Footage from a Savannah Bananas tryout

@jimthegreek18 This is what makes Banana Ball tryouts great 🍌⚾️ #savannahbananas #bananaball #creatorsearchinsights ♬ sonido original - sin nombre

Here's a good story if you want to know which NFL player to cheer for this season, and who to loathe

Good for you Sauce Gardner.

Philadelphia Eagles running back Boston Scott is a Grand Champion in Rocket League

"[P]utting him in the top .52% of over 6 million competitive players globally." 

Our Rocket League team just became more stacked. 💪

Welcome to @DignitasRL, @BostonScott2 - the first two sport NFL and Rocket League pro! pic.twitter.com/avrrDgBbds

— Dignitas (@dignitas) February 3, 2022

Look at how many people it takes to broadcast esports competitions

From a WaPo article about new first person shooter Valorant:

Broadcasting a first-person shooter can be extremely complicated, as the Overwatch League has demonstrated. Last season, for its broadcasts, the league had a production team of about 80 people sending out 30 video feeds. Included in this staff were six people whose whole job was to decide which in-game characters and camera angles to show.

Dirty tricks in the world of FIFA esports

Eurogamer:

[He] was on course to reach a Top 100 ranking when the pivotal game of the weekend disconnected during the dying moments.

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What makes this incident notable is [he] later claimed on Twitter this was his first disconnect in three years, raising suspicion of malicious actors attempting to sabotage his run. However, what [he] would reveal later that night would send shockwaves throughout the FIFA community.

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[He] tweeted several screenshots that showed pro players in the North American FIFA scene commenting on his run and conspiring to end it. He acquired these screenshots through a friend of his, a fellow pro player [who] was a part of a "dodging Discord", a server in which pro players conspire to avoid playing each other during the Weekend League, leading to easier games. (Imagine the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea were getting together to tinker with the Premier League fixtures list so they never had to play each other during a season.) But the FIFA pros were also "stream sniping" - that is, watching [his] Weekend League stream and searching for games at the same time in a bid to go up against him.

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EA eventually responded on Friday, 1st November, with a statement given to Eurogamer and a longer response posted on the EA website. Not only did EA acknowledge the existence of the dodging Discord, it imposed a two-qualifier ban on one of the most successful FIFA players of all time

"Did you know that Farming Simulator esports is a thing?"

ESO:

Beginning this summer, the Farming Simulator League spans 10 tournaments across Europe, culminating with Giants’ own FarmCon in summer 2020. With €250K ($284K USD) up for grabs

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The first Championship event debuted at AgriTechnica 2017, a farm-tech expo in Hanover, Germany. Ammann said that the event organizers thought Farming Simulator‘s presence might interest younger attendees, but nobody anticipated the level of demand. As seen in the photo below, the regular-sized booth was packed wall-to-wall with viewers to watch the three-player bale-stacking battles.

K-SWISS shoes designed for the Immortals eSports team

K-Swiss.