The International Esports Federation (IESF) announced Monday the line-up of competitive game titles it will use during its 2025 season. This year’s tournaments will feature Valve's tactical team-based shooter Counter-Strike 2, its MOBA Dota 2, Konami's popular football game eFootball,...

5 hours ago · Official Announcement. The Esports Advocate (TEA), the leading destination for esports business and complementary gaming news, proudly announces that award-winning esports journalist Kevin Hitt has joined as editor-at-large, effective immediately.. Kevin is a seasoned journalist and editorial leader with a distinguished career spanning top publications such as Sports Business Journal, The ...

2 days ago · Following Nova Esports win as the Honor of Kings Invitational Season 3 Champions, Level Infinite (a division of Tencent) announced the full competitive roadmap for the remainder of 2025.The announcement was made on Saturday by …

Feb 25, 2025 · Implications for Industry Stakeholders. For investors, sponsors, and industry executives, the strategic selection of titles at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games reflects broader trends in regional market dynamics and broadcast optimization. The exclusion of Dota 2 signals a calculated move to streamline production and maximize viewership engagement, aligning with the stringent broadcasting ...

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Jun 11, 2024 · Riot Games announced plans on Monday for a major overhaul to the global ecosystem for League of Legends Esports in 2025.. That overhaul—which a Riot rep. told The Esports Advocate in a media briefing on Thursday–is somewhat informed and inspired by what it has learned from the Valorant esports ecosystem—includes an all-new event at the beginning of the season, a consolidation of the top ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Riot Games announced that it is making changes to its ERLs (European Regional Leagues) system for League of Legends Esports in 2025.At a glance, those new changes will include allowing more flexibility for tournament organizers, relaxed rules on broadcasting, no more mandatory substitute rules for players/teams, an option for tournament organizers to increase the number of locally trained ...

Dec 30, 2024 · A Riot Games representative told The Esports Advocate on Monday that Game Changers will not be a part of the Esports World Cup and that the inclusion of other Riot competitive titles in the eight-week event to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, beginning in early July 2025 are still being negotiated.. The comments from Riot are in response to TEA’s questions to the company about a report from ...

Sep 24, 2024 · The Esports Awards announced that it will host a second broadcast in November to deliver the remainder of its awards categories for 2024. The first awards were given out at a lavish event at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the end of August. Those first awards in Saudi Arabia were the beginning of a three year deal between the Esports World Cup Foundation and the Esports ...

Nov 20, 2024 · With the conclusion of the BLAST R6 2024 season (at Montreal Major won by Brazilian esports organization w7m Esports), the league revealed some details on what the ecosystem under its ongoing partnership with tournament organizer BLAST for Rainbow Six Siege esports will look like in 2025.. The next season will kick off in May 2025 with a LAN Kick-off event called Reload, tentatively set to ...