What's On This Week?

‘What’s on this week?’ is ESI’s weekly function letting you already know just what’s going on within the wonderful world of esports in the next seven days. Each week, ESI picks a number of events and provides a transient overview of what’s going down, where it’s taking place, and how you can watch it.

This week we’re all about MOBA titles. With Part 2 of SMITE Pro League kicking off this week, we head to America for our first choose. After that, we check in with the LEC as issues begin to get spicy at the time after Excel Esports lastly grabbed a 2-zero week as they appear to keep the playoff dream alive. Sticking with the UK, we then meet up with the UKLC and see who’s been claiming Tower Championships since we final covered the league.

SMITE Professional League 2019 Phase 2 Week 1

SMITE Pro League returns this week as Phase 2 will get underway. Hot off the heels of the Mid-Season Invitational, which noticed Renegades take the title after beating World Champions Splyce 3-zero within the grand finals. Section 2 will characteristic the next sides: Dignitas, eUnited, Luminosity Gaming, Pittsburgh Knights, SK Gaming, Renegades, Spacestation Gaming, Splyce, Group RivaL, and Trifecta.

Over the next 12 weeks, teams will face off on every Thursday and Friday with two sets of matches on every day. All video games are played in a finest-of-five series with spots at the SMITE World Championship on the road. All matches will probably be streamed on SMITE’s Mixer channel.

Stream: SmiteGame
Location: Hello-Rez Studios, Alpharetta, Georgia, USA
Date: 1st-2nd August
Organiser: Hi-Rez Studios

LEC Summer time Split Week 7

We head again to the LEC this week as G2 Esports keep tempo at the highest with an 11-1 document. Fnatic proceed to have inconsistent results as they go 1-1 once more, a end result that noticed Splyce be part of them in second place. One bit of good news at the underside of the table, for UK followers a minimum of, saw Excel Esports decide up its first 2-0 week and despatched them as much as joined ninth preserving its playoffs desires alive.

Over the course of the break up, the LEC sees 10 teams battle it out in a double round-robin greatest-of-one format with the highest six teams advancing to the playoffs. The top three sides from the playoffs will then go to Worlds as European representatives.

Stream: Riot Video games
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: 2nd-third August
Sponsors: Kia, Alienware, DXRacer, Foot Locker, Logitech G, Shell, Warner Music, Tchibo, Beko, Purple Bull, GoDaddy
Organiser: Riot Games
Prize pool: €200,000 (£179,855.76)

UK League Championship Week 5

When the European League of Legends scene adopting franchising for 2019 and past, it created a lot of excitement for regional leagues throughout Europe. One of many standouts was the United Kingdom’s very own league. 2018 saw LVP take over from ESL UK because the organiser of the UK LoL scene and 2019 saw the beginning of UKLC, that includes acquainted faces from UK’s past.

The UKLC is made up of MnM Gaming, Barrage Esports, Enclave Gaming, Diabolus, Excel UK, NVision Esports, DarkSpawn Esports, Phelan Gaming and Fnatic Rising. The competition options a ‘tower’ system, which sees the earlier week’s winner taking the form as the ‘end boss’ of the next week. The fourth week noticed Fnatic Rising grow to be the tower champion, placing them only one level behind Excel UK. Going into Week 5, Fnatic and Excel look miles ahead of the groups belo, with 9 factors separating second and third place.