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Niemann’s interview with Piers Morgan was his biggest blunder in recent memory
Dot Esports, September 30, 2023
„…what they got was the equivalent of a hoary 1-star Yelp review written by a stocky British geezer, and some meme-worthy oddities from Niemann and his suited-up buddy. Now we’re left pondering the question: What are you supposed to do when your lawyer friend awkwardly puts his hand on your lap? A blunder, indeed.”
Flirting with the impossible: Machine’s gearing up for a new decade in esports
Dot Esports, April 26, 2023
„Having grabbed his esports opportunity with both hands in 2014, Alex “Machine” Richardson hasn’t let it go since. The multifaceted broadcast talent is mainly known for his work in the biggest CS:GO events in the world, but he has been involved with many crown jewels of the esports space, from the League of Legends European Championship to Dota 2’s The International. He shows no sings of stopping.”
Hikaru Nakamura: ‘Online chess as an esport is here to stay’
Dot Esports, August 29, 2022
“A lot of the chess purists keep saying how different online chess is from the over-the-board experience. There’s one problem with this: the winner of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour was Magnus. Recently, at the Rapid Chess Championship, I lost the final match to Ian Nepomniachtchi. He won the Candidates Tournament. You’re still seeing the same players at the top.”
Eleven pigs and the secret police: the story of BFC Dynamo –
These Football Times, February 5, 2018
“This is where having a powerful mass murderer as your primary cheerleader really showed its benefits. Not only were the best senior and youth players aggressively steered towards Berlin’s hip “new” side, but Mielke exerted considerable pressure on the referees as well. Formerly, Dynamo Dresden was the top dog of East German football, a team that wasn’t quite good enough to crack international competition, losing to Bayern Munich in 1974 and never making it past the quarter-finals of the European Cup. The head of the Stasi wanted something better. Following Dresden’s title win in 1978, the players were told by Mielke that “it was BFC Dynamo’s turn”.”
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