Issue 02

Yimmie aiming to conquer
the eDivisie
PS4 specialist Jimmy Donkers aka Yimmie has signed for Feyenoord
and will be representing the team in the coming eDivisie season.
Earlier this month Yimmie had booked his place in the eWorld Cup Grand
Final that is taking place at the O2 in London at the beginning of August.
Commenting on his move Yimmie added: “With a lot of pride I can
say that I will be playing for this beautiful club again next year I will
also make my debut in the @E_Divisie on the PS4 I want to thank @
teamBundled and @Feyenoord for the opportunity and trust they
have given me!”
U’s gain promotion
Oxford United’s eSports side won promotion at their first attempt,
finishing second in the VPG League One South. Promotion has seen
them enter the Championship South this coming season where they
will face a sterner test.
Oxford scored nine goals in three different games, hit eight on two
occasions and also scored 121 league goals.
The side lost just twice in the league all season, both times to the
eventual champions, Elite.
Director Damon Graham is reported as saying “With five games to go
we were one point ahead of Elite but they beat us 1-0 to go clear at
the top.
We won 3-0 in the following game and then won emphatically 9-1 in a
game we dominated.
“In a second against third clash we went 1-0 up but were pegged back
by a late goal to draw 1-1 with Red Birds. In the last game of the season
we wanted to end on a high, which we did, beating Warriors Elite 5-1.”
FC Bayern Munich’s club
president veto’s eSports plan
Having been poised to enter the eSports industry it now looks as if
German football club FC Bayern Munich have scrapped their plans.
With plenty of traditional football teams getting involved with
esports, Ajax and Man City already have their very own pro
esport players, Germany’s biggest club Bayern Munich have
decided not to follow suit if reports in German paper Blind are
anything to go by.
VFL Wolfsburg, RB Leipzig and FC Schalke 04, already have their own
professional eSports departments and reports suggested that FC
Bayern had put aside a budget of five million euros to fund and buy
esports stars to compete at the highest level.
VFL Wolfsburg partners up
with Vodafone
The club was the first German Bundesliga side to enter the eSports
arena back in 2015 and have recently launched Wolves E-Academy,
a FIFA eSports team that develops budding talent in FIFA.VFL
Wolfsburg’s existing sponsors include CosmosDirekt, UPS Germany,
effect, and Turtle Beach.
Dr. Tim Schumacher, managing director of VFL Wolfsburg stated:
“We have already worked together on many exciting projects
and are looking forward to implementing them very soon and
sharing them with our fans. The commitment of a company like
Vodafone is, not the least, a clear indication of just how rapidly
developments in esports are currently proceeding and shows us
that we are already on the right path.”