The Lake
Welcome to The Lake, where I post esports and gaming articles :)

What happened to RTS games?
My introduction to PC gaming was Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games such as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Command & Conquer. It was a...
Do Ninja and Pokimane deserve to co-stream Valorant Masters?
On the 11th of March Riot confirmed the 4 Twitch partners they were allowing to co-stream VCT NA Masters. The list consisted of Shroud,...
Is TenZ’s Agent pool a bad fit for Sentinels?
2 days before the most important tournament Valorant has had yet, Sinatraa was benched from Sentinels after sexual misconduct allegations...
European Rust players just lost all their progress
Just after midnight on Wednesday the 10th, a fire broke out at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg, France. The building where the fire...
What is “tea-bagging” and why is it a problem in Valorant esports?
Tea-bagging is a term used in gaming to describe the action of crouching repeatedly on a dead opponent’s body, generally in the face, as...
Is Valorant the new standard for esport games?
Before its release in June 2020 Riot Games’ Valorant was known as “Project A”. Even under the ambiguous name, and before its completion,...







