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Riot Games has announced a host of plans for Valorant, to enhance the gaming ecosystem.The new plans, which kick off from 2023, will see the addition of three new international leagues and also a new system to identify long-term partners for the Valorant esports circuit. The new international leagues will have teams competing from the...

Esports tournament organiser ESL Gaming has announced an expansion to its existing partnership with North American data and measurement firm Nielsen. The measurement partnership will see an expansion of tracking more events and more broadcasts per platform and channel. The events that will be covered as the CS:GO ESL Pro Tour and Dota 2’s properties and...

Online betting and gaming site M88 Mansion has signed a new partnership with southeast Asian esports organisation Talon Esports.The deal sees M88 Mansion become Talon Esports’ DotA 2 team’s Title Sponsor. As Title Sponsor, M88 Mansion will be featured on the in-game player names of Talon’s DotA 2 players, and the Asian online gambling brand...

Team Whoops seal Asian Games berth by defeating Team Avengers in the DotA 2 grand final at the ESFI’s National Esports Championships. The Esports Federation of India (ESFI) has announced a strong 18-member Indian contingent for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games, where Esports will be making a debut as a medal sport.Following eight days of...

Riot Games Brazil inks five-year deal. Games publisher Riot Games has inked a five-year agreement with Spanish banking group Santander. The deal sees Santander join as a Master Sponsor of League of Legends tournaments in Brazil. As part of the deal, the Santander branding will be present at the Brazilian League of Legends Championship (CBLOL)...

French esports organisation Team Vitality have announced a multi-year partnership with gaming chair manufacturer Secretlab, which sees the latter join as the French organisation’s Official Gaming Chair Partner.The partnership will see Secretlab provide all of Team Vitality’s teams with gaming chairs across their various facilities. The two parties will also be collaborating on co-designing an...

Revenant Esports have announced their first-ever Apex Legends team. The team will sit alongside their current teams - Battlegrounds Mobile India, Free Fire, Valorant, Wild Rift EU and Call of Duty Mobile. Revenant Esports will be the only organisation from India to be playing the ALGC Playoffs in Sweden against world-class organisations like G2 Esports, Cloud9, TSM and 100 Thieves to name a few. The roster will be seen representing Revenant Esports in the Apex Legends Global Series Split 2 Playoffs in Sweden from April 29 to May 1, 2022. The roster currently consists of Muhammad Iqbal Salis “BellkunX_” Kadafi, Muhammad Zidan “MeXiousx” Syahada, Muhammad “laheemx_” Ilham and is coached by Apex Legends veteran player Hasan Ali “FATTMONSTER” Naqvi.

Games publisher Riot Games has partnered with technology company Intel to revamp the 2022 Intel Arabian Cup (IAC). As part of the partnership, the IAC will have a US$130,000 prize pool for the tournament in an attempt to develop and hone talents from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.The revamped tournament will also...

Danish shipping and logistics firm A.P. Møller – Mærsk (Maersk) has signed a new partnership with global esports tournament organiser BLAST Premier. The partnership will see Maersk join as an Official Sponsor of BLAST’s CS:GO events in 2022, and the Maersk branding will be visible on BLAST Premier’s digital and physical assets. The two parties will also work together on the MVP segments of the tournaments, and the best players from the tournaments will be getting a Maersk-branded trophy. They will also work on ‘integrated digital campaigns’ around fan engagement.

Telecommunications firm Verizon has signed a partnership with Riot Games which will see it become the Official Founding Partner of League of Legends: Wild Rift in North America.Verizon has also been named as the Exclusive 5G Network and Services Provider of the Wild Rift North American Series. It will also work with Riot Games to...