Toornament Menu: What to Watch, Where to Play #3

As your Esports platform, Toornament brings you many tournaments to follow and even more to participate in.

Check out all our “Games” sections and browse the “Featured” and “Open” tabs. Here are some noteworthy picks from our staff:

WATCH

2017 GSL Season 1 – Code S

The most prestigious Starcraft II competition in the world now pits all of the Korean masters. The groupstages alone are a beautiful display of macro and micro skills. Sit and enjoy the streams and VODs from this week-end matches!

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Vainglory Blitz North America

Want to challenge hi-level Vainglory players and maybe earn some hard earned money? The VGL Blitz tournaments are definitely what you are looking for. Register fast as success fills each tournament really fast (here’s the European one).

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The real Esports opportunity lies in their ecosystem

Here’s a great column by The Chernin Group’s Edward Chang on GameIndustry.biz :

eSports: The missed billion-dollar opportunity for publishers and platforms

Now, we don’t usually publish opinion piece on our blog but this it’s hard to pass on this one. You should read it.

tl;dr Esports belong to publishers and this can be a hurdle for third-party start-ups and platforms. If publishers want to thrive in Esports, they have to nurture a dedicated ecosystem.

Spoiler Chang nailed it.

The post goes through the relationship between the top Esports publishers and the Esports platforms. With a defensive / conservative approach to their game, publishers seem to slow things down and only think short term. Esports are about long term vision.

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Credit: Newzoo

Advanced statistics, tournament organization, bets, in-game items, replays, spectating experience and custom services are some of the many opportunities which could amplify the Esports reach and economy.

At Toornament, we’re blessed to be integrated with some of the major games and work hard to integrate with more, at a deeper level. We’re an Esports platform but we believe that the real platforms are the games themselves. They must be the source and epicenter of a rich ecosystem of integrated services and businesses, in which all parties will benefit from each other.

Video games are closed products, but Esports must be an open platform. If we keep this in mind, the industry will really thrive.

Read: eSports: The missed billion-dollar opportunity for publishers and platforms

Toornament Menu: What to Watch, Where to Play #2

As your Esport platform, Toornament brings you many tournaments to follow and even more to participate in.

Check out all our “Games” sections and browse the “Featured” and “Open” tabs. Here are some noteworthy picks from our staff:

WATCH

6 Invitational PC

Siege is the latest Tom Clancy’s game and the first major Esport for Ubisoft. Hot on its promising first year, the game is now having its largest tournament to date with $200,000 money prize. Montreal will feel the heat in February!

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AddicT.Tournament.EU.HS#1

The competitive Hearthstone season offers great opportunities for the best deck masters to shine. Addict is launching its tournament for no less than 256 players, with precious points for the 2017 Hearthstone Europe Championship Tour to grab. Register here!

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Here are the games Toornament integrates with

At Toornament, we believe in-game integration is the future. Esports disciplines and Esports platform are bound to communicate with each others to bring upgraded features, smoother management, richer content and ultimately, better competitive experience.

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We’re working with all video game studios on such opportunities through our free API.

Here are some of our best integrations to date:

League of Legends

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Type: Tournament Code

With Tournament Codes, participants of a match automatically join the lobby before the match. After the game, Results and stats are automatically displayed.

Learn more:

Dota 2

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Type: Match ID

Dota 2 provide a unique ID for each match played on Valve’s servers. These Match IDs allow us to retrieve advanced statistics from the game.

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Type: Management softwares

Counter-Strike offers a more advanced approach on Match management. Dedicated softwares such as eBot and Adminbot are game changers, bringing in many options and stats. Toornament is now supported by both solutions.

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Type: Match ID

The cult board game has an equally passionate community fo its video game adaptation. We worked with deveolpper Cyanide Studios to get Match IDs you can simply copy/paste in tournament to retrieve results and stats.

Learn more:

Interested in working with us and plugging your game with our Esport Platform? Fire us a mail, [email protected]!

Toornament Menu: what to watch, where to play

As your Esport platform, Toornament brings you many tournaments to follow and even more to participate in.

Check out all our “Games” sections and browse the “Featured” and “Open” tabs.

In the meantime, here are our picks.

WATCH

ELeague Major

The first CS:GO Major operated by the famous ELeague is about to enter its final phase. Eight “Legendary” teams remain after gruesome fights in the Swiss Round. You can check all its results and video.

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OMEN by HP TROPHY – Qualifier #1

The League of Legends OMEN by HP TROPHY will take place at ESWC Winter with 10.000€ to grab. You can make it through two Qualifiers. The first one takes place this week end, assemble your team and register!

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