Category: Opinion
Caedrel’s top 5 players to watch at Worlds 2020
The League of Legends World Championship (Worlds) group stages are well underway. Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont, pro LEC Jungler […]
October 6, 2020
LEC ends Saudi partnership with NEOM following community backlash
UPDATE (July 30th 2020): Riot Games’ LEC has ended its partnership with NEOM in less than 24 hours […]
July 30, 2020
Finding the courage to speak out about harassment in esports: Opinion & list of UK-focused accusations
Image source: Oleg Laptev, Unsplash.com Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco offers his take on the disturbing spate […]
July 3, 2020
Drawing the curtain: LionsCreed, Esports Scotland and making DMs public to seek the truth in esports
Photo by weatherbox from FreeImages Contains affiliate links This week, UK esports org LionsCreed published a series of […]
June 4, 2020
Book review: ‘This is esports (and how to spell it)’ by Paul ‘Redeye’ Chaloner
British host Paul ‘Redeye’ Chaloner is one of the biggest personalities in esports, and if you follow him […]
May 27, 2020
11 conference panels to look out for at this week’s ESI Digital Summit
Image credit: Jak Howard/Esports Insider on Flickr On Tuesday May 26th and Wednesday 27th this week, the good folk over at […]
May 25, 2020
What they don’t tell you about journalism: My approach to being harassed, threatened or manipulated into not running news
As it’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco pens some honest thoughts about one […]
May 19, 2020
EU Masters main event preview: How will UK League of Legends teams Fnatic Rising and BT Excel get on in Europe?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest and greatest European Regional League (ERL)-based competition! Beginning on April 22nd, […]
April 19, 2020
Overreactions (UKLC week 7): Enclave Gaming are the second best team, how BT Excel wins Worlds and why Shikari is Luke Skywalker
Welcome back to the final week, the best week ever of the undisputed best league in the world: […]
March 21, 2020
Overreactions (week 6): George Michael teaches us a forgotten lesson, why the bottom three teams should look to Sardinia for inspiration and Bravado is the greatest player ever
You would think after 6 weeks of the UKLC and constantly prattling on about ‘academy killers’, the author […]
March 15, 2020
Overreactions (week 5): the UKLC casters are losing it, Enclave should sign a football manager and why Efias’ Bard play shows the UK should be importing more talent like him
Welcome, welcome! Back for another addition of overreactions so soon? *morbid laughter* You poor soul, you. Even our […]
March 8, 2020
Overreactions (UKLC week 4): Faker is the Korean Erixen, xMatty is literally Aphelios and how Demise can easily make playoffs
“Oh, you’re here again huh,” said Megalodontus, bleary eyed and weary of soul, as he dragged himself up […]
February 29, 2020