Zentrix Esports Another LAN

It definitely feels amazing to qualify for another LAN, but…

With that being said, we won’t be able to bring one of the players from our core roster who played in the online qualifiers. The reason? Indian parents.

One of the players who genuinely dominated and showed his true value in maintaining the team’s mental during scrims and official online qualifiers won’t be able to join us at the LAN.

He was all set. Train tickets booked, mouse charged, and everything locked in. But at the very last moment, just as he was about to leave his house, his dad objected to him travelling alone over a long distance.

I genuinely don’t understand. Are Indian parents supposed to accompany their children everywhere until the day they pass away? This is just another talent wasted, another dream crushed as if it meant nothing, all because he had to travel a long distance alone.

And the worst part? His dad had agreed to the trip just two days ago.

Hey all, I'm a doctoral student in sport psychology currently in my 2nd year. I've worked with baseball players and skateboarders before. I am interested in getting some experience with consulting competitive esports athletes and was wondering if there would be any players interested in this kind of experience. DM me if you are! I won't request anything in return in the early stages and we can discuss it later if anyone wishes to make it into a long term thing.

My main area of interest and research is motivation and intrateam communication. When I worked with athletes before, consulting was more about relaxation/anxiety control, maintaining focus, goal setting, and resilience. So I have experience in those areas too. Areas that concern issues in solo que or ranked games are less preferred since it's different from team-based or organized competition.

I'm also open to club players😁

I'm mainly a League of Legends player but am familiar with fps games too! Also I'm fully willing to learn any other games if necessary. Thanks!

I wasn't sure if I should use the "question" flair or the "unpaid" flair. If I should change it, please lmk.

I’m looking to be a try-hard. I’ve been in physical competitions, and I’m getting better at practicing for optimal performance.
What are some tips for a first time e-sports competitor?

Big week across competitive esports, with some major championship results and plenty to talk about heading into the next round of tournaments.

This week's coverage includes:

Dota 2: Team Yandex vs. Team Spirit at BLAST Slam VIII.

Counter-Strike 2: Vitality vs. MOUZ in the ESL Pro League Season 24 championship.

Quick Picks: Predictions and matchups worth keeping an eye on.

I cover what's happening across different esports titles, especially for people who follow competitive gaming but don't necessarily have time to keep up with every tournament.

Put together a quick episode covering some of the biggest stories and results.

For those following multiple esports, which game or tournament has your attention right now?

I’m part of the team behind Espotz (espotz.live), a platform for running esports tournaments. Before building features, we spent a lot of time watching where events actually fall apart. It’s rarely the bracket.

What kept breaking:

• Duplicate or messy sign-ups that only caused trouble on match day
• Formats that made the event twice as long as anyone planned
• One late match pushing back the whole schedule
• Admins copying results between sheets at midnight
• The same “when is my match / where’s the lobby” questions all day long

What we built for it:

• Registration that captures each player’s in-game name and ID, needs email verification, and locks details once confirmed
• A structure setup where you define stages, teams per match, winners and qualification rules once, and the bracket follows
• Score entry where you enter kills and rank once, and placement points, standings and winners update automatically
• A match announcement board, so room IDs and passwords reach every player in that match at once
• One admin dashboard for structure, matches, sponsors, streams, prizes, disputes and rules

It’s been used by 100K+ players across 98+ countries so far. But I’m more interested in what we’re still missing. If you run tournaments, what’s the most annoying part of your workflow right now?

Happy to answer questions, and I’m open to criticism too.

- 2003 (nov 18): esports was listed as china's 99th official sport. the company set up to run the league, huaao xingkong, had 300 million yuan from hong kong's CITIC pacific for 50% of its shares
- 2004 (march): the league, CEG, was due to open. it slipped a month when the CEO, a vice president and several esports people quit over how to run it. the new boss came from the marketing department of a football club, beijing guo'an
- 2004 (april 10): CEG opened. 8 regional divisions, 1 million yuan of start-up money each, in sports arenas, home and away
- 2004 (april 21): the broadcast regulator banned computer and online game programmes from tv. CCTV's esports show and the local ones went off air
- 2004 (end): a CEG arena often held about 30 people, both teams' players included. only wuhan kept drawing a crowd

i was working in esports in 2003. everyone around me thought spring had come. the plan was that each local sports authority builds a club and local businesses take it over before the million runs out. nobody answered why a business would. tv was gone, nobody told the esports websites when or where matches were, and most of the spectators who did turn up were players' friends and relatives.

the head of wNv put it this way: CEG took more than half a year and paid under 30,000 yuan for a discipline. a WCG cycle took under three months, a regional counter-strike champion got 30,000, the national champion 80,000. wNv and AS went abroad. the strongest team, shaanxi, won the national league every year, mostly with KinG's YollinY squad. to stop them moving to other teams, shaanxi often withheld their prize money from the final.

in 2004 i reported that CITIC pacific was pulling its money out of huaao xingkong, and got a lawyer's letter accusing me of spreading rumours. in july 2005 the staff were told another group would come in and take full part in running the company.

(from a chapter i wrote in 2013 for a history of chinese esports. it's free, link in the comments)

Western esports brands have often relied on local partners to enter the Chinese market. Vitality is taking a different approach, betting on the strength of its own brand.

I'm always wondering because in sports we often see players getting sick or injured in a game and esports is no different. So are there any esports players who got sick or injured during a live match and had to be sent off?

High and watching Beaulo highlights. Hes so smooth and fun to watch, anybody else like him in FPS esports?

Hello, yesterday i was on ESL Katowice Semis. Its my third year coming, previous events were organised as IEM's. Now its ESL. And the experience was extremely poor. On IEM's, there was a lot of different stalls/stands like INTEL whole tent, different gaming areas, merch outlet. Yesterday as ESL there was miserable 1 stand with original merch for stupid amount of money, 1 zowie stand and... a psychic stand (lady with crystal ball to tell your future). Yeah.

Im going also on PGL Lodz in March. And here is my question, what can i expect from PGL organisers? Because IEM activitions were good, ESL no comment. So what PGL is offering?

Hi everyone my name is Ace (ign) , I m looking looking for an esports team if any existing or I am planning to create a new team from scratch

I have been playing this game since 2018 have multiple paid tournaments experience including lysto and several t2 and t1 tier

My role is Assualter and I'm looking for a support player , igl and another Assaulter

I do not want players that have an abusive attitude or bad demeanor, a good and respectful playing environment is a must.

The team is for upcoming tournaments like jio blast and for next year's bgis qualification.

Device should be at least 60fps ,having IOS is an advantage!

Ace

Device - Iphone 17

Experience - 1.5+ years

Role - Assualter

I've been looking into the financial side of esports contracts lately, and something I find pretty interesting is how complicated things can get when a player gets dropped before their contract ends.

Say you're making $8k a month and have eight months left on your contract. Your org drops you, so naturally, your first thought might be that you just lost $64k.

But what if you sign with another team a month later? Or your original contract included prize money, sponsorship deals, and content revenue?

It gets even more interesting when you think about tournaments.

Let's say your team was supposed to compete in a tournament with a $1 million first-place prize. You obviously can't just say you lost $1 million because you didn't get to compete. There are a ton of things to consider, like whether your team had qualified, how well they were performing, and what your actual share of the winnings would have been.

And then there's streaming and sponsorships. Leaving an org might cost you some opportunities, but it could also open the door to independent deals you couldn't take before.

From a financial standpoint, there's a big difference between what a contract says you could earn and what you can reasonably show you lost.

I'm curious what people think about this, especially anyone who's been involved with player contracts.

Do you think most players really understand how much of their income is tied to their org beyond just their salary?

From intense matchups and unforgettable moments to the incredible Cayman gaming community coming together, GamersBay X was one for the books!

Big shoutout to all the players, fans, sponsors, and partners who made it happen. This is more than gaming — it’s the future of esports in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean! 🌴🏆

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Watch the recap and relive the action! Who’s ready for the next level? 👀🎮

#GamersBayX #CaymanIslands #Esports #SignusTech #GamingCommunity

how is the ranked scenes for each game and learning curve looking like? I feel like I know that answer but im just looking for feedback

Hey guys, My name is Best, technical founder of Cennex, a social networking platform for the esports industry. I'm giving a platform for every position in esports (not just pro players) to network and connect with others. One of my notable features in my first prototype is being able to link a liquepedia, vlr.gg, tracker network, etc; account to create a professional profile (with the option to create it manually for other specific roles). We are also able to scrape data from those platforms to find users to connect with on the app based off the tournaments you've coached, casted, or competed in. 😉

Releasing a sick waitlist/demo website soon, also trying for https://www.ycombinator.com/ ...

Let me know what you think about the idea, i'll get the discord server out once this waitlist website can come thru (:

Hello! I would love to volunteer myself as a graphic designer/social manager for your team for portfolio. I'm interested more in Valorant and League Communities but feel free to reach out still.

My portfolio: https://7threiki.carrd.co/

Feel free to DM or comment!

Hey everyone!
I’m looking for a 240Hz+ monitor with the lowest possible input lag and fastest response time.

Colours and image quality aren’t a priority.

My budget is around €120, so I’m looking for the best value for money, ideally on sale.

I play competitive CoD. Any recommendations or deals to look out for?

Thanks for the help!

in may 2007 an accounting student at hainan university who played warcraft 3 as miss got an invite from colagirl to join first, a women's team in beijing. that summer she bought a hard seat ticket and sat 37 hours on the train from haikou to get there.

that same summer, training in beijing, she ran out of money and was too shy to ask anyone for a loan. she went two days without eating. when she went to the team to collect her wages, her bus card had one yuan on it. the bus took four mao of that and she walked the rest of the way. once she had the money she found a small restaurant, got a bottle of minute maid and a plate of rice with shredded pork and potato, and poured the lot down while the middle-aged men around her stared.

women's tournaments were rare, so she kept entering men's events. opponents she'd never met mocked her before matches. a few of them smashed keyboards or cried after losing to her. up to 2010 she'd bought almost no clothes and mostly played in an oversized team jersey that hung on her like a bathrobe. in 2010 she came out of a suning men's event as the top woman, and at the shenzhen esports open she was the only woman to get through the group stage. by the time she graduated she'd been paying her own way for years on prize money and pro wages.

the one player she could never beat through the whole warcraft 3 era was colagirl, the friend who brought her to beijing. they met again in a starcraft 2 final in 2012.

(from a chapter i wrote in 2013 after a five hour interview with her. it's free to read, link in the comments)

looking to buy this in a L-XL if you have one and are willing to sell dm me

Hi All

We are Vulpine Esports from the UK and currently in dire need of Community Development peeps to come and help us rebuild the Discord server and the community overall.

We are all volunteers and have been going for about 7 years and have multiple events and tournaments happening over the next 12 months.

Our problem? The staff we have had are all busy people and have had to step away so we need some fresh eyes to rebuild our socials and community.

Vulpine is run by 2 dedicated people who have worked and taught esports for nearly a decade but between having jobs do not have the time we would love to put into it.

Anyone wanting to help out (especially if you are UK based) would be great ❤️

Hey so tomorrow I'm at EVO France. I will be competing in:

Super Street Fighter II: Super Turbo

Ultra Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter 6 (Main)

The King of Fighters XV (Main)

Avatar Legends the Fighting Game

Marvel Tokon

Samurai Shodown

I was all happy and motivated. I put in the hardwork all year round. I got a call that my grandma is in ICU and we're not sure if she'll make it.

I'm in UK, she is in China so I saw her via phone. She's unconscious so my dad put the phone on her ear and I said what maybe is my last words to her.

I've requested my family to not tell me what happens oveg the course of the weekend in France.

I do have a heavy load with the amount of games I am entering as well as two cosplay stage shows I am taking part in.

I just did some training as I could not sleep last night. I didn't do very well and made uncharacteristic errors.

I'm lost and I need advice.....

What's keeping me going is my grandma. She is fighting hard for her life and that's inspired me to fight hard in this tournament.

What I want is to be able to extract the most out of myself.

Thank you for reading.