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G2 Partners with Adidas, CSGO Finally Has a New Major and Ultimate Gamer Puts up a Mil
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Three big announcements all hit today. Y'all couldn't have spread em out a bit? We talk G2 partnering with Adidas and where it puts the race between Nike, Adi and Puma. Then the first CSGO major since 2019 and a unique competition from Ultimate Gamer all coming out. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Time…
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Fra profesjonell CSGO Spiller til Sportslig leder for 777esports
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Interessant samtale med en som er rimelig dypt i gamet. Håper dere deler den tanken!By Oskar Westerlin
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301: Ryan from Rush B Media, Yikes of the Week,
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Ryan from Rush B Media joins us to talk some CS, and our first Yikes of the year...maybe?By TCR
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Garena Free Fire Announces New Season, English Broadcast For the First Time
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Garena Free Fire highlights a ton of trends in esports and gaming. First, the emerging opportunities in many regions, in this case Brazil. Second, the rise of mobile esports and mobile battle royales as a crucial part of the esports ecosystem. And third, the ability to create content around one game but not necessarily in that game as we've seen us…
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Where in the World is the Overwatch League Headed in 2021?
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A long episode dedicated entirely to the Overwatch League and the many questions surrounding the property that just a few years ago was the hotest commodity in esports. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was MLB Pitcher Alex Wood If you are interested in being a sponsor for…
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Esports Engine's New CEO On Building Storylines in Esports, Monetizing Broadcasts and More
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Marshall Zelaznik is the new CEO of Esports Engine, a leading esports event solution founded by Adam Apicella. The company is part of Vindex. Marshall joins the company with a long background in combat sports with ten years spent at the UFC. On this show, we talk about how UFC grew over the last two decades and paralells to esports, how UFC was abl…
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300: Envy Drops CS, TenZ Quits C9, Looking back on 300 Episodes
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Envy Drops CS, TenZ Quits C9, Looking back on 300 EpisodesBy TCR
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CDL Announces Start Date, HyperX Reups Deal with Esports Arena in Vegas
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The Call of Duty League is coming back, and coming back soon. We look at the return of the league including an interesting new draft-format to set divisions. Also, HyperX has continued its deal to be the name part of the Esports Stadium at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from T…
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The Gamer Hour - Chris Puckett Interviews MLB Pitcher Alex Wood
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Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was MLB Pitcher Alex Wood. If you are interested in being a sponsor for the Esports Minute, Esports Network Podcast, College Esports QuickTake or The Gamer Hour, please reach out to Esportz Network CEO Mark Thimmig by emailing mthimmig@esp…
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Boise State's Doc Haskell on Great Coaching in College Esports, Getting Administration on Board and What Titles Make Sense
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Doc Haskell is one of the best interviews in esports at large. For Boise State, he has won multiple awards including NACE's College Esports Program Director of the Year award for 2020. His program at Boise State represents one of the few varsity esports programs at a school that has had success in both esports and traditional sports. Two of his thr…
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Spanish Streamer theGrefG Shatters Twitch Records With 2.5M Concurrent Viewers
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If you weren't already paying attention to the Spanish streaming market, it's time to start. While announcing a new Fortnite skin based on himself and DragonBall Z, theGrefG has shattered almost every record on Twitch in one Monday afternoon. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's gu…
Fikk med Herman Dahl på en episode, noe som gikk greit over styr! Håper dere liker den!By Oskar Westerlin
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299: FalleN to Liquid, Dekay vs Hastr0, YotW
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Fallen signs with Liquid, but will it make a difference? Dekay goes after Hastr0 on twitter about Envy's plans, and first Yikes of the Week for 2021By TCR
What's the similarity between Daft Punk's 'One More Time' and William Goldman's 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'? Discover all that and more in this insane exploration of how our lives are like movies. And pop songs. And sentences. Music by Beaufort, Daft Punk and The Corrs.By The_Truth CS:GO Podcast
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Despite Soft Launch, NRG's New Full Squad Gaming Brand Blew Up on TikTok
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Full Squad Gaming (FSG) is a new lifestyle gaming brand built for social media backed by NRG. Thanks mostly to TikTok, FSG has already built a substantial following even though the brand isn't obviously connected to NRG on any platform. Read Adam Stern's article which I quote here and TubeFilter's article which was the first to recognize the new br…
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MarketPryce On the Importance of Esports Sponsorships, Athletes Building Value w/ Gaming
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MarketPryce is a two-sided marketplace for brands and athletes founded just last month. On this show, we talk with co-founder and CEO Jason Bergman as well as Marketing Manager and esports enthusiast Evan Haynos about the value of gaming for athletes, comparing esports sponsorships with sports and why esports players can better monetize their strea…
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Twitch Removes PogChamp Emote Following Riots at the Capitol
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Yesterday was a page in history textbooks. While the world watched, many people in the gaming community shared thoughts on the actions taken by a mob of frenzied Trump supporters as they broke through a police barrier to reach the Capitol building. One of those people was Gootecks, a voice in the FGC, and the face of the PogChamp emote. Following h…
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Epic Games Buys Out a Mall for New HQ, a $1.5B Esports Center Announced in Shanghai
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China's level of investment in esports is truly insane. Today we talk about a new center for esports being built in Shanghai as well as Epic Games purchase of a mall near it's North Carolina HQ for the developers new home base. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was NFL pla…
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Two Major Esports Properties Head into 2021 With New Rebrands
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Both Rogue and the LCK rebranded going into 2021. Personally, I'm a fan of both new designs, and so is the rest of the esports community, often a group overly critical of any rebrands. Check out the LCK announcement which comes with all the various new graphics packages which I think are the real stars of the show: Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Ne…
Førjulssnakken gikk alle veier da meg og Mythe varma opp jula. Håper dere likte showet!By Oskar Westerlin
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Top Takeaways From the Esports World in 2020
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What a year, on this extra long New Years Day epsiode, we look why this simulatanously was, and was not, a great year for esports depending on where you look. We look at how esports tournament and league organizers adapted the pandemic and we look at the simulataneous success of YouTube alongside the failure of Mixer. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz…
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Pico - Get Personal CEO on Teaming with Level Next, Value of Understanding Digital Fans
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Pico- Get Personal is a data driven marketing firm that has worked with the NFL, NBA, and Bundesliga among other sports properties. Now they are expanding to esports. On this show, Level Next CEO and co-founder Asaf Nevo joins the show to talk about the value of data, why esports teams in particular need to understand their fans and the companies n…
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The Most Important Esports Business Deals in 2020
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It was a tumutuos year and yet another year of growth for esports as a whole. Here are the three biggest brand deals from a huge brand targeting Gen Z to a challenge of Twitch to all-out controversy. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris…
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The Gamer Hour - Chris Puckett Interviews Broncos Kicker Brandon McManus
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On this holiday episode of The Gamer Hour, Chris Puckett brings on Broncos kicker Brandon McManus to talk all things gaming. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and subscribe, it helps us out a ton! Three new episodes each week. Monday - An interview wi…
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College Esports Takeover - Harvard Med Publishes Article on Health Impacts of Gaming
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This episode was originally published last Tuesday on the College Esports QuickTake feed. I will be back later this week with new episodes of the Esports Minute. Here's the Harvard article: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-health-effects-of-too-much-gaming-2020122221645?unapproved=472489&moderation-hash=1e755af1379a930e88ac2c1b9d58befc#comme…
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College Esports Takeover - CSL Chairman Moves to Vindex, More HBCU Esports Initiatives
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Wim Stocks moves to Vindex, the last guiding voice of the Collegiate StarLeague leaving the company squarely in the hands of new owners PlayFly Sports. Also, Chess is added to the High School Esports League and more initiatives are being created for historically black colleges and universities to build out esports programs. (This episode was publis…
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Ultimate Gamer Brings Esports to Times Square for New Years Eve
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Ultimate Gamer CEO Steve Suarez joins the show to talk about the companies ongoing virtual New Years Eve celebration. VNYE.com will host competitions, streams and events via the iconic home of NYE celebrations for decades. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was NFL player C…
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The Gamer Hour - Chris Puckett Interviews Breakout NFL WR Curtis Samuel
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On this episode of The Gamer Hour, Chris Puckett interviews Carolina Panther's WR Curtis Samuel who is in the midst of a breakout season. Watch The Gamer Hour on YouTube: If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and subscribe, it helps us out a ton! Three new episodes each week. Monday - An interview with a leading exec in esports / gaming Wednesday…
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DAMWON Gaming Adds Kia as Named Partner, Envy Signs Botez Sisters
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The defending world champs will go by DWG Kia while more chess streamers sign to esports organizations. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was NBA player Josh Hart. If you are connected to …
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297: The Center Ring Esports Awards - The Timmys
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Our 2nd annual The Center Ring Esports Awards - The TimmysBy TCR
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Discord Doubles Valuation in Six Months, Valorant Tournament Causes Controversy
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Discord has gone nuclear in 2020. The company's latest Series H round shows a valuation of $7B, double the valuation of the company in it's funding round in June. The Pittsburgh Knights took a turn at tournament organizing and drama around a cheating accusation from Ninja overshadowed the event. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changer…
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Manny Anekal Breaks Down Why No One is Watching Venn
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Venn is having a rough go of it. On this show Manny Anekal, a longtime esports exec, joins the show to talk about why Venn hasn't worked, content trends in general and what lessons content creators / media companies can take from the failings of Venn and Quibi. Read Manny's original article "Why No One is Watching Venn" on tnl.media. Watch The Game…
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Friday Roundup - TheScore Esports Expands to Live Events, NFL Exec Joins FaZe Clan
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Three new stories to round out this week. Another sports exec joins esports, theScore Esports announces the company's first live event coverage and the esports industry has a new B2B awards show. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puc…
August og Martin har hatt en brakende suksess på TikTok, hvor de har blitt sett av flere titalls millioner mennesker. Her snakker vi om veksten, planene videre og masse masse mer!By Oskar Westerlin
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The Game Awards Sees Huge Viewership Growth Once Again in 2020
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Alright, the Game Awards are going crazy. Viewership stats from the 2020 broadcast highlight a crazy growth tragectory for the award show created in 2014. Here's why it may eventually eclipse some of the major US award shows but why we can't directly compare them right now. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TG…
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296: Clutch or Kick, Twitch Bans Words, Not EZ4ENCE
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Clutch or Kick, Twitch Bans Words, Not EZ4ENCEBy TCR
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Riot Games, Vindex Fill New Executive Roles + Bonus Cyberpunk 2077 Thoughts
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Riot Games and Vindex both added new executives today from Netflix and the UFC respectively. Cyberpunk 2077 is also a buggy mess, read the take on the marketing grift that made this possible. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett…
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The Gamer Hour - Chris Puckett Interviews Musician Zayde Wolf
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On this episode of The Gamer Hour, Chris Puckett interviews Zayde Wolf (the creator of our intro song) about his love for gaming. Watch The Gamer Hour on YouTube If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and subscribe, it helps us out a ton! Three new episodes each week. Monday - An interview with a leading exec in esports / gaming Wednesday - The Ga…
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Blast Premiere Announces New Qualifier Series, World Final
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Blast Premiere is further complicating the CSGO world but the new World Final will create yet another pinacle event for CSGO. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was NFL player Arian Foster.…
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295: JBL Quantum Cup, Big Yikes of the Week
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JBL Quantum Cup, Big Yikes of the WeekBy TCR
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Esports One CEO on Creating Fantasy Games in a Changing Esports World, Expanding to Four New Titles
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Fantasy games rely on a bit of stability. Unfortunately, stability is what esports lacks. That hasn't stopped Matt Gunnin and the team at Esports One from bringing fantasy games to esports fans. Using a new funding round, Esports One will expand to four new esports titles. On this show, Matt talks about how changing structures in esports impact fan…
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Riot Games Confirms Changes to LCS Structure Ahead of 2021 Season
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Well we reported on this when Travis Gafford first broke the story but lets look at what this change to the LCS' format means for League of Legends as a whole going forward. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square…
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Friday Roundup - New Fortnite Tournament, Race to World First and Envy's Fantasy Partnership
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On this Friday roundup of the esports minute we cover Frosty Frenzy, a new Fortnite tournament with a $5M prize pool, Complexity signing a chinese broadcast rights deal and Envy Gaming partnering with Thrive Fantasy. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new sho…
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Complexity's COO on Race to World First, Complexity-Limit and How Nutrition Helps Players
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Race to World First is one of the most unique competitions in esports. On this show, Kyle Bautista, the COO of Complexity Gaming, talks about how they are prepping their players to succeed, the grassroots nature of the event and how so much of modern esports evolved from WoW roots. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris P…
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Just What is Going on at the Esports Stadium Arlington?
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After laying off almost all its staff, the largest esports facility in North America seems to be in some trouble. These aren't just layoffs due to Covid, although that played a part, they seem to be layoffs driven by nepotism and instigated by the same executive who also bungled OpTic Gaming's brand. Check out Kevin Hitt's interview with the new CE…
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294: Valorant and CS CSPPA Civil War with dusT
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dusT joins us for an extended guest appearance to discuss castings, Valorant, and the CSPPA drama going on.By TCR
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Riot Games Reports League of Legends Worlds Viewership for 2020
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Riot Games has reported viewership for Worlds and once again they are setting the pace for esports. Here's the data they provided and how it stacks up against the biggest sports events in the world. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers check them out at TGCplay.com Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris …
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The Gamer Hour - Chris Puckett Interviews NFL RB Arian Foster
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Chris Puckett is back with the latest epsiode of The Gamer Hour, this time featuring former standout running back Arian Foster. Here's the audio version if you want video check out the show on YouTube below. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show hosted by Chris Puckett from Times Square. This week's guest was NFL player Arian Foster. If…
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Recapping Valorant's First Strike Tournaments From Around the World
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Leave it to Riot Games to make a splash. The developer of League of Legends and Valorant went super wide with the developer's first official Valorant tournament holding 17 tournaments in various regions. We look at the width, the promise of Valorant esports and how the scene is taking shape. This episode was sponsored by Technology Game Changers ch…