions of proceeds from in-game items towards the prize pool. Smite’s World Championship will be held in Atlanta from January 9 to 11 of next year. Smite is developed by Hi-Rez Studios and available for PC and soon to be released on Xbox One.
NVIDIA Experience Zone comes to Mumbai
The second NVIDIA Experience zone is now at Gear Up Gaming Cafe, Mumbai. NVIDIA has launched the initiative in Mumbai in Powai which will see the transformation of the top gaming cafes into NVIDIA Experience Zones in 8 major cities in India. In these cafes gamers can now experience high end PC gaming on the best and latest hardware around. We think that this is a great initiative by NVIDIA India for converting a regular gaming cafe into the Experience Zone and turning the 5,000 square foot cyber cafe into a place where gamers can experience high-end PC games such as Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Titanfall in all its brilliance. Earlier, the first of its type was unveiled at Bangalore’s League of Extraordinary Gamers (LXG). At this zone you’ll find a ...
Twitch to Acquire GoodGame Agency
Video-game-streaming service Twitch just announced that it will acquire GoodGame, a full-service agency dedicated to serving the needs to pro-gamers and brands looking to be involved in the eSports industry. GoodGame has built a business over the last 10 years by sponsoring its own competitive esports teams, connecting brands with popular third-party teams, creating viral content for brands looking to market to gaming enthusiasts, and more. “We’ve been responsible for funneling more than $10 million toward players, teams, tournaments, and other parts of the esports ecosystem,” writes GoodGames CEO Alex Garfield in a letter on the company’s site explaining the sale. The move lets Twitch capture more of the value generated by the growing esports industry, which has already been a huge key to...
YouPorn To Sponsor An eSports
YouPorn, an online porn website has decided to sponsor an eSports team to take part in professional tournaments. A Spain –based team has been fortunate enough to receive this sponsorship contract. The team will now be called Team YP and will play in this weekend’s Gamergy eSports competition in Madrid. While the team will be playing Dota 2 in this weekend’s Gamergy tournament, five man team — Play2Win was founded in July — they also play games like League of Legends,Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft on its team website. Play2Win’s sponsorship agreement with YouPorn lasts for six months, according to a release from the company. “We’re so psyched to finally make our official entry into gaming and eSports,” said Brad Burns, YouPor...
League of Legends Merchandise Store is Coming Soon
League of Legends has long possessed an absence of any kind of official merchandising; Riot Games usually left their fan-base to distribute all LoL themed goodies themselves. Now, finally, Riot Games is releasing an official League of Legends Merchandise store! The Riot Merch store will offer world shipping and a variety of goodies available to purchase. When asked about what we can expect in the store, Riot Bradmore stated: “We’ll have a limited collection of items during beta including T-shirts, hoodies, collectibles, posters, plush and accessories. We’ll have the Worlds Track Jacket at beta launch as well. Over time we will be exploring additional items and expect new products/categories to come into the store in 2015.”. The Riot Merch store will be properly released Soon, so expect to ...