FTW with Imad Khan: An Esports and Competitive Gaming Podcast

For the final episode of FTW with Imad Khan, Cale Michael returns to the show one last time to discuss Street Fighter VI, Mortal Kombat's semi-reboot and Tekken 8 impressions. ...

LCS viewership saw a steady decline in viewership throughout the Spring Split. Average viewership was at 109,000 or 14.8 million hours watched. That's down 22% from the summer of 2022. Jordan Fragen o...

CLG has officially been acquired by NRG, with only its League roster staying afloat. Digiday's Alex Lee returns to the podcast to discuss. ...

Valve announced Counter-Strike 2, a free follow-up to the incredibly popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or CS:GO. Along with graphical overhauls, Valve is making some technical changes in CS2. ...

Beyond the Summit, an esports event organizer, laid off its entire staff. The company is known for putting on intimate invite-only tournaments in Super Smash Bros., DotA and other games. The format al...

Jacob Wolf reported earlier this month that Overwatch League teams have come together to collectively bargain with publisher Activision Blizzard. Teams are looking for economic relief after high costs...

Last week, Jiseok Lee of South Korea won the Pokémon VGC San Diego Regional, netting himself $3,000 in prize money. He used an unorthodox tactic to defeat his opponent 8-2. To explain the competitive ...

Last month, cryptocurrency exchange FTX went bust. Owner Sam-Bankman Fried, and his friends, misused customer money in risky investments. The crash of FTX sent the crypto market spiraling downward. FT...

Nintendo abruptly shut down the Smash World Tour weeks before the finals were to take place. In a long statement, VGBC, the company behind the tour, said Nintendo refused to approve broadcast licensin...

League of Legends free agency is happening right now and reports are surfacing of Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok fielding offers from North American teams. Also, it seems that Doublelift and Bjergsen are reun...

League of Legends World Championship 2022 concluded this past weekend, bringing one of most memorable storylines in League history. It was a South Korean grand finals with DRX and T1, helmed by Deft a...

DigiDay published an article earlier this month about the low freelancer rates found in esports journalism. It focused on Gamurs Group, the same company that owns Dot Esports. Rates can be as low as $...

G2 Esports Drama Recap ft. Scott Robertson...

ESL Pro League Season 16 concluded over the weekend. The Finals were between Team Vitality and Team Liquid. Freelance reporter Mateusz Miter returns to FTW to discuss....

Twitch has banned gambling after much outcry from the platform's top creators. But gambling streams have been a part of Twitch for decades, with many calling afoul of Twitch's latest move. Oscar Gonza...

Jacob Wolf returns to the show to talk about ZeRo's lawsuit ending and his attempts to return to the scene. ...

Cloud9 Beat 100 Thieves to Take 2022 LCS Finals ft. Ethan Garcia...

Valorant Champions 2022 Preview ft. Scott Robertson...

Cale Michael reports from Evo 2022. ...

Preston Byers returns to talk Riot Games' $100 million lawsuit. ...

Preston Byers...

Adam Fitch Returns to talk Inven Global shutdown....

TSM accuses Godlike of poaching Shadow. ...

Cale Michael Returns to the show to discuss Street Fighter 6. ...

Preston Byers joins the show to talk Call of Duty League's Major III....

OG wins Stockholm major Cale Michael jumps on the show to discuss. ...

MSI 2022 is taking place in South Korea. Chinese teams such as Royal Never Give Up, or RNG, are having to play from China due to Covid restrictions. To accommodate competition, Riot has implemented a ...

The open beta for Overwatch 2 launched late last month with a huge flurry of interest. The game immediately broke viewership records on Twitch, with 460 thousand viewers in less than two hours and a h...

The LCS Spring Finals took place in Houston last weekend. Evil Geniuses beat both Team Liquid and 100 Thieves in a 3-0 shutout. It was also the first in-person major League event since the start of th...

Last week, China's League of Legends Pro League, or LPL, banned LGD's Chen "Jay" Bo for life for match-fixing, per a statement made on social media platform Weibo. Jay will also be forbidden from stre...

As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, the VALORANT Champions Tour, or VCT, has Russian players facing restrictions from competing. This affects Fnatic and FunPlus Phoenix who reportedly were...

G2 Esports has filed a lawsuit against blockchain company Bondly, which was set to develop the sale of NFTs for the brand. G2 claims that Bondly misled leadership and is seeking $5.2 million dollars i...

With COVID now trending downward, the fighting games scene is slowly starting to open up in-person events. Evolution (EVO) will return to Las Vegas this year and the Smash World Tour will finally come...

Due to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, much of the esports industry, along with most nations, have showed support for Ukraine, including sending donations to humanitarian efforts and conde...

Russia has declared war on Ukraine. The esports scene in Europe is tied greatly to Russia and its neighboring countries. Alraedy, orgs such as G2 Esports, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Astralis, and others have ...

Last month, a 14-year-old boy in Lahore, Pakistan, shot his family dead. Police claim that he was "under the influence" of PUBG Mobile. In a statement, police said, "The PUBG addict boy confessed to h...

Motif Esports, a U.K. based esports organization has completely disbanded, deleting its website and Twitter profiles in the process. Two members of its all-female VALORANT team alleged to have experie...

Last month, Savvy Gaming Group purchased both ESL and FACEIT Group in a massive $1.5 billion dollar deal. Savvy is fully backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and is essentially the esports ...

On back-to-back episodes of FTW, we're talking shooters. This week, it's the Call of Duty League's turn in the spotlight. It, as well as its sister league in the Overwatch League, will be feeling the ...

Halo esports is back, and with the launch of the newest title in the series, Halo Infinite, the scene is off to a great start. After a couple of Majors and some Pro Series tournaments, Cloud9 stand at...

2021 was an interesting year for esports. The first part of the year was quiet, with COVID still raging and vaccination programs getting off the ground. But as the year progressed, some players were b...

p>Last week saw the conclusion of the first ever Valorant Champions Tour. European team Acend took home the gold and a hefty $350,000 as well. They beat Gambit Esports 3-2. Teams were also paid 50% of...

Last week, esports team Panda Global launched a Kickstarter for a new pro-level GameCube controller. This controller was made to address the inconsistencies that Smash players face when hunting down a...

On Nov. 16, Kirsten Grind, Ben Fritz and Sarah Needleman of The Wall Street Journal put out a bombshell report regarding Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. Earlier this year, California's Depar...

Free Agency is upon us for League of Legends where teams are expected to make major bids for top players with expiring contracts. Underscoring the hundreds of thousands in salaries that are likely goi...

The Activision Blizzard saga rumbles on, with the ramifications of the DFEH lawsuit of earlier this year and the other controversies surrounding the company in 2021 finally affecting the company's gam...

The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PGL Major 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden is underway. It's the first CS:GO Major since StarLadder Major in Berlin in 2019, meaning that PGL's highest-ever prize pool is...

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is the new hotness in the Smash scene. No, really. The game's technical intricacies and fast pace have impressed veterans of the scene such as Adam "Armada" Lindgren, one of...

Russia's Team Spirit shocked the world of DotA 2 when it took home The International 10 and its hefty $18.2 million prize. The win was so big that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put out a state...

The 2021 League of Legends World Championship is taking place in Reykjavík, Iceland. The competition features T1, MAD Lions, FunPlus Phoenix, Cloud9 and other top teams. The event was originally desig...