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Three clubs are still in the fight for the EWC26 Club Championship:

🟡 AG.AL

🟢 Team Falcons

🐝 Team Vitality

With CS2, Fortnite Reload, Trackmania and CROSSFIRE still deciding the final points, this could go down to the wire.

Who do you think finishes #1?

Is college WiFi alone bearable to game on? If not what do you guys do to get good performance?

I've been trying to find more players who are interested in smaller-scale Valorant tournaments and scrims rather than only playing ranked all day.

I'm particularly interested in aspiring players who want to:

Play organized BO3 scrims

Find reliable teammates/duos

Improve through competitive games

Track their progress

Play against other players around their level

Eventually get noticed for their performance

I'm working on a small community around this idea and testing different formats to see what players actually enjoy.

If you're a lower-rank player, what would make you genuinely want to participate in a community like this?

I'm more interested in hearing what players want than just throwing another Discord invite at people.

So I realized that I haven’t played CS regularly for about 3–4 years. I’ve tried getting back into it a few times since, but my old laptop doesn’t seem to like it
That said, I’ve never stopped following the esports scene. And it made me wonder if that’s actually pretty common.
I’m pretty sure most of us started following esports because there was a competitive scene around games we played. But do you guys follow the esports scene of a game you barely play anymore or maybe have never even played?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a project called Manager of Legends, a esports management simulator. (Basically, think Football Manager, but for esports)

The idea is not just playing matches, but actually dealing with the things that make following competitive esports interesting: building and rebuilding rosters, developing young players, hiring coaching staff, finances, international tournaments...

The long-term goal is to feel less like a sequence of matches and more like a persistent esports world where teams rise and fall, players develop, careers end, new talent appears and organisations build their own "history".

Right now the simulation is heavily inspired by the League of Legends competitive structure, but the management side is what I’m most interested in exploring.

I’m especially curious what people here think makes esports management different from traditional sports management.

The game is still very early and definitely not polished, but it’s playable directly in the browser if anyone wants to try it. You can find the links to play and all the info over on the Discord https://discord.gg/SqyBvgV9

Honestly, I’m just looking for some feedback. Let me know

Why is it that gaming orgs and investors have yet to fully invest their time into what could be of Gaming in africa. The recent ENC qualification exposed a lot especially in the valorant scene. Servers aren't enough talkless of being optimal enough for people to show their skills. We had to fly out players to cape town to compete, mind out most of the players came from the diaspora, we didn't even prioritize our own living in players.
I remember back in 2020 when i was still grinding fortnite during covid. It was brutal, i had to learn how to compensate my 90's with high ping(120-160ms), it was a tough grind, fun but tough, it had me thinking how i'd fair on single or double digit ping, there were also rumors at the time that amazon were drilling fibre lines for african servers back then, i remember reading patch notes hoping to see that African would get their server, it always ended in heart break, there was a SA streamer who milked patch note updates back then dewald black i believe, id hop on his stream hoping to see #fortniteafricanservers was real. Bittersweet memories because I know that till this day they are yet to give African a platform of their.

Maybe one day in the near future Africa would get to where it belongs economically and gaming wise.

I’ve been on WIFi on my pc and I cannot run Ethernet because it’s too long across room. But I will discuss to my parents to get me Ethernet setup.

I planning to join high school esport team this year and I want to improve but it’s seem WIFI lag had prevented me from getting better and consistent.

I only play Fortnite and I can’t hit consistent edits or building due to lag and I have powerful pc and it shouldn’t be cause this lag. I had experience ping spikes, packet loss, and lag on wifi.

So do you think switching it actually improve your in game mechanics and skills? Why and how it can ? Is there a benefit using Ethernet?

Thanks and I want to know if it actually improve and convince my parents get me wired connection setup.

I know this has been debated before for example Rocket league vs MOBAs

Question which has the highest skill ceiling?

In both mechanical input and strategy

While it's unfair in some regards to compare the two as they have different strengths

But I really have to say.. most will say MOBAs due to the complexity and ever changing champion set up

DISCLAIMER: I KNOW TAS IS FAKE SLOWLY CRAFTED INPUTS WHICH ARE PRETTY INHUMANE AND CURRENTLY INPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE

Although the program TAS which is "fake" because it's generated gradually to represent the most perfect inputs possible

But if these inputs are technically possible, this represents the absolutely insane inhumane skill ceiling this game possibly has

I know MOBAs has so many other components but this outrageous possibility of inputs which is as I said inhumane(but technically possible) surely puts the overall "skill ceiling" higher?

Yes MOBAs are absolutely harder strategically

But rocket league mechanically shows how complex the inputs can be

Maybe something there is to argue there is no TAS like program to represent potential mechanical skill ceiling of MOBAs, even if there was would it really even come close to some things made in TAS

Which in my opinion puts the ultimate skill ceiling higher no? Humanly achievable yet or not

Edit: holy.. okay Dota fan girls, I get it you play Dota>lol - changed it to MOBAs your genre is still 3rd imo. Settle down lolo

Long-time fan, built this because I kept missing matches and then losing 20 minutes scrubbing through a multi-hour Twitch VOD trying to find where the actual game starts.

spectateesports.live - find a match, click once, land at the exact second it kicks off. No scrubbing, no accidental spoilers.

It's grown a lot based on what people kept asking for here and on Discord:

• Spoiler-free mode: hides scores and results site-wide until you're ready to see them
• Live match tracking: live score, a gold-lead graph, and draft info while the game is still going
• Follow your teams: push notification when they go live, calendar sync for their schedule

All free, no ads, no account needed. Built and maintained solo, in my spare time, on top of public APIs (OpenDota, PandaScore, Twitch, STRATZ).

For TI, live tracking is what I've been heads-down on the last few weeks, trying to make it something you'd actually keep open in a second tab during a game instead of just a replay tool.

Would genuinely appreciate bug reports and feature requests, that's basically how the last few months of this happened. Link: spectateesports.live

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Its no secret that esports isn’t profitable. As a viewer, how much would you be willing to pay to watch a stream or for exclusive org/ tournament content ? Or if you had to pay, what would you expect in return or would you stop watching?

As the title suggests who would u put in say top 10 igls of all time, since idk any other games much other than cs esports scene wise,imma say from cs I put forward karrigan, glaive, fallen, apex...top 10 would def be difficult since the games are different but I mean u can roughly get an idea nah? Gimme the games and like the names u d like to add

With the success of the WNBA and many other leagues that followed it. Do you guys think that womens esports would grow and finally become mainstream?

I wanna fit a mouse keyboard iems and a mousepad in this my hand is small I do palm grip keyboard I want one with a good sound and all black iems I'll take whichever mousepad I was thinking glass but out of my league

I’m at the point where I’m looking into outside investment to help grow in the eSports industry.

For those who have experience in esports or have raised funding in this sector are there any tips on how to connect w someone willing or looking to invest here? VCs want more traction than what i currently have.