Index of Feature Esports Articles

I’ve been writing esports articles for around 7 years at this point. In total, I’ve likely reached somewhere between 300–500 feature articles (this excludes blogs, previews, recaps, etc.) As that’s the case, I’ve decided to create an index of major articles I’ve written in the past. As this will be linking to a bunch of sites beyond just vpesports.com, I’ve posted the index here.

This is a post I wrote that collected a bunch of SC2 articles I wrote for TL as well as some misc. articles I wrote about CS:GO on splyce back when they still published esports content: https://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/481339-my-article-index

Now the bulk of this article will be linking old esports articles I wrote for slingshotesports. The problem is that the site was on the fritz, so what I’ll do here is list the titles of the feature articles I’ve written and I think are still relevant. Tweet me @stuchiuwriter or comment on this article if there was a specific article you wanted to read from the slingshotesports period and I’ll post it on Medium.

As for articles on VPesports, I’ll also list the titles of the feature articles here and you can use the search button to find them on the site. (https://www.vpesports.com/author/stephen-chiu/)

Articles from Slingshotesports:

CS:GO

1. End of the Love Story, s1mple and Hiko’s Last Run
2. Na`Vi vs LG, The Best Rivalry in CS:GO
3. Liquid’s Cinderella Run at the Major
4. JW, the Swedish Cowboy
5. The Swedish Schism
6. Brother vs Brother, HiKo vs s1mple
7. The AWP Rivalry of 2016: FalleN vs GuardiaN
8. Karrigan, The Car Builder
9. NiKo, s1mple, and Coldzera: The Generation of Miracles
10. The Rise and Fall of the Fnatic Empire
11. Life, Death, and Rebirth. The Art of Virtus.Pro
12. All Roads Lead to Virtus.Pro
13. Freedom for NiKo
14. The King Meets the Sickest, Shox and KennyS team up
15. A Tale of Two Dynasties: NiP and Fnatic
16. Mirrored Finals, Allu’s Redemption
17. Ascendancy, A Coldzera Story
18. The Hot and Cold Poles
19. Dev1ce vs KennyS
20. Whatever it takes, A fer story
21. In Three Days, A Karrigan Story
22. The Evolution and History of SK
23. Karrigan vs gla1ve, the Danish Chess Match
24. “I won’t give up before I win a motherfucking Major” — A Zeus Story
25. ESL NY 2016: A Tournament of False Promises
26. Liquid Democracy
27. Fortitude, a Boltz Story
28. The Tears of GuardiaN

Dota2:

1. Team Secret One Year Later — TI6 Preview
2. Cloud9 One Year Later — TI6 Preview
3. TI1 to TI6: The Flash Forward
4. Wings Take Flight: The Journey to TI6
5. PPD — Legacy
6. OG: Kings of Dota
7. KuroKy’s New Chapter
8. Resolut1on’s World Tour Goes to Europe

Other Esports:

1. INnoVation — Plato’s Terran
2. Breaker of Cycles, The Beast, the Icon — Daigo
3. The IdrA Archetype
4. One Last Time, One Last Night — Jaedong
5. Redemption for Hungrybox
6. Leffen’s Greatest Weakness is Himself

Multiple Esports:

1. Weight of the Name
2. The Game of Champions

There are others, but those were the main ones I remember. As for VPEsports:

CS:GO:

1. dev1ce the Tactical AWPer
2. Na`Vi, the Slumbering CIS Giant
3. AdreN and Hobbit, The Dual Stars of Gambit
4. Fearless, a k0nfig Story
5. Not Yet, a Virtus.Pro Story
6. Boldness and Courage, a Karrigan Story
7. Taking Control, A Tarik Story
8. Three Major Finals, A GuaridaN Story
9. Bounded Rationality, A look into the Mind of MSL
10. The Sword of Damocles, The Pressure at the Top
11. The Three Systems of CS:GO: Denmark, Karrigan, and FalleN
12. Olofmeister and KRIMZ, the Yin and the Yang
13. Transformation, A Mouz Story
14. The s1mple show is the best show in Esports
15. The G2 Thunderdome
16. Antifragility and the Black Swan, A SK Story
17. The Return, a NAF Story
18. Life After Death, A Steel Story
19. The s1mple Era
20. TACO, The Brazilian Shadow
21. Reintegration, A Magisk Story
22. Formative Myths: NiP vs VeryGames
23. Liquid Still Need the “It” Factor
24. Rebuild, A Daps Story
25. ChrisJ and NiKo, A Tale of Two Survivors
26. Dupreeh, The Man who did everything
27. The Perils of Leadership, The fall of Snax and Hobbit
28. A War of Ideals: The Reborn Rivalry of Astralis and FaZe
29. Fall of the Champions: Gambit and Cloud9
30. I want to Win, A GeT_RiGhT Story
31. Superstar among Superstars, a NiKo story
32. In the Clutch, a Xyp9x Story
33. Veni, Vidi, Vici, Pax Astralis
34. Tacitcal Supremacy, A Gla1ve Story
35. Dev1ce and S1mple, A tale of two AWPers
36. The Three best Farm Teams in CS:Go
37. Nowhere Left to Go, the FaZe Cul-de-sac
38. The Perfection of Astralis Highlights the Flaws of Other Teams
39. The Tautoligical Existence of the Greatest: Fnatic, SK and Astralis
40. Coutnterfactuals: What if the DH Winter Boost Scandal Didnt’ Happen?
41. From Superheroes to Systems, The Rise of Astralis and Liquid
42. How Fallen’s GMing took the Brazilians to the top
43. From Unheralded to undisputed, Astralis 2018
44. Karrigan is the Master of Chaos
45. The Breaking of Teams, Looking back on VP, SK and G2
46. Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted — The Astralis T-side
47. A Universe with Two Suns: Astralis and s1mple
48. Homecoming, An Allu Story

Dota2:

1. Puppy and KuroKy, Teammates turned Rivals
2. EternaLEnVy, an Anime Story
3. PPD vs EG, The Saga Begins
4. From EG to OpTic, the PPD System
5. The Greatest Trick Q ever pulled was getting Shiki to a TI Finals
6. Prince Fy Returns to the International
7. Salt of the Earth, The Petty Rivalries of TI8
8. Through Hell, to the Heavens, the OG Story
9. They Stood Back Up, the OG Victory at TI8
10. Secret 1.0, The Genesis of EU Dota
11. Over a Decade Later, A Puppey Story

Other Esports:

1. Leffen Kills his White Whale and wins EVO
2. Daigo’s Never-Ending Road
3. HungryBox’s Game
4. Fissure’s Revenge
5. Dallas Fuel, The Broken Kingdom
6. Effect, The Final Flame of the Dallas Fuel
7. The 0–40 Dream, I have Faith in the Shanghai Dragons
8. The 0–40 Dream is Reality
9. From Chasing Victories to Chasing the Strongest, A Tokido Story
10. Chasing Dreams, The Runaway Story
11. Strength Turned Weakness
12. The Paradoxical Mindset of Esports competitors
13. In Search of Meaning, a Crown Story
14. One Punch Man, How Element Mystic and Sp9rk1e Beat the GOATS

Multiple Esports:

1. Sword of Damocles