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Saudi Gazette
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Saudi Gazette
Riot Games joins Esports World Cup 2025
THE ES TIMES — The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a three-year global partnership with Riot Games, including VALORANT officially joining the Esports World Cup (EWC) 2025 lineup. League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics will also return for another year of top-level competition. A Major Step Toward the Future of Competitive Gaming This partnership is more than just an announcement; it represents a true commitment to the future of esports globally. As a follower of Riot's titles since their inception,seeing these games take center stage in Riyadh is exciting. VALORANT will make its debut at EWC outside of the VCT format, while League of Legends will host a major international event, and TFT will highlight the best players in a unique team format. Expanding Esports' Global Impact With 23 tournaments confirmed across 22 titles so far, EWC 2025 aims to be the largest event in esports history. Games span genres such as FPS, MOBA, Battle Royale, Strategy, and Fighting Games. The addition of VALORANT further cements EWC's position as a premier hub for elite gaming. This three-year agreement ensures Riot Games' biggest titles will be on the global scene for years to come. Early Commencement of Commercial Cooperation As part of the agreement, EWCF will be commercially linked to Riot Games' major tournaments, such as LoL Esports, VALORANT Champions Tour, and TFT 2025. EWC and Riot Games' collaboration officially begun during the VCT Masters Bangkok on February 20, 2025, with EWC-branded on-site activities at Riot Games' global physical events, further enhancing the global esports presence and increasing engagement with Valorant and League of Legends fans. Riot's Cultural Influence Gains Global Recognition Fabian Scheuermann, Head of Gaming at the EWCF, praised Riot's role in shaping the modern esports landscape: 'With the legendary League of Legends World Championship, VALORANT cultural collaborations, and community-driven TFT events, Riot has built an ecosystem that goes beyond competition. By bringing these titles to the Esports World Cup, we're not just celebrating the highest levels of play—we're together expanding the esports movement globally.' His words echo what many in the gaming community, including myself, feel: Riot's influence extends beyond gaming. Legendary Moments Back in Riyadh Last year, League of Legends achieved a momentous moment when T1, led by Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, won the final in front of 12.5 million viewers. In Teamfight Tactics, Wolves Esports defeated T1 3-1, led by Li "LiShao" Chengyu. EWC 2025: A Celebration of Esports Culture Riyadh will once again host the Esports World Cup 2025, bringing together gaming communities from around the world. From casual observers to hardcore fans, there's something for everyone. Mehdi Belhamra – Esports and Gaming writer
Daily Mail
18-06-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
Scientists capture the most detailed image of a galaxy yet – covering an area about 65,000 light-years wide
As far as galactic pictures go, this one's a masterpiece. Astronomers have created an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy, covering an area around 65,000 light-years wide. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, they captured more than 100 exposures detailing thousands of colours. And the result is this stunning composite of pink and blue hues that provide a snapshot of the lives of stars within it. The Sculptor Galaxy, which is one of the brightest visible in the night sky, is located 11 million light-years away. It is a spiral galaxy that can be seen in the Southern Hemisphere sky and is so bright because it's what's known as a 'starburst galaxy', meaning it is undergoing very high rates of star formation. To create this new map, researchers observed the galaxy for over 50 hours. They then stitched together more than 100 exposures to cover an area of the galaxy around 65,000 light-years wide. According to co-author Kathryn Kreckel from Heidelberg University in Germany, this makes the map a potent tool. 'We can zoom in to study individual regions where stars form at nearly the scale of individual stars, but we can also zoom out to study the galaxy as a whole,' she said. In their first analysis of the data, the team uncovered around 500 planetary nebulae - regions of gas and dust cast off from dying Sun-like stars. Co-author Fabian Scheuermann, a doctoral student at Heidelberg University, said: 'Beyond our galactic neighbourhood, we usually deal with fewer than 100 detections per galaxy.' Because of the properties of planetary nebulae, they can be used as distance markers to their host galaxies. 'Finding the planetary nebulae allows us to verify the distance to the galaxy — a critical piece of information on which the rest of the studies of the galaxy depend,' said Adam Leroy, a professor at The Ohio State University, USA, and study co-author. Since a galaxy's building blocks – stars, gas and dust – emit light at different colours, the more shades of colour there are in an image the more researchers can learn about its inner workings. And as this map comprises thousands of colours, astronomers can work out the age, composition and motion of the stars, gas and dust within. 'Galaxies are incredibly complex systems that we are still struggling to understand,' researcher Dr Enrico Congiu, who led the study, said. Here, experts have enhanced the image by assigning colours to different wavelengths of light, which are naked to the human eye. This false-colour composition shows specific wavelengths of light released by hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen. The pink light represents gas excited by the radiation of newborn stars, while the cone of whiter light at the centre is caused by an outflow of gas from the black hole at the galaxy's core. 'The Sculptor Galaxy is in a sweet spot. 'It is close enough that we can resolve its internal structure and study its building blocks with incredible detail, but at the same time, big enough that we can still see it as a whole system. Future projects using the map will explore how gas flows, changes its composition, and forms stars all across this galaxy. 'How such small processes can have such a big impact on a galaxy whose entire size is thousands of times bigger is still a mystery,' Dr Congiu added. This research was presented in a paper accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE IS A POWERFUL GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENT IN CHILE The European Southern Observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is called the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is widely regarded as one of the most advanced optical instruments ever made. It consists of four telescopes, whose main mirrors measures 27 feet (8.2 metres) in diameter. There are also four movable six feet (1.8 metre) diameter auxiliary telescopes. The large telescopes are called Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun. The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on April 1, 1999. The telescopes can work together to form a giant 'interferometer'. This interferometer allows images to be filtered for any unnecessary obscuring objects and, as a result, astronomers can see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes. It has been involved in spotting the first image of an extrasolar planet as well as tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It also observed the afterglow of the furthest known Gamma Ray Burst.
