In 2019, Nike inked a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with T1, the storied League of Legends pro team from Korea. As part of the deal, they gave Faker, T1’s midlaner and the most universally acclaimed esports player in history, a tour of Nike headquarters. As he wandered through the tour, starry…

League of Legends is the most complex game on the market today. …

My first console was a Sega Game Gear. It ate AA batteries like kit-kats in exchange for two glorious hours of playing Sonic or NBA Jam. Despite the limitations, I stripped batteries out of wall clocks, tv remotes, and my brothers’ remote-control cars to play these games. Why? I wasn’t…

Much has been made of North America’s consistent regional failure in League of Legends. Pundits, analysts, casters, pros, and fans wring their hands and wonder what the endemic issue is. Why do North American teams get consistently blown out of the water by statistically weaker teams at international competitions? Arguments…

If you’re reading this on a computer, put your hand on the keyboard in the FPS position. If you’re like most people, you have your middle finger on W, ring and index on A and D, and pinky on shift. To hit left control, you need to either shift your…

This week, rumors erupted that Perkz, potentially erstwhile ADC for European League of Legends giant G2, would be returning to the midlane as the mid for Cloud9 for an estimated $5 million dollar buyout and the highest salary ever recorded for a North American player (some sources ballparked it at…

How do you pronounce XQC? What does it mean? …

Mr. Beast, the wildly popular YouTuber known for his videos involving outsized pranks and giving away eye-watering amounts of money, recently announced that he was moving towards ownership of an esports team for League of Legends. Immediate excitement followed, considering his online following (46 million on YouTube at the time…