In the 16th episode of “Mind of the Gamer,” the show that has professional gamers explain their replay and describe what they were thinking during the match, Josh “TriMaster” Niven, a highly skilled Terran player recaps one of this matches to give insight to this gameplay.
Complexity Gaming and Team Dignitas, in conjunction with Sound Blaster, are proud to present the next episode of a new live show hosted by Jason Lake and Michael O`Dell: The Executives: The Business of Gaming #17: Creating a Sponsorship Deck.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:00 PM EST your hosts will be joined by news anchor Patrick “Chobopeon” O`Neill to discuss the business side of recent events. This week’s episode will feature Curt “Keyhunt” Carter, the Managing Director of Check-Six. Curt will be on the show to provide viewers with insight into the world of sponsorship decks.
The Executives’ goal is to educate the next generation of business leaders and facilitate an open discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing the eSports business today.
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On behalf of everyone here in the compLexity Family, we would like to wish coL.FG’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez a very happy birthday today.
Ryan first joined compLexity along with the boys from Cross Counter as they formed coL.CC. Over the years, Ryan has become one of the most popular, talented and recognized players in the industry. With his recent wins at both ReveLAtions and EVO 2012, Ryan has proven himself to be one of the world’s best FGC gamers.
Once again, we’d like to wish Ryan a very happy birthday. Post your birthday wishes here!
GosuGamers has released a ranking of the top 5 teams in the current Heroes of Newerth competitive scene by polling twenty well respected competitive players, managers and members of the community. The ranking was based upon a 5 point scale whereby the team voted first recives 5 points per voter, the team voted second gets 4 points per voter and so forth.
The coL.HoN team was able to take out the ranking with an impressive 100 point score, meaning that all twenty voters placed them in the first place of their top 5 lists.
Here is a sample of what was said about the compLexity Heroes of Newerth team on GosuGamers:
Check out the full article and full ranking over at GosuGamers
Another win for compLexity.HoN when they took down one of HoN’s better known stalwarts Team Tt eSPORTS 2-0. The first game was hotly contested and went along for a significant amount of time before the coL.HoN capitalised on some mistakes by TteS and managed to take out the first game. The second game of the series was fairly one-sided with compLexity.HoN continuing their undefeated streak throughout this tournament.
On Monday the 27th of August coL.HoN will be up against TradeMark eSports and is sure to be one of the top grudge matches of the tournament. The compLexity.HoN team currently have a 20-0 record in tournament play and will be looking to maintain the clean record and come out on top in this best of three series in the winners bracket finals!
Check out the updated brackets for the finals below:
Be sure to tune into the HoNCast stream at 3PM EST on Monday August 27th to watch the series!
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compLexity attends various activities at Valve HQ as they prepare for The International 2 in Seattle, Washington.
Today coL.DotA2 will be participating in The International Preliminaries, a massive tournament put on by Valve that features over $1,000,000 in prize money. These Preliminaries will determine where teams are placed into the Winner and Loser brackets.
The format of the Preliminaries will see “The teams are split up into two groups of eight and each team plays the other teams in their group twice for a total of 112 games, 14 per team.
The top four teams in each group advance to the Winner Bracket. The bottom four are placed in the Loser Bracket. If tiebreaker games are necessary, they will be played after all other Prelim games are completed.”
As if being put into the Winners bracket wasn’t advantageous enough, once the main International tournament begins, “All rounds of the Winner Bracket are played as Best of 3 games.” Where as “Rounds 1 through 4 of the Loser Bracket are played as Best of 1 game. Teams that lose a round here are eliminated from the tournament. The last two rounds of the Loser Bracket are played as Best of 3 games.”
In today’s round of matches compLexity will be taking on EHOME, Na`Vi, and iG. You can find the full schedule here.
To watch today’s matches, you can find a list of active streams here. Please tune in a root for our boys as they try and make it into the Winners Bracket so they can take home a piece of that $1,000,000 prize.
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 2 |
 Darer |
0 | 0 | – | 0 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 0 |
 Orange |
0 | 0 | – | 0 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 2 |
 TongFu |
0 | 0 | – | 0 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
 mTw |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 0 |
| iG |
0 | 0 | – | 2 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
 Na`Vi |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| coL.DotA 2 |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
| EHOME |
0 | 0 | – | 1 |
compLexity.HoN has taken down QSQUAD 357 2-0 it what was a fairly one sided series. With an impressive draft and supprier laning choices the coL.HoN team was able to take down QSQ within the first 15 minutes of the first game to pull up a quick conceed vote. QSQ showed heart in game two by drawing out the map and keeping up with coL.HoN for majority of the match. In the end it was a compounding experience lead compounded by a few small errors that lost the game for QSQ.
On Sunday the 26th of August coL.HoN will be up against Team Tt eSPORTS, a team that has had a tough time in the qualifying stage of the DreamHoN Tournament, however has since recovered into some consistant form. The compLexity.HoN team will be looking to maintain the clean record and come out on top in this best of three series.
Check out the updated brackets for the finals below:
Be sure to tune into the HoNCast stream at 3PM EST on Sunday August 26th to watch the series!
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compLexity’s DotA 2 team arrives at the hotel in Seattle, Washington for The International 2 presented by Valve.
compLexity.HoN have managed to completely dominate the groupstage (stage 2) of the DreamHoN Summer Online Championship (DHSC). They beat fellow American team, Saishii 2 – 0, maintaining the teams perfect map score going into the finals. The team enters the finals as the top favourite and number one threat from the fellow competitors.
The finals (stage 3) series of DHSC will be entirely double-elimination, best of three, with the winner taking home the first place prize of $20,000 and a trip to DreamHack Winter 2011. As far as prize pools go, this is as big as it gets for online tournaments in eSports and the pressure will certainly be on team to perform given their status as tournament favourites.
Check out the brackets for the finals below:
On Saturday the 25th of August coL.HoN will be up against QSQUAD 357, a team that has shown a significant amount of improvement over the course of the season. The compLexity.HoN team will be looking to maintain the clean record and come out on top in this best of three series.
Be sure to tune into the HoNCast stream at 7AM PST on Saturday August 25th to watch the series!
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