Category Archive for "Dota 2"

Interview: Esports Insider MD Sam Cooke on ESI Birmingham, esports industry developments and advice for businesses

May 24th, 2018

Esports business conference ESI Birmingham takes place this week (Thursday May 24th) one day before the UK's first Dota 2 Major kicks off. We chatted to Sam Cooke, MD and co-founder of esports business publication and organisers of the conference, Esports Insider, to find out more about it, what to expect from ESI London later in…

York beats Lancaster University in Roses Esports 2018 varsity

May 21st, 2018

Established in 2013, Roses Esports began as an unofficial competition between Fragsoc and LUGES, the gaming societies of York and Lancaster Universities respectively. After several years of trials, esports was eventually added to the official Roses line-up in 2016, with Lancaster taking the series 2-1 to earn 4 points for their university. Things did not go…

Esports business conference ESI Birmingham joins the UK Dota 2 Major

May 4th, 2018

ESL UK and Esports Insider today announced they are partnering up for the delivery of ESI Birmingham, a new esports business symposium. The event will take place on May 24th at Arena Birmingham, the day before the quarter-finals begin at ESL One Birmingham - the UK's very first Dota 2 Major. The symposium will feature…

The UK gets its first ESL One Dota 2 Major, which has already broken ticket sales records

March 13th, 2018

UPDATE (March 16th): ESL One Birmingham has become the fastest-selling ESL Dota 2 Major ever. Tickets went on sale on Thursday March 15th at 11am, with 1,000 tickets selling within the first five minutes, and the whole pre-allocation of tickets selling in six hours. ESL senior product VP Ulrich Schulze said: "No Dota 2 event has ever…

Arrow League’s 10th Dota 2 season and inaugural Rocket League season get underway

February 15th, 2018

Arrow League’s 10th Dota 2 season and inaugural Rocket League season got off to a flying start, with teams up and down the UK vying to become the greatest university team in their chosen field. Declan Murphy provides a week one match report. In Dota 2, newcomers Imperial brushed aside their opposition Herts White with…

UK Masters announces Weekly Cups in PUBG, LoL & Dota 2

October 25th, 2017

The UK Masters is back with a twist - it's returning with a series of new Weekly Cups. There will be open cups every week for hit game of the moment PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), as well as classic MOBAs Dota 2 and League of Legends. The UK Masters team described the weekly cups in this…

Now QPR and AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes is getting involved in esports

August 11th, 2017

Yesterday it was revealed that Arsenal's majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is forming an esports team - now another owner of an English football club is getting in on the action. QPR owner Tony Fernandes - who is also group CEO of AirAsia - has put out a video backing his new esports team. The AirAsia Allstars Esports Club will be…

Britain’s Machine, ODPixel & Pyrion Flax join The International 2017 broadcast team

July 22nd, 2017

Three well-known British gaming personalities have been added to the Dota 2 International 7 broadcast line-up. Caster Alex "Machine" Richardson (left) will be hosting the International's group stage, plus caster Owen "ODPixel" Davies (centre) and content creator Ted "Pyrion Flax" Forsyth (right) have also joined the team. American Sean "Day9" Plott has been announced as the official host…

‘I’ll miss you all’ – ReDeYe won’t be hosting the Dota 2 International this year

June 27th, 2017

One of the UK's most well-known esports hosts, Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner, won't be hosting the Dota 2 International this year. Paul has hosted the competition - which currently has the world's biggest esports prize pool of over $20m - for the past two years. He posted a Twitlonger explaining why he won't be there this year…

epic.LAN 21: Which teams won and how were viewer numbers?

June 22nd, 2017

epic.LAN 21 finished last weekend and featured everything from beach parties to charity pie faces alongside the esports tournaments. Craig Robinson takes a look back at the action. Face-Strike: Pie Offensive Starting with the most important part of the event, epic.LAN esports manager Tom "Gumpster" Gumbleton and RNR Esports MD Adam "Blanks" Heath got pied in…

Category Archives: Dota 2

Interview: Esports Insider MD Sam Cooke on ESI Birmingham, esports industry developments and advice for businesses

York beats Lancaster University in Roses Esports 2018 varsity

Esports business conference ESI Birmingham joins the UK Dota 2 Major

The UK gets its first ESL One Dota 2 Major, which has already broken ticket sales records

Arrow League’s 10th Dota 2 season and inaugural Rocket League season get underway

UK Masters announces Weekly Cups in PUBG, LoL & Dota 2

Now QPR and AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes is getting involved in esports

‘I’ll miss you all’ – ReDeYe won’t be hosting the Dota 2 International this year

epic.LAN 21: Which teams won and how were viewer numbers?

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