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ESL One Is The Biggest eSports Event On The East Coast

by on October 17, 2014
 

Last week the ESL invaded Madison Square Garden and brought Dota 2 to the New York Super Week. The two-day event has been crowned as the biggest eSports event on the east coast ever by bringing in over 5,000 attendees and 2 million viewers.

ViCi Gaming managed to walk away as winners (and the lions share of the $130,000 prize pool) after beating American favorites Evil Geniuses in the final. The Dota that was played was refreshing to watch, as this was the first major post TI4 LAN with the latest patch. The new patch removed the sub 15-minute games and has resulted in a late game focused meta that is much more entertaining to watch, something that was evident in the final series as well as many others throughout the event.

Next up for the ESL is their Intel Extreme Masters Event in San Jose in December, while the Dota world turns to the D2CL playoffs along with The Summit 2 qualifiers and the D2L.

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Mike Stubbsy

eSports! I joined God is a Geek all the way back in September 2013 and since then have spent most of my time on Dota 2, and occasionally posting the odd review, news article or totally wrong predictions for The International. When I am not playing Dota I can probably be seen watching some kind of strange eSport or begging for more Twitter followers (@MikeStubbsy if you are interested). Aside from GiaG I am a computing student, football coach and major Apple fanboy.