The NA LCS is back, and boy, is it a good thing the format was changed to best-of-ones. If it hadn’t, we might still be watching Clutch Gaming and OpTic Gaming fight over Baron. The 2018 Season has brought with it one of the most bland metas I can remember…

The 2018 NA LCS season is almost here. After one of the most eventful off seasons in history, teams are starting to take shape. Many familiar faces will be wearing unfamiliar jerseys as things get under way in just over a month. With so much upheaval, I’m left wondering which…

TSM fans have it made this year. They‘ve got an entire tier list of excuses to refer to if their team underperformed at the 2017 World Championship. There‘s even a bingo card. “They underestimated their opponent.” “Best of one is bad for TSM.” “Parth had bad drafts.” …

During the 2016 World Championship, more than 1.8 million players filled out brackets for Worlds Pick’Em. One got it right. His name was Lokomotif Barış, and he correctly predicted every step of Worlds 2016, including the moment that slaughtered thousands of brackets: Albus NoX Luna advancing to quarterfinals. After that…

The 2017 League of Legends World Championship is about to begin — sort of. This year’s tournament introduces a new phase called the Play-In. It’s where teams from international regions (formerly known as “wild cards”) compete for a spot in the Group Stage. For many fans, the Play-In might not…

At 18 years old, I sat in my room and stared at two different college acceptance letters. I didn’t realize it then, but I was facing the most important decision in my life to that point. Whichever I chose, I’d be starting life in a new city. We all have…

A deadly blue force field forces 13 survivors toward a lonely house atop a grassy hill. Scrambling for sparse cover, five are cut down in a hail of bullets. The seven who remain are just moments away from a chance at $30,000. The Gamescom Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Invitational tournament is underway…

I’m 24 minutes into a game of solo queue, and it’s going pretty well. I won my lane, we’re up five kills, and we’re thinking about starting Baron. Then I notice the enemy Nasus is taking a third of a tower’s hit points with a single Siphoning Strike. My bot…

“I guess we won’t be seeing Bjergsen on Galio again. At least not until world’s, when TSM will put him on Galio every game.” “Just put him on a carry, jesus. And Svenskeren wasn’t really helping this series either.” “Bjerg making Galio look balanced.” These are just a few comments…