Valentin Tuckson

With Apex Legends ' first official Ranked Series winding to a close and another fresh season looming on the horizon, competitive players are gunning for those highly coveted Ranked Points harder than ever. This means that everyone is bringing their A-game to the Ranked queues, and that you're going to need to do the same if you're still grinding ranks to secure those sweet exclusive rewards for the next t Finally, after years of mediocre performance and fierce competition from games like League of Legends , the Proleague was discontinued in 2016. Blizzard had very badly dropped its Golden Goose of a franchise that could have gone on to dominate the esports wo If you're still struggling to pack away Ranked Points or you seem to have hit the dreaded "Gold Wall," don't panic yet. You might just need to adopt a few new tips, tricks, or strategies to up your game, which is precisely why we're here today. Keep scrolling to check out ten pro tips for upping your game in the ranked leagues of Apex Legends and take a few of them back to the grind with Queuing up with randoms isn't an ideal situation to begin with, but there's no need to make it any worse by completely disregarding them. If you're queuing alone or with a single friend, take the extra step to extend an olive branch towards your randomly selected companion. It might just be a match-winning m Rocket League is teaming up with Stranger Things for Halloween this year for the Haunted Hallows event, which offers an Upside Down version of the Farmstead map for players to use. There's even a great big Mind Flayer looming over the field, to give players a little extra spook. And the Halloween in-game currency, Candy Corn, can be used to acquire a bunch of new themed it League of Legends is one of the most popular titles available in the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre . Debuting on October 27 th , 2009, League has dominated conversations between fans of the genre for over a decade, featuring a roster of more than 100 playable characters and tons of customization opti Apex Legends' Fight or Fright event began on October 15 and will run until November 5. Fight or Fright will bring players to a nighttime version of the Kings Canyon map, where regular matches will take a creepy turn: once a player dies, rather than going to the end-game screen, their character will be reanimated as an undead version of themselves. Then the undead players will go after the living ones, who will have to band together once only 10 survivors remain to reach an evac s It took years for any manner of reconciliation to occur. Even then, it was purely done for business reasons, resulting in all teams playing in the Proleague as the main space for competition. This merging into one space over-saturating the player market: since there were many more teams vying for the top spots and sponsorship, large numbers of popular players retired and many fans lost interest as their favorites left the sc However, they seem to be content to sit in the pit they've dug for themselves. The Blizzard of today seeks to execute an entirely different vision than the Blizzard of twenty, and even ten years ago. Past performance is often a strong indicator of future action, and if in the future Blizzard were to gut Hearthstone's esports and development team to reinvest into Call of Duty and Candy Crush , there would be no reason to be surpri It’s more than a semantic concern, however. Unlike traditional sports, it’s nearly impossible to tune in to games that you don’t play personally. For instance, I’ve never been into Overwatch , and although I understand how the gameplay works, Overwatch League is completely unenjoyable to watch. You can’t appreciate the level of difficulty that certain moves take to execute unless you’ve attempted them yourself. This rule is almost universally applied across all of esports. Unlike traditional sports, where pure athleticism can be appreciated void of any tactical or technical knowledge, esports requires a higher degree of familiarity. At best Thresh runes, this means that viewership rarely crosses between games. At worst, this means esports isn't viewer-friendly and may never have what it takes to reach wider audien Hearthstone 's limited-time Doom in the Tomb event has players facing the Headless Horseman inside Uldaman over a three-week period. In the third week, players can also take advantage of a new Tavern Brawl that rotates enemies around the board after each turn. Finally, an Arena costume party will let players pick a Hero and Hero Power before then drafting cards from both classes. Doom in the Tomb runs from October 8 through October Pokemon GO is, as usual, a little more family-friendly with its Halloween 2019 event. Players can catch versions of the four starter pokemon in cute Halloween costumes , including Pikachu dressing up as Mimikyu. There are also lots of goodies for trainers, special Field Research assignments, and the chance to battle against Darkrai in a five-star r