Hello,

Last night I passed out watching Game 4 of TI3 Grand finals hoping to catch an archive of the final matches today.

Today I tuned into gamespot hoping to avoid spoilers regarding last night's TI3 DOTA 2 grand final. However, below the main header written for anyone it see is "Alliance win $1.43M at TI3...". Needless to say this was frustrating!

Prior coming to GS, i stopped by CVG.com to see if there was any new news regarding GTA V and I noticed an article titled "Triumphant DOTA 2 champions win $1.43M"

so without reading the flavour text below it(assuming there was said text) i left and came here only to have the whole bloody thing spoiled.

Now i dont know what your stance on this is. If i were trying to avoid learning of the winner of the NBA Finals i'd do well to avoid going to espn.com and the like...Which is a shame because there could be more than just that going around sports news circles.

The same is true of video game circles. Much more happened other than the DOTA 2 finals and I think you should cater to that buy ambiguously titling your ESports headlines and articles. Would your readership lose interest in said articles if they were written as such? I don't think so. But the crowd that visits this site is a fickle bunch so i dont know.

So, you could take the angle of "Well if you didn't want TI3 or the NBA finals Spoiled for you, why did you goto GS.com or NBA.com?"

OR

You could 'pioneer' ambiguously written ESport event headlines. Since the news isn't necessarily 'who won' but more along the lines of "Look at how much $ these people won playing VIDEOGAMES!!!!!!!1" you could simply re-target the articles for a more general audience and get more hits without spoiling it for folks who follow the teams themselves.

Here's a few ideas

"Triumphant DOTA 2 champions win $1.43 million at Valve's The International 3 Tournament"

"New DOTA 2 Champions win 1.43M playing videogames!!"

"Valve's The international 3 concludes, awarding over $3M in prize money"

"$1.43m awarded to dota 2 Champs"

"TI3 champs win $1.43M"

ect

but no, you chose to write Alliance in your headline. This boggles my mind because any casual observer of DOTA 2 esports probably doesn't know teams by name and any non-follower of DOTA 2 esports probably don't give a F about team names and simply will be amazed that over $3M in prize money was awarded. Any actual follower of DOTA 2 Esports will either know who won or are planning to find out who won, which they could've done by clicking on an ambiguous headline.

Please, in future, do not reveal results of Esports events on your front page. Make users visit the article itself to find out results. From EVO to TI, NO SPOILERS PLEASE!