“We have a long history of competing on the PC platform, and we’re very excited to expand to touch screens. Vainglory has a rapidly growing competitive community that we want to be a part of from early on. We look forward to competing in future tournaments around the world” said Kemal Sadikoglu, Team Director at Team Secret.

2: Lunar New Year will arrive to the Halcyon Fold in February

Vainglory Update 1.14 will be a celebration of the Lunar New Year. The Halcyon Fold will have a new Lunar-themed map, including fireworks and other visually stunning effects. A new hero will enter the Fold, celebrating the Year of the Monkey: Ozo is an acrobatic jungler with distinct and rewarding weapon and crystal build paths. Ozo seeks out fights, bounces between targets (literally) and delivers devastating area-of-effect damage with his razor-sharp ring. We are also adding a new limited-edition Lunar New Year skin for Koshka, only available in Update 1.14, as well as introducing the Fury Rona Tier I skin. Full release notes for 1.14 coming soon!

3: We have partnered closely with VGL to move to a more unified global eSports Structure

We have hired the largest community-run Vainglory eSports organization, Vaingloryleague (VGL) to bring competitive Vainglory events to the community. VGL has run tournaments in Europe and North America, and we’re excited to announce that South America and Korea will have their own qualifying structures under the VGL umbrella. We look forward to the first-ever South American VGL Qualifiers as well as the first Southeast Asian official qualifier tournaments: the Tesseract Qualifier Series that will be organized by our community in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and India under the banner of Tesseract eSports.

Growing our global structure with VGL is a natural step for us, as the organization has been part of the larger Super Evil Megacorp family well before Vainglory launched globally. We are very pleased to have the founders Tomek “bluberryz” Borowka and Jonathan “DonJon” Sakoucky join our Super Evil team full-time. Our aim is to build a game together with our community that is played for decades to come also on the competitive front. We continue to work together with our community and will support other community-run initiatives as usual, including tournaments run around the globe.

4: Winter Championship Dates Confirmed - Tickets on Sale now

We have confirmed the dates for the Winter Championships! The eight top teams in Europe and North America will compete for the season’s championship and bragging rights. North American players will return to the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California March 11-13. In Europe, the event will be held at the London at the Gfinity Arena March 18-20! Tickets for both are now available and can be purchased for $12 at:

http://vainglorywinterna.eventbrite.com (North America)

http://vainglorywintereu.eventbrite.com (Europe).

Get your tickets now!

Also, check out this brand new video about last year’s eSports highlights: