Welcome to Esports All Star, your #1 destination for all things esports. Like most things in the iGaming and gaming industry, esports continues to grow in the United States and around the entire world. Here at Esports All Star, we will keep you up to date with all esports news and our staff will also develop their content to keep you engaged in esports.
People might say that esports are not real sports, but this industry is expanding and money is to be made. As long as it remains competitive and lucrative, it’s as much of a sport as any of the other major world sporting leagues.
Esports All Star will keep you up to date with upcoming tournaments, new game releases, esports team news, and so much more.
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Esports Betting
The year is 2021. If you think of something, you probably can do it and that holds for betting on Esports. If you aren’t already intrigued with watching streamers or top competitive video game players give a try at wagering on it.
Esports betting is very similar to normal sports betting with just different things to bet on specific to the game that is being played. If you were to bet on Madden it is basically like betting on an NFL game as there is a Moneyline offering, a spread, and an over/under. In a madden head-to-head matchup you might not want to bet on the actual team, you want to bet on which person behind the sticks will perform better.
When betting on games like League of Legends and Call of Duty, it is also similar to normal sports betting as you can bet on a specific Call of Duty Team. Esports wagering is not as large as sports betting but it is an industry that is soon to break out.
Pandemic’s Effect on Esports
Video games are one of the most popular hobbies out there. Lucky for gamers when the Covid-19 Pandemic shut down most of the world gamers were able to just fire up their PC or console and continue to do what they love.
When people were stuck at home it sort of revitalized plenty of former gamers and allowed people who didn’t have time to play anymore to get back into things. eSports was extremely popular before the Pandemic, but it got plenty of more people fired up about both playing and streaming video games.
Games Esports All Star Will Cover
Esports All-Star prides itself on providing viewers with a host of different content related to Esports. Some of the specific sports that are covered on eSports All-Stars include Fortnite, MLB The Show, Madden, NBA 2k, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Valor, Rocket League, and many more.
Fortnite
For a couple of years now Fortnite has been one of the most popular games on the market with an unbelievable following for streamers. For a while, Fortnite has competed with Call of Duty as one of the most popular shooting video games.
Call of Duty is a war-based video game, but Fornite has embodied many of the same themes of Call of Duty with a completely different twist. Fortnite is an animated shooting game that allows you to enter an open map, where only the strong survive.
MLB The Show
MLB The Show is the only major league baseball video game on the market and the graphics in this game are unbelievable. The Show used to be a Playstation exclusive but this year’s game is offered on both the Playstation and Xbox. For Xbox users, it is exciting news as ever since MLB 2k was discontinued they have been unable to swing for the fences on the diamond.
MLB The Show offers a franchise mode, road to the show my player, play now, and the extremely popular Diamond Dynasty. Diamond Dynasty allows you to build a fantasy roster of current players and legends of the game.
Madden NFL
EA Sports’ most popular video Madden NFL has grown over the years and has become a major eSports community. Madden joined the game early back when they ran Madden nation, a television series where football fans would compete with their favorite team in a play now typesetting and sometimes even play against their favorite players.
Recently Madden has developed the Championship series that has been popular amongst top Madden players and has attracted plenty of viewers. Madden Championship series allows players to compete all season as the bracket continues to shrink and the rewards grow. Madden Championship series uses Madden’s online salary cap mode and the winner can take home as much as $65,000.
NBA 2K
NBA 2K displays some of the best graphics of all sports video games. When playing NBA 2K developers make sure to pay attention to almost every key detail including each drop of sweat on the players. 2K different modes including play now, franchise mode, my player, and my team which is a very popular online mode.
My team allows you to hand-select top current players and legends and bring a team to the court that you can only imagine existed in real life. My team allows you to fully customize your arena, jerseys, and team name. NBA 2k has professional teams that are also out there after partnering with the real NBA teams.
Rocket League
Rocket League is a rather fascinating game that combines bumper cars and soccer. Instead of playing as a person you simply drive around an open field where you crash into other cars and battle to push a much larger soccer ball into a net.
Rocket League emerged as a very popular game on the Playstation 4 after it was offered as the Playstation Plus free game of the month.
COD: Black Ops: Cold War
Call of Duty has been around for almost two decades now and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. This multiplayer first-person shooter offers a variety of competitive modes with customizable loadouts.
You fight against and alongside members of the COD community in game modes such as team deathmatch, domination, kill confirmed, and more on maps designed for 6v6 or 12v12 play. What separates Cold War from other versions of COD is the zombie’s mode.
In this mode, you and three others take on a bunch of Soviet zombies and upgrade your weapons as you try to survive for as many levels as possible.
COD: Warzone
Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale video game. In this battle, royale players can either play alone or on teams up to four and compete to be the last ones alive.
Each game you are playing against about 150 players and the map is continuously shrinking as there is a circle of gas the eventually covers the whole map. Players are constantly trying to avoid this gas as they try to survive their opponent’s bullets.
The last player or team to survive will be crowned the Warzone champion and will be awarded XP or other rewards.
Overwatch
Overwatch is a very colorful team-based multiplayer first-person shooter. There are over 2 dozen characters for a player to choose from. Those characters will fit be from one of these three class types.
Damage heroes that deal most of the damage to attack or defend control points, Tank heroes that can absorb a large amount of damage, and Support heroes that provide healing or other buffs for their teammates. The two most played game modes either involve holding and defending a point on the map or transporting a payload from one side of the map to the other.
FIFA
FIFA came out with their first game in 1993 and it was called “FIFA International Soccer”. EA has continued to create the best possible version of FIFA as the world and soccer evolve. FIFA is a soccer simulation video game with many different features and game modes.
Their most famous game mode is Ultimate Team. Ultimate Team allows players to build an all-star soccer team with players for different teams.
You can sell, buy, and trade players with real people around the world. You then compete against other players and move up tiers till you competing in the hardest tier against the best of the best.
Apex: Legends
Apex is another free-to-play multiplayer battle royale game that was developed by Respawn Entertainment and released in 2019. What’s different about this battle royale is how fast and futuristic the movement is.
In Apex there are up to 20 three-person squads or 30 two-person teams that will land on an island and search for weapons and armor before beginning the fight. Like other battle royales, the map is shrinking as the game goes on forcing players to keep moving and rotating around the map. The end goal is to be the last squad standing.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by Mojang. A sandbox video game is a game that allows the player to be creative to a large degree. Minecraft has no specific goals for the player to accomplish they have the freedom to choose how they want to play the game. You can choose from 5 different game modes and difficulty ranges from peaceful to hard.
With difficulty on peaceful hostile mobs that could hurt you won’t appear but when you switch the difficulty to hard players can starve to death and must watch out for mobs at all times.
This game gives you the option to either therapeutically build cool houses (Creative Mode) and forts or fight for your life as you try to survive (Survival Mode) in the world of Minecraft.
PUBG
PUBG is a player vs player battle royale shooter game. Up to 100 players will land and the maps and being their search for armor and weapons. Players can either choose to play alone, with a partner, or with a squad of up to 4 people.
Like any other great battle royale, the map shrinks every couple of minutes making players rotate and move in different locations so they cant hide in one spot for the whole game. The last man standing is crowned the winner.
League of Legends (LoL)
League of Legends is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena that was released in 2009. In this game, two teams of five players will go into head-to-head combat. Each player controls a character with unique abilities and powers and can level up during the match by collecting XP and killing nonplayer enemies called minions.
Summoners Rift is the most famous game mode where two teams compete to destroy the other team nexus which is guarded by enemy players and turrets. The nexus is located at the team’s base and a match can last from 15 minutes to an hour.
NHL 21
NHL 21 is an ice hockey simulation video game developed by EA Vancouver. NHL includes a career mode for players who wanted to either focus on the development of a single player or team. They also have an online mode that features four different modes.
The modes are a three-way free for all mode, an arcade-style 3v3 mode, 3v3 or 6v6 drop-in matches made up of different players, and 3v3 or 6v6 club matches. Let’s not forget about the best part of NHL which being able to beat the snot out of your opponent on the ice.