Team Name, Regional Record, National Record, Committee Points, Places Changed UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL 4-0 4-0 (278 POINTS –) INDIANA UNIVERSITY–PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS 3-1 3-1 (205 POINTS –) UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 4-0 4-0 (173 POINTS +1) LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 4-0 3-1 (153 POINTS -1) UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS 4-0 3-1 (139 POINTS –) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE 4-0 4-0 […]

Team Name, Regional Record, National Record, Committee Points, Places Changed (This is first week where we have deducted the points from week 1 in order to give a more accurate representation of current strength. The initial idea was to do it on a 3 week cycle, but 3 weeks is a lot of time in […]

Team Name, Regional Record, National Record, Committee Points, Places Changed INDIANA UNIVERSITY–PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS 2-0 2-0 (264 POINTS –) UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL 2-0 2-0 (217 POINTS –) LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 2-0 2-0 (186 POINTS –) UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS 2-0 2-0 (176 POINTS –) UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 2-0 2-0 (169 POINTS –) UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À […]

Team Name, Regional Record, National Record, Committee Points INDIANA UNIVERSITY–PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS 1-0 1-0 (130 points) UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL 1-0 1-0 (100 points) Louisiana State University 1-0 1-0 (98 Points) University of North Texas 1-0 1-0 (96 Points) University of Kentucky 1-0 1-0 (80 Points) UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES 1-0 1-0  (39 points) Robert Morris […]

Introducing the (unofficial) Heroes of the Dorm power rankings committee. Each week, the committee will publish their power rankings for Heroes of the Dorm in a style very similar to that of college football. The committee consists of ten people who will nominate their top eight teams each week and points will be allocated accordingly. […]

This essay will aim to answer whether esports should be considered an Olympic sport moving forward. It will look to draw on various definitions of sport and apply those to the phenomenon of esports as well as compare the spectacle to traditional sports. Esports covers a variety of titles across a number of genres of […]

As someone who has been in around esports since 2012, I’ve been able to take on a number of roles and learn from a variety of different experiences across multiple titles. In my mind, there is no doubt that esports could be considered and I believe that you can apply Coakley’s definition to esports and it […]

Coming up next week, we will see two teams from North America join Astral Authority and Denial Esports in Blizzard’s prestigious Heroes Global Championship league. The two NA representatives at Blizzcon received a direct invite to the league, which will begin early in 2017, but the remaining hopefuls will have to battle it out across […]

ESL, or the Electronic Sports League, is an international organisation which facilitates competition on various levels over various gaming titles.  In social media, specifically Twitter, they have various accounts attaining to their different titles but their main account (@ESL) has almost 700,000 followers. Their presence within Twitter has grown over many years with recent growth […]