{"id":30099,"date":"2013-07-01T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=30099"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:11:00","slug":"major-league-gaming-esports-league-of-legends-complexity-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii-and-polt-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-video-game-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=30099","title":{"rendered":"Major League Gaming: eSports (League of Legends), CompLexity (Call of Duty: Black Ops II) and Polt (StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm) – VIDEO GAME NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Major League Gaming (MLG)<\/a> shattered previous records with more than 21,000 competitors and fans attending the three-day Spring Championship in Anaheim, CA.\u00a0 From June 28-30, hundreds of the world\u2019s best players competed for $105,000 in prizes with FXOpen eSports (League of Legends<\/em>), CompLexity (Call of Duty: Black Ops II<\/em>) and Polt (StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm<\/em>) taking home the first place titles.<\/strong>\u00a0 During the event, MLG announced the next Pro Circuit Championship will take place in Columbus, Ohio, from November 22 \u2013 24.\u00a0 Additional details will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

In an MLG first, top professional athletes joined video game players on Saturday to showcase their skills in an All Star Showdown<\/a>. Dwight\u00a0Howard – Los Angeles Lakers, Dez Bryant \u2013 Dallas Cowboys,\u00a0Ty Lawson \u2013 Denver Nuggets\u00a0and\u00a0DeJuan Blair\u00a0\u2013San Antonio Spurs competed in front of thousands. Howard also joined MLG’s Chris Puckett and Mike “Hastro” Rufail in the casting booth to help commentate.
\nVOD of the MLG Spring Championship can be accessed at MLG.tv and photos are available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MLG Spring Championship Winners<\/span><\/strong>
\nLeague of Legends<\/em> :<\/strong>
\n1st<\/sup> – FXOpen eSports<\/strong> – $20,000 and a spot in the LCS Season 4 Spring Promotion Tournament
\n2nd<\/sup> – Complexity – $5,000
\n3rd<\/sup>\/4th<\/sup> – Curse Academy, Aware Gaming<\/strong> – $2,500<\/p>\n

Call of Duty\u00ae: Black Ops II on Xbox 360\u00ae<\/em><\/strong>:
\n1st<\/sup> \u2013 CompLexity – $20,000
\n2nd<\/sup> – Icons Impact – $12,000
\n3rd<\/sup> – OpTic Gaming- $7,000
\n4th<\/sup> \u2013 Curse – $4,000
\n5th<\/sup>\/6th<\/sup> \u2013 FaZe – $2,300
\n5th<\/sup>\/6th<\/sup> \u2013 Unite Gaming – $2,300
\n7th<\/sup>\/8th<\/sup> \u2013 IcoNs ConqueR – $1,200
\n7th<\/sup>\/8th<\/sup> \u2013 vVv Gaming – $1,200<\/p>\n

StarCraft\u00ae II: Heart of the Swarm\u2122: <\/em><\/strong>
\n1st<\/sup> \u2013 CMStorm Polt – $10,000
\n2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Quantic HyuN- $6,000
\n3rd<\/sup>\/4th<\/sup> \u2013 Liquid Hero – $3,000
\n3rd<\/sup>\/4th<\/sup> \u2013 Alliance Naniwa – $3,000
\n5th<\/sup>\/6th<\/sup> \u2013 StarTale Sound – $1,000
\n5th<\/sup>\/6th<\/sup> \u2013 STX Soul Dear – $1,000
\n7th<\/sup>\/8th<\/sup> \u2013 EG Jaedong – $500
\n7th<\/sup>\/8th<\/sup> \u2013 ROOT Sage – $500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major League Gaming (MLG) shattered previous records with more than 21,000 competitors and fans attending the three-day Spring Championship in Anaheim, CA.\u00a0 From June 28-30, hundreds of the world\u2019s best players competed for $105,000 in prizes with FXOpen eSports (League of Legends), CompLexity (Call of Duty: Black Ops II) and Polt (StarCraft II: Heart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8887,8886,2590],"class_list":["post-30099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-complexity-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii-and-polt-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm","tag-esports-league-of-legends","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}