Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen was spotted posing for a photo with his very own personalised Team Falcons jersey during the Monaco Grand Prix.
The four-time World Drivers’ Championship winner wasn’t able to win over the weekend but he was able to celebrate Red Bull’s newest sponsorship deal with Team Falcons whose representatives made an appearance at the race.
Falcons and Red Bull have crossed paths recently, with Team Falcons Vega winning the Red Bull sponsored Instalock 2025 early in May.
Amazon’s Prime Video are releasing a five-part documentary series which takes a look behind the scenes of the inaugural Esports World Cup in 2024.
The major event held tournaments for 22 different game titles, including League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Call of Duty, with a combined prize pool of $62.5 million (£46m).
The Esports World Cup: Level Up documentary will premiere on Friday, June 6th, with subsequent episodes releasing weekly.
The series has been produced by Sony Pictures Television’s documentary filmmakers ‘This Machine’ and has been directed by Emmy Award-winning director R.J.
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The inaugural Streamer University hosted by Kai Cenat concluded with an awards ceremony featuring a surprise cameo from Drake.
Streamer University was a weekend-long boot camp held at the University of Akron in Ohio, where 120 content creators lived a student lifestyle while live streaming on their Twitch channels.
Cenat’s opening “Orientation Day” stream attracted 10 million viewers on Thursday, May 22, 2025. The event concluded on Sunday, May 25, with a closing ceremony and awards show.
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Following Furia Female’s win over Supernova Comets in the ESL Impact League Season 7 final, competitors have faced a torrent of online abuse from several angles.
The presence of transgender competitors on the Supernova Comets roster sparked pointed criticism of the inclusion of gender minorities in the Women’s League, specifically regarding the recognition of transgender women in the women’s esports space.
ESL Impact Season 7 Grand Finals
ESL Impact Season 7 concluded on the LAN stage during DreamHack Dallas on May 25th, 2025, attracting a peak online viewership of 102,644 according to Esports Charts and a sizeable in-venue crowd.
The closely fought Best-of-3 series saw Furia Female edge ahead of Supernova Comets to lift the trophy, an achievement that also represents a significant win for the South American region.
However, the achievements of both teams on stage were overshadowed by aggressive online discourse during the tournament.
The discourse surrounded the inclusion of transgender players in the tournament – a point of contention that is not isolated to ESL Impact and has been raised across multiple titles across the women’s esports scenes.
Impact of ESL Impact on the players
The effect on ESL Impact on its competitors has been apparent, particularly from the words of Supernova’s Lucy “empathy” Verkaik.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) she said, “I poured my heart and soul into this game and have tried so hard to get better and yet all I get told is to kill myself.” In her post, she also admitted, “I’m so tired of seeing all the hate every day, I just want to be left alone and treated like a human being doing what I love.”
THE COMETS HAVE LANDED IN THE #IEM ARENA ☄️@SNComets #ESLImpact pic.twitter.com/pDUpA8tdEm
— ESL Impact (@ESLImpact) May 25, 2025
With the highest rating out of the finals competitors, with a 56-43 Kills to Death ratio, empathy attracted a significant portion of the backlash against Supernova Comets.
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McLaren Racing has announced that Lucas Blakeley will depart McLaren Shadow after three seasons with the F1 sim racing team.
The Scottish sim racer and boyhood McLaren supporter has been with the team since 2022.
McLaren in a statement confirmed that Blakeley would leave the team.
They wrote: “McLaren Racing today announced Lucas Blakeley’s departure from the McLaren Shadow F1 Sim Racing Team.
“Lucas joined the McLaren Shadow F1 Sim Racing Team in 2022 and secured a Drivers’ and Teams’ Championship double in his first season.
Continue reading Former F1 Esports champion Lucas Blakeley leaves McLaren Shadow team
Danish Counter-Strike caster Jacob ‘Pimp’ Winneche has announced his first foray into football commentary for the Chelsea vs Real Betis match in the UEFA Conference League final.
The 29-year-old will take on the new role with Disney+, which will broadcast the clash on Wednesday, May 28th 2025, in Denmark.
Pimp, a former professional Counter-Strike player, has spent over a decade as an analyst and caster for major esports events.
He will now apply that experience to football commentary, a move that highlights a growing connection between esports and traditional sports broadcasting.
Several British streamers are set to co-stream the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) 2025 Game Changers EMEA Stage 2 over the coming month.
The list of English-language streamers includes GiantX streamers, Daniela ‘Jupi’ Gradl and Tenshi, Fnatic content creator and VCT host Megan ‘megsoundslikeegg’ Garner, Founder of Burnt Steak Media and VCT observer Jack Igoe, and streamer Beechu.
VCT Game Changers EMEA Stage 2 kicked off yesterday in the Group Stage as SK Nebula with Scottish player Jade ‘jademwah’ Duffy, defeated BLVKHVND.
Team Vitality were crowned Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Dallas 2025 champions on the weekend to continue what might be one of the greatest win streaks the world of esports has ever seen, let alone Counter-Strike.
British pro William ‘mezii’ Merriman and the rest of his Counter-Strike 2 teammates swept MOUZ without dropping a map, winning 3-0 in the final inside Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Centre.
Vitality hardly broke a sweat during the tournament, as teams were unable to take more than one map against the dominant French organisation.
Continue reading Team Vitality and Mezii win IEM Dallas to extend historic win streak
Riot Games’ Global Head of Valorant Esports, Leo Faria, has issued a statement following allegations of match-fixing issues in Challengers North America.
This follows after Shopify Rebellion general manager and content creator Sean ‘sgares’ Gares brought to light allegations of ‘match-fixing, cheating and underground gambling rings,’ in North America’s second tier of competitive Valorant.
Over the weekend, Gares published a video almost an hour long titled “The Dark Side of Competitive Valorant.” Then on the same day, not long after the video’s release, Riot issued its own official statement.
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Netflix have announced a new movie called Kpop Demon Hunters and the trailer has immediately brought back a flood of League of Legends’ virtual Kpop group, K/DA.
The animated film has been developed by Sony Pictures Animation, the makers of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
The trailer stars a K-pop girl group trio, Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo) who have a secret second life fighting otherworldly threats and have to deal with a bunch of demons posing as a rival boy band.
Continue reading Netflix’s Kpop Demon Hunters draws League of Legends K/DA comparisons