Today, the NBA 2K league took some important first steps by announcing the first 17 NBA teams to participate in the competition's 2018 season. First Supercell's hype train and now this? Punch my ticket, train person.

Clash Royale developer Supercell has just taken one huge step into esports with a new million dollar international tournament series. I'm cautiously optimistic about the approach.

From zero to overload. Or panic attack. Or insanity. You decide.

When, oh, when will LCS team owners start treating their players and staff like respectable employees and pay them the money they were already given by Riot to give to the players on time? I mean, at the very least, they should be able to do that, right? I suppose not.

Initially, I wanted to discuss the hype surrounding the potential of the coming engine and UI updates to CSGO, but ended up getting carried away in the hype by way of directing the ideal broadcast.

Since I've been out of the loop for so long, I've decided to go over some of the major results and news that I would've been keeping up with had I not taken a break.

The podcast has been quiet for a week. Lemme briefly make an excuse.

In this episode of the lowercase esports podcast, I'll go over the new revelations from Sports Business Daily that Blizzard is on the hunt for investors to join the OWL as franchisees for an unprecedented chunk of change.

If 2017 is going to belong to a particular up and coming business in esports, Smash.GG has to be on the top of that list. In this episode, I try to do that statement justice.

Capcom has made some tweaks to its premier ongoing SFV league, the Capcom Pro Tour, in the interest of making the tournament more of an international affair. In this episode, I'll summarize the changes and how they differ from last year's Tour.