July 1st, 20151Modern Times Group (MTG) has signed an agreement to acquire 74% of Turtle Entertainment, the world’s largest esports company that operates under the well-known ESL brand. The ground breaking €78 million acquisition gives MTG - a non-esports based company, the majority of ownership.
June 26th, 20152Sovann "Skim" Kim, DotaBlast's liaison at ESL One Frankfurt, sat down for a chat with Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg, shortly before Team Secret's first games in the main event. zai talked about Team Secret's TI strategies, his role on the team and impact on drafts. The 17-year-old player singled out the flaws in the current Dota 2 scene and...
June 25th, 20151Sovann "Skim" Kim, DotaBlast's liaison at ESL One Frankfurt, had a chat with Per Anders Olsson "Pajkatt" Lille, shortly after Alliance's elimination from the tournament. Pajkatt talked about the ESL One format, Alliance's strats, The International, his expectations from the Majors, and the importance of friendship between team...
June 24th, 20150The two most prominent CIS teams - Team Empire and Virtus.Pro, will be facing off in a best-of-five show match later today, for a prize pool of $7500. The show match, hosted by Egaming Bets, will start at 17:00 CEST.
June 21st, 20152With incredibly impressive plays, Team Secret stormed their way through ESL One Frankfurt and claimed the championship title, after destroying Evil Geniuses, 3:1, in the Grand Finals. Evil Geniuses rose from the fourth place in the seeding bracket and took the second place at the main event.
June 21st, 20150In the first day of the ESL One Frankfurt main event, the top seeds from the tournament's seeding phase have prevailed over the bottom four teams. Virtus.Pro, Evil Geniuses, Invictus Gaming and Team Secret have advanced into the semifinals, while Alliance, ViCi Gaming, Cloud 9 and Fnatic have been eliminated.
June 18th, 20150The seeding phase for ESL One Frankfurt has concluded. Virtus.Pro placed first, followed by Team Secret, IG and EG. Virtus.Pro, Team Secret, Invictus Gaming, Evil Geniuses, Alliance, Cloud 9, ViCi Gaming and Fnatic will compete in the ESL One Frankfurt main event this weekend, June 20-21.
June 18th, 20150The ESL One Seeding Phase will take place today in a LAN setting in Frankfurt, Germany. Team Secret, Alliance, Evil Geniuses, Cloud 9, Fnatic, Invictus Gaming, Vici Gaming, and Virtus.Pro will compete to determine their seeding for the main event, which will take place between June 20-21.
June 17th, 20150Cloud 9 offlaner, Pittner "bOne7" Armand, will be unable to participate in the seeding phase of ESL One Frankfurt and will be replaced by Pascal "paS-" Lohmeier for that portion of the tournament only, as ESL One was not able to accommodate the team's request to allow bOne7 to play online.
June 15th, 20150The upcoming ESL One Frankfurt LAN playoffs and finals, scheduled to take place in Germany between June 20-21, will be held in open-air, due to a roof tear at the Commerzbank Arena.