WICKED eSports have completed the signing of the former Meet Your Makers Counter-Strike team on the same day that they picked up the Warcraft III squad We Are Go. The former PGS team will have their debut for WICKED eSports this week at the ESWC Masters in Cheonan...more
The DTS CUP organisation confirmed on Sunday evening that Swedish duo SK Gaming and fnatic have decided not to attend the tournament in Ukraine, just like Team Alternate. Meanwhile, Spanish EPS champions Ledpc have confirmed their attendance...more
WCG and KODE5 holders mTw have put an end to all speculation concerning their future by signing a two-year contract extension with the German-based organisation. The new deal will see the Danish stars representing mTw until 2011...more
Today, it all comes to an end in Northrend and Azeroth: The competition for the six spots in each Battle.Net Proladder will only last until 21:00 CET. Due to a problem with being up-to-date at the official homepage, readmore.eu steps in and delivers results, ranking updates and tendencies...more
Team Giants opens a new Warcraft 3 squad including the Finnish duo Juha-Matti 'Satiini' Bäckström and Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen. Both have been inactive for some time but achieved several good results in the last years. Elfittaja is currently taking a top6 spot in the Battle.Net Proladder; Giants stated plans for joining the WC3L and NGL in the future. ..more
In a statement released by Crack Clan, the British-based organisation have revealed that their bid to sign former Meet Your Makers Counter-Strike squad has been hijacked by an unnamed organisation...more
x6tence e-Sports Club have announced that Borja 'GuMmY' González and Alberto 'neptuNo' Molinillo have both agreed to join the team. The pair have been brought in as x6tence plan to mount a serious challenge on all fronts...more
In order to focus our editorial, tech and product management forces on our core product, readmore.de, we have decided to discontinue readmore.eu. readmore.eu staff will only comment in exceptional cases in forums and comments...more
Although the regional organizer of the ESWC Masters Asia announced to determine the last four participants in a qualifier, they have given away direct invitations to Jang 'Moon' JaeHo and Du-Seop 'WhO' Chang. With fourteen known participants, only two more players from the Korean qualifier will join the list of attendees...more
Spb.Islanders have accused Virtus.pro member Ivan "Xenitron" Totskiy of cheating in the match between the two teams for the Russian DTS CUP qualifier for. Virtus.pro's 2-1 success saw them qualify for the Ukrainian competition and Islanders are now branding Totskiy 'a cheater'...more
Just a few minutes ago the Swedish eSports page rakaka.se reported that the former MeetYourMakers team will join and sign a new contract with Crack Clan. In the same moment the former lineup which was build by Finish players has to leave the organization right away. Already at the ESWC Masters Asia Neo and his mates will play for Crack Clan...more
A new political discussion about the influence of computer games on the youth's social development was raised after the school shooting tragedy in the south of Germany in March. The Intel Friday Night Game, one of Germany's most popular offline event series, in Stuttgart, which was supposed to take place shortly after the tragedy was canceled. Now the ESL make amends for Stuttgart and announces IFNG Karlsruhe...more
As our colleges from HLTV.org announced, XLBet ends the cooperation with Mirror due to the internal issues within the team. Already last weekend before the KODE5 qualifier in Denmark the team made headlines when it announced it won't attend the regional final since the organization owns its players salaries from an unknown number of months...more
Jos 'ret' de Kroon just won the first ever Zotac Cup in StarCraft history with taking down Protoss player Jian Fei 'IefNaij' Wang in the grand final. Kroon saves himself 100 Euro in prize money and talks to readmore.eu about his performance and the high skill level of Chinese players...more
A couple of weeks ago, eStars Seoul already was able to fascinate the community with the announcement of a top class StarCraft tournament, featuring legends such as Boxer and NaDa. Later, the organizers put another log on the fire and published the Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 participants list, both including the best teams and players from all around the world. Now it is time for you to vote!..more
After a short period of inactivity, Tomi 'lurrpis' Kovanen will return to the circuit as a member of US-based Team EG, filling the spot of Corey 'hanes' Hanes, who will leave the team. In order to practise with the team, Kovanen is about to move to Dallas, TX and will assume practise within the next few days. The team will have its first LAN appearances during ESWC Korea (2 - 6 May) and KODE5 Global (8 - 9 May)...more
Made in Brazil have secured a spot at the KODE5 Global Finals after winning the Brazilian qualifier in a dramatic final against FireGamers. mibr, who had come from the Upper Bracket, needed just one map to win the tie and, after losing on de_nuke, disposed of FG on de_inferno to be crowned champions of Brazil...more
Ledpc defeated x6tence eSports Club 2-0 to win the fourth season of ESL's Spanish EPS league, a match played at the Murcia Lan Party. Before the EPS Grand Final, the Catalunya team defeated Comunidad Valenciana, also with a score of 2-0...more
One of the last qualifiers for KODE5 has just started. Mousesports, who failed to book a place to Moscow last weekend, courtesy of SK Gaming, will now try to secure passage into the Global Finals for the third time this season. The German side seems to have an easy task here after Mirror decided to miss the event...more
During a show on ESL TV, Marc 'yAwS' Förster announced his decision to retire from the active scene at the end of the EPS Season 14. This is the last chance to show his potential and he is willing to attend the finals in summer. Robert 'Perdita' Rust interviewed the 19-year-old and translated the details about his decision...more
In an interview conducted by ESBR, former Made in Brazil captain Carlos “KIKOOOO“ Segal has commented on his exit from the team, his criticism of Guilherme "spacca" Spacca and what went wrong at the Extreme Masters Global Finals. He also explains that he was given the opportunity to stay on with mibr...more
They definitely put up a nice show: inviting journalists from all over Europe, dressing up some girls in pink shirts and a whole lot of sweet talk. They promised "a new business model" for eSports and, as the dust has settled, it becomes obvious how it's supposed to work out. David 'Craven' Abel breaks down what Pink Zinic is about and shares his thoughts. ..more
With the fall of MeetYourMakers and Frontspawn, Grubby and his team mates announced to stay together. Today, they will officially join the forces of Evil Geniuses together with their manager Cassandra. The announcement was made by Evil Geniuses' owner, Alex Garfield, on the Live on Three show, hosted by Marcus ‘djWHEAT’ Graham.
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KODE5 has confirmed that Evil Geniuses' American squad will represent the United States of America at the Global Finals next month in Moscow. Danny 'fRoD' Montaner's team will fill the void created by Gravitas Gaming, who are no longer in attendance...more
According to readmore.de, Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst is planning to retire from the active Warcraft 3 business after the current ESL Pro Series Season 14. Rumors say, XlorD is not satisfied with the game anymore and won't continue to play after this EPS Season. Team Alternate team mate Marc 'yAwS' Förster already announced his plans for retirement yesterday...more
Today, the final list of participants for the ESWC Masters Asia was released. Although the company behind the ESWC went bankrupt, the tournament in Cheonan, South Korea, will take place from May 2 to 5. Because of ex-MYM and x3o cancelling their trip, Crack Clan and the unknown formation of Foreign Gaming will succeed...more
Times are tough for players without a home. This is barely a secret. What can a professional gamer do these days to pay the bills? There is one who sets an example: Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen started a blog, provides content and in turn builds his personal community. And there are plenty of reasons why every other gamer should do so too. David 'Craven' Abel analyzes the business aspects of this move and how it can be done...more
As expected, mousesports will try their luck in Copenhagen this weekend, at Denmark's KODE5 qualifier. The tournament has six teams registered so far, which will cross swords for one of the last spots at the Global Finals, taking place next month in Moscow...more
Former roccat manager Shayan "Shayan" Taleb has hit out at GamePlay for unpaid salaries to the team during its three-month stint with the Russian organisation. According to Taleb, GamePlay owe their former Counter-Strike team a figure in the region of €12,000...more
The European Nations Championship, or for short the ENC, which will kick off on April, 20th, starts already today on Tuesday with its first qualification matches. Some of the best Counter-Strike nations from Europe are set to participate in this event while Poland is one of the teams that are invited directly - now they announced their lineup...more
The American based organization Evil Geniuses just announced the addition of their first StarCraft squad in history. Featured are five players from the United States including two former World Cyber Games USA national champions, Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson and Dan "Nyoken" Eidson. EG states that this step was executed also in order to be prepared for Blizzard's upcoming, possible money-spinner, StarCraft 2. ..more
For now all rumors which called the World Cyber Games to be in financial troubles due to the issues with Samsung, should be proofed to be wrong as this morning the world's largest international video game competition and festival, has announced in total seven more games which will be featured in the WCG 2009. The grand final is set to take place in Chengdu, China from November 11th till 15th. ..more
