Type of site News, Live Coverage Website gamurs.com | Available in English | |
Owner Riad Chikhani and Phillip Luu Slogan(s) Connecting the global gaming community Launched 14 February 2016; 12 months ago (2016-02-14) | ||
GAMURS is an esports multi-media company. The company is based in Sydney, Australia and was founded by Riad Chikhani, Phillip Luu, Halim Yoo, Carl Oehme and Malik Akl.
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History
It was launched on February 14, 2016 after a merge between teamfind.com and csgoteamfinder.com. On April 26, 2016 GAMURS acquired websites eSports-Nation.com and eSports.guru. In doing so, GAMURS expanded its esports coverage into Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Halo 5: Guardians, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and Overwatch (video game). On June 11th, 2016 GAMURS launched EsportsWikis, an online encyclopedia dedicated to esports knowledge. On August 26th, 2016 they acquired CSGOSquad, a Counter Strike ranking database. On September 19th, 2016 GAMURS acquired esports news outlet SplitPush.net. On October 28th, 2016, GAMURS acquired Dot Esports.
GAMURS.com
GAMURS' main website, gamurs.com, offers numerous services. The two most prominent are the team finding capabilities, acting as a community hub for numerous video games, as well as their esports journalism and content production. Their writing team includes Ryan "Veto" Kish, Patrick Cowley, Connor Bradley, Max Littman, Duncan "Thorin" Shields, and Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen. The writing team is managed by Managing Editor Justin "Bink" Binkowski. The site recently launched a live updates portal on their website to live cast esports games.
EsportsWikis
Following a dispute between the Esportspedia staff and their parent company, Azubu TV, the Esportspedia president, Megan "RheingoldRiver" Cutrofello, along with the community staff that maintained the website joined GAMURS to create EsportsWikis. EsportsWikis works to provide encyclopedic coverage of numerous esports games including, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Halo (video game), VainGlory, Rocket League and Smite (video game).
Stat Tracking
GAMURS has launched numerous websites aimed at stat tracking for several video games. These sites include CS:GO Stats, CSGO Squad and Hearthstats.