{"id":2923,"date":"2018-05-29T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/?p=2923\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:55:59","slug":"press-round-up-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/2018\/05\/29\/press-round-up-18\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS ROUND UP #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Sommaire<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Fortnites_esports_entry_makes_history\">Fortnite\u2019s esports entry makes history<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#ESPN_to_air_NA_LCS\">ESPN+ to air NA LCS<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Fortnites_first_scholarship_revealed\">Fortnite\u2019s first scholarship revealed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Dignitas_shakes_things_up\">Dignitas shakes things up<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h3><span id=\"Fortnites_esports_entry_makes_history\"><b>Fortnite\u2019s esports entry makes history<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/epic-games-will-provide-100m-prize-money-fortnite-esports-2018-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn\u2019t mess around<\/a>. The editor just announced that they will put 100 million dollars on the table for the ever popular Fortnite\u2019s competitive start. The first professional Fortnite season should take place in 2018-2019. Epic Games can count on the game\u2019s huge success and on major ambassadors such as Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins. For a few months, Ninja\u2019s constantly been at the top of Twitch audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know \u00a0from the editor\u2019s announcement. Still, they did state that their approach will be different, more focused on the joy of playing and watching the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"ESPN_to_air_NA_LCS\"><b>ESPN+ to air NA LCS<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esports vulgarisation keeps going. ESPN recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esportsinsider.com\/2018\/05\/espn-na-lcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a partnership<\/a> with Riot Games to obtain the rights to air the North American League of Legends Championship Series. The competition will be livestreamed on ESPN\u2019s new streaming service, ESPN+. This association takes a non-exclusive form, meaning it won\u2019t collide with Youtube and Twitch. While the latter maintain its free aspect, ESPN hopes to open up ESPN+\u2019s subscribers to esports. The partnership should begin officially on June 16th, starting date of the NA LCS.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Fortnites_first_scholarship_revealed\"><b>Fortnite\u2019s first scholarship revealed<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LoL is doing it, so is Overwatch \u2026 why not Fortnite? Ashland University (Louisville, Kentucky) decided to offer a scholarship to the best players of Epic Games\u2019 popular battle royale. While many schools are rejecting the game, Devin Sharp, 22 years old, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/esports\/story\/_\/id\/23606335\/ashland-university-signs-first-fortnite-player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn\u2019t have to think about it twice<\/a>. He told ESPN: &#8220;Honestly, I&#8217;m still somewhat in shock. Hearing it being said in those words, it&#8217;s nothing short of mind-blowing. On the other hand, it also motivates me to keep grinding, because it&#8217;s proof that hard work towards your dreams really can pay off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Dignitas_shakes_things_up\"><b>Dignitas shakes things up<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American structure Dignitas <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/team-dignitas-rocket-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is transforming<\/a>. First and foremost, they just hired a new CEO, Michael Prindiville. He takes the place of Jonathan Kemp, who left a while ago. Under this new leadership, Dignitas already signed Rocket League\u2019s world champions, previously on Gale Force eSports. Moreover, Prindiville is seriously thinking about submitting an application to enter EU LCS, and relocating to Los Angeles. All those changes are part of the structure \u201cupdate\u201d, which may &#8211; it\u2019s not confirmed yet &#8211; go as far as replace the Dignitas name altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cover picture credits : Epic Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SommaireFortnite\u2019s esports entry makes historyESPN+ to air NA LCSFortnite\u2019s first scholarship revealedDignitas shakes things up Fortnite\u2019s esports entry makes history Epic Games doesn\u2019t mess around. The editor just announced that they will put 100 million dollars on the table for the ever popular Fortnite\u2019s competitive start. The first professional Fortnite season should take place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,13,121,728],"tags":[1153,814,1154,322,74,1142,1084,209,1155,1156,1146,1075,759],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}