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Fan Creates s1mple’s Portrait With Rubik’s Cubes

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Fan Creates s1mple’s Portrait With Rubik’s Cubes

Natus Vincere’s superstar Aleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev has a huge following of fans, which is no surprise as he has arguably been the best CSGO player in the world for a few years. Fans recreate his legendary plays in other games such as Minecraft and Roblox but this time a fan went the extra mile and made a portrait for s1mple. This wasn’t a regular portrait either as it was made using Rubik’s cubes.

Instagram user space.xxl posted the portrait he made 4 weeks ago. The portrait was based off of s1mple’s celebrations at IEM Katowice 2020, the last LAN event before the coronavirus pandemic. 

s1mple portrait using 204 Rubik’s Cube
by u/iwna in GlobalOffensive

The portrait was also posted to reddit by user u/iwna. Space.xxl used 204 Rubik’s cubes to recreate the iconic image of s1mple. 

This isn’t the first time that space.xxl has created a portrait of someone famous through Rubik’s cubes, he has previously made portraits of footballer Ronaldinho, actor Keanu Reeves as well as Team Spirit’s DOTA 2 team after they won The International 2021.

s1mple had previously posted the portrait on his instagram story as well, when space.xxl first posted it on 11th January.

s1mple’s Rough Start to 2022

After being the best player of 2021, winning a Major, a total of 8 MVPs and a plethora of other trophies, s1mple arguably had the best year ever for a CSGO Pro. He also became the first player to reclaim the #1 spot on HLTV’s top 20 list, something which hadn’t been done before. GeT_RiGhT had won for 2 consecutive years in 2013 and 2014, olofmeister in 2015, coldzera won consecutively in 2016 and 2017 and s1mple won in 2018. ZywOo then took the throne away from s1mple for 2 years, being #1 in 2019 and 2020 while s1mple was #2.

s1mple came back with all guns blazing as he wrecked everyone in his path to take back the #1 spot as ZywOo finished second and NiKo third.

NaVi and s1mple had somewhat of a rough start to 2022, as they lost their first official to MIBR. This was followed by another OT loss to Astralis and NaVi were on the verge of elimination. They then bounced back with a win against Team Liquid but lost to NiP. They finally took their revenge against Ninjas in Pyjamas in the Last Chance Stage and qualified for BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2022. The true test for NaVi and every other team for that matter would be at IEM Katowice, which starts on February 15th with the play-in stage. The playoffs for IEM Katowice 2022 will take place at the Spodek Arena, on LAN with a crowd. 

Which Teams Qualified for BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2022?

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Which Teams Qualified for BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2022?

The first Pro CSGO tournament, BLAST Premier Spring Groups, has just wrapped up. The event took place online due to coronavirus restrictions and featured a total of 12 teams. The 12 partner teams of BLAST, played out in a newer format. The format consisted of 3 Bo1s for seeding. The teams that one all 3 would go through to the Finals of the play-ins, the teams that won 2 would be in the semis and the teams that won 1 or 0 games would play in the elimination games. The new format received criticism from some people in the CSGO community as it allowed way too many chances for some teams even after they had lost multiple games.

WHO PARTICIPATED IN BLAST PREMIER SPRING GROUPS 2022?

Blast Premier Spring Groups featured 12 teams that are partnered with Blast received a direct invite. A lot of these teams were making their debuts with their new rosters such as G2 esports, FaZe Clan, Team Vitality, EG, and Team Liquid.

The teams at BLAST Premier Spring Groups were:

  • G2 
  • Complexity
  • BIG
  • NiP
  • Natus Vincere
  • MIBR
  • Astralis
  • OG
  • Team Vitality
  • FaZe Clan
  • Evil Geniuses
  • Team Liquid

WHICH TEAMS QUALIFIED FOR BLAST PREMIER SPRING FINALS 2022?

BLAST Premier Spring Groups had 6 spots up for grabs for the BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2022, that would take place on LAN. BLAST’s Season Finals events consist of just 8 teams, 6 of which qualify through the Season’s (Spring and Fall) Groups and the remaining 2 from the Season Showdown. 

6 teams from Spring Groups failed to qualify for the Finals and had to drop down to the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2022. 

The teams that did confirm their spot at BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2022 are:

  • G2
  • BIG
  • NaVi
  • FaZe Clan
  • Team Vitality
  • OG

WHO WILL PLAY AT THE BLAST PREMIER SPRING SHOWDOWN 2022?

Blast Premier Spring Showdown is a 16 team single elimination tournament which allows teams to qualify for the BLAST Premier Spring Finals. The Spring Showdown has a total of 16 teams, 7 of which are invited and the rest through qualifiers. This year the showdown has been divided into the North American Bracket and the EU bracket and each will have 8 teams.
The teams that will be at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2022 are:

  • MIBR
  • NiP
  • Astralis
  • Complexity
  • Evil Geniuses
  • Team Liquid
  • TBD- Invited
  • TBA – Asian Qualifier
  • TBA – Iberian Qualifier
  • TBA – North American Qualifier
  • TBA – Oceanic Qualifier
  • TBA – CIS Qualifier
  • TBA – Wester EU Qualifier
  • TBA – Easter EU Qualifier
  • Nordic Masters
  • FiReLEAGUE Latin Power

Here’s How Ex CSGO Pro PashaBiceps Entry Into MMA Went

Mohd Laraib
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Here’s How Ex CSGO Pro PashaBiceps Entry Into MMA Went

Former Professional Player and CSGO Legend Jarosław “pashaBiceps” Jarząbkowski forayed into the world of MMA, adding another medal to his esteemed name and career. Pasha has had a remarkable career in CSGO, winning various titles including a CSGO Major. After retiring from professional play, pashaBiceps turned to streaming and is signed to Team Liquid at the moment.

Apart from the world of esports, pashaBiceps is now an MMA fighter as well and participated in his first fight at the Polish Gala High League PL. pashaBiceps has been a keen gym enthusiast and Bodybuilder, hence the name, and has now taken the next step by starting his career in MMA.

Pasha took on Influencer and Bodybuilder Michal “OwcaWK” Owczarzak, and got through him with ease as he finished the bout in just 2 rounds. The fight isn’t your typical MMA fight but rather ‘dirty boxing formula with small gloves to MMA.’, according to the Polish Major winner. OwcaWk was also making his MMA debut with this fight and went toe to toe with pasha at the start.

In the first round, the battle was almost even as both showed signs of this being their debut fight. Towards the end though, pashaBiceps had a knockdown on his adversary Owca, which sent the bodybuilder stumbling. 

After getting back in his groove, round two started and owca tried to be aggressive towards pasha. pashaBiceps was all too aware and was able to dodge and land a right hook on his face. He followed it up with multiple blows to his face and cornered him until the referee had to step in and declare submission to strikes.

According to owca’s Instagram, he suffered a broken eye socket and a retina issue because of the fight.

There was an outpour of support for pasha from the world of esports. Be it Pro players like Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT’ Alesund, Alex ‘ALEX’ McMeekin and Gabriel ‘falleN’ Toledo, casters such as Jason ‘moses’ O’toole, Anders Blume, the official FACEIT Account, the VP of IEM ‘carmac’ or even the Official CSGO account, everyone changed their Twitter profile pictures to that of PashaBiceps, to show him their support.

The official CSGO account congratulated pasha after his fight as well. 

This isn’t the first time that high-profile celebrities are getting into the world of MMA. it started with KSI vs Logan Paul in 2019 and has continued since, with Logan Paul fighting Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. in June 2021 being the latest one.

pashaBiceps has no plans for stopping and said that this was only the beginning, signaling to the fact that he will continue his stint in MMA

Pokemon Unite Championship With $1 Million Prize Pool Revealed

Sonu Banerjee
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Pokemon Unite Championship With $1 Million Prize Pool Revealed

Over the past year, the free-to-play Pokemon MOBA title Pokémon Unite has taken the world by storm. With regular updates and a constantly growing player base, it is one of the most popular MOBAs out there and is available to play on multiple platforms including Android, Nintendo Switch, and iOS. 

While the esports scene behind the game hasn’t seen much traction yet, The Pokémon Company and Tencent-owned TiMi are looking to take things to the next level with a million-dollar Pokémon Unite championship that’s set to be organized soon. 

The details behind the heavily anticipated Pokémon Unite tournament have already been revealed, and fans are more excited than ever to know more about what the devs have in store for them.

Pokémon Unite Championship Series

The Pokémon Unite Championship Series will see teams across seven regions – North America, South America, Europe, Oceania, Japan, South Korea, and Asia-Pacific – battle it out to determine the best Pokémon Unite team in the world.

Players can participate in the tournament using the Nintendo Switch, iOS, or Android version of the game.

Each region will see two teams making it through to the World Finals with the exception of Oceania and South America, who’ll only have a slot each.

The regional qualifiers will reward participating teams with CP or Championship Points based on their performance. The teams with the most Championship Points will make their way through to the Regional Championships, while the best-performing teams in the regional Championships will qualify for the World Finals that’ll take place in London. 

The first open qualifier in the Pokemon Unite Championship is scheduled to kick off on February 19th and 20th.

Garena Free Fire removed from Google Play Store

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Garena Free Fire removed from Google Play Store

After being removed from the App Store, Garena Free Fire has been taken off from the Google Play Store. Garena Free Fire is one of the most popular games ever released in mobile gaming. Launched in 2017, the game has over 110 crore downloads worldwide on Google Play Store.

It has come as a surprise for all the fans from across the globe that the game has been removed from App Store and Play Store.

At present, no announcement has been made from the game’s publisher Garena or Apple, or Google as to why the game is missing from the App Store and Google Play Store.

Moreover, another version of the game, Free Fire Max has also been unavailable to download in App Store.

Recently, Krafton sued Garena and has accused them of copying PUBG: Battlegrounds. Krafton said in their lawsuit, “Free Fire and Free Fire Max extensively copy numerous aspects of Battlegrounds, both individually and in combination, including Battlegrounds’ copyrighted unique game-opening “airdrop” feature, the game structure and play, the combination and selection of weapons, armor, and unique objects, locations, and the overall choice of color schemes, materials, and textures.”

This could be the major reason behind the game getting removed from both the stores.

As of now, Players who were looking to download the game have to wait for a while. As there is no information on when the game will be available back on both the stores.

Garena Free Fire gets removed from Apple App Store

Divyesh Moghe
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Garena Free Fire gets removed from Apple App Store

Garena Free Fire has been delisted from Apple App Store in the last few hours. The reason behind removing Free Fire from their store was not released by Apple and Garena has not commented on it as well.

This could be a simple glitch but there are many things at play which could directly lead to the indefinite removal of Garena Free Fire from the official application stores.

Garena Free Fire is a popular battle royale game and shares a ton of similarities with PUBG Mobile.

Krafton has sued Garena for this exact reason and stated that they have created a “PUBG Replica” in their lawsuit.

The lawsuit was also extended to Google and Apple for distributing this alleged copies via their app stores. Krafton had said the following in their claims:

“Free Fire and Free Fire Max extensively copy numerous aspects of Battlegrounds, both individually and in combination, including Battlegrounds’ copyrighted unique game opening “air drop” feature, the game structure and play, the combination and selection of weapons, armor, and unique objects, locations, and the overall choice of color schemes, materials, and textures.”

Krafton Inc. had filed this complaint at the US District Court in California. The implications of this lawsuit were not apparent until now.

The removal of Free Fire from App Store could simply be a glitch but as the time passes, some users have stated that they are having problems while accessing the game.

This could be a coincidence or the game might be on its way to face a shutdown on iOS devices.

It is still too soon to imply any conclusions and hence, updates from the relevant parties could shed a light on this situation.

Pokimane flees from two men after being harassed in public

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Pokimane flees from two men after being harassed in public

Popular Twitch streamer Pokimane has revealed that she was harassed by two males when she was in a parking lot alone ahead of Valentine’s day.

Pokimane is a household name at this point. The streamer has established herself as one of the most influential gamers around the globe and people randomly recognizing her on the street is something that should not come as a surprise.

In her latest Instagram story, she revealed that while walking alone in a parking lot, she was harassed by two strangers who harassed her by their actions which prompted her to flee the scene as soon as she could.

Pokimane instagram story
Via Pokimane Instagram

“I was walking back to my friends (but was alone) in a parking lot when two guys started hollering at me,” Pokimane explained on her IG. “At first one of them sang ‘happy Valentine’s Day to you,’ I was like ‘uhh you too’.”

Things were normal to this point until one of them said “you could be the milk to my cereal with that skirt.” “I wanna see what’s under that skirt… show me what’s under that skirt…”,

This is where her flight reflex kicked in and she ran away from them as fast as she could.

Pokimane has warned her stans to avoid such behavior if they happen to meet her. With a rough start to 2022, Pokimane has been involved in quite a few controversies. She concluded her message by thanking her loyal fans “spread some awareness that this happens a lot, please be kind and stay safe and look out for your friends.”.

Valorant: Team Envy rebrands to OpTic Gaming

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant: Team Envy rebrands to OpTic Gaming

Moving forward, Team Envy Valorant will play under the banner of OpTic Gaming as they have successfully rebranded with the Texas-Frisco based organization followed by an announcement on their twitter handle.

Envy Valorant who made it to the Valorant Champions 2021 will kick off their Valorant Envy Valorant who made it to the Valorant Champions 2021 will kick off their Valorant Champions Tour 2022 campaign under OpTic Gaming as Pujan “FNS” Mehta and co have been  acquired by OpTic Gaming who decided to venture into Valorant. Additionally, this acquisition is a part of the Envy-OpTic merger which took place back in November 2021 as OpTic have now expanded to take over Envy’s Valorant and  Overwatch League’s Dallas Fuel.

OpTic Valorant will debut at the soon to start VCT Stage 1 Challengers in North America where they will go against Rise in their Group B opener. The Stage 1 Challengers will feature a round robin group stage followed by a double elimination playoffs bracket which would determine two best teams from the clusters towards the two spots at the Stage 1 Masters event. The Challenges will start with Cloud9 taking over 100 Thieves.

The merger between OpTic and Envy saw both the sides invest in the Call of Duty League as OpTic Texas which saw the Hector “HECZ” Rodriguez owned organization drop the OpTic Chicago spot in affiliation with NRG Esports. With that being said, OpTic soon decided to take over the Overwatch Dallas Fuel and Valorant divisions of Envy.

The Envy-OpTic rebranding was initially teased by the OpTic Merchandise store, which had FNThe Envy-OpTic rebranding was initially teased by the OpTic Merchandise store, which had FNS in the OpTic jersey on their page. The takeover was also leaked by VCT itself when they accidentally revealed the schedule for the Stage 1 Challengers which had OpTic’s logo in place of Envy’s.

OpTic Valorant now have :

Pujan “FNS” Mehta (IGL)
Victor “Victor” Wong
Austin “crashies” Roberts
Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker
Jimmy “Marved” Nguyen (Loan)

Chet “Chet” Singh (Head Coach)

CSGO: jks to replace ropz on FaZe

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CSGO: jks to replace ropz on FaZe

The 26 year-old Aussie will step in for Robin “ropz” Kool on FaZe Clan’s active CS:GO roster ahead of the latter testing positive for COVID-19.

Ex-Complexity rifler Justin “jks” Savage will round out FaZe’s roster for the upcoming IEM Katowice 2022, the European mixture announced today on their Twitter handle. The news comes after ropz tweeted about his condition which indeed ruled out the Estonian from the Day 1 fixtures and has currently been quarantined while the rest team prepares for their bootcamp for the play-in event.

This entire fiasco will see jks back in action once again after spending over 3 months on the bench of Complexity who recently signed the Extra Salt trio alongside Michael “Grim” Wince and Paytyn “Junior” Johnson. The dallas based organization had most recently overhauled their lineup, parting ways with Benjamin “⁠blameF⁠” Bremer and co who were a part of the 2019-21 roster, dubbed under the project “Juggernaut”.

The soon to commence IEM Katowice 2022 play-in was to be ropz’s second outing with his new team after being signed from Mousesports at the start of this year. Under ropz, FaZe Clan were able to qualify for the BLAST Premier Spring event where they won against Team Liquid, Vitality and BIG.

FaZe Clan will start with jks against Sprout in theirBest of 1 opener as the play-in format will feature a double elimination bracket towards the main event.

Should ropz recover on time and complete his quarantine, he may resume the rifler duties back on FaZe from Feb 19 onwards only if his team survives their bracket.

With jks to stand-in for ropz, FaZe Clan are now :

  • Finn “⁠karrigan⁠” Andersen
  • Håvard “⁠rain⁠” Nygaard
  • Helvijs “⁠broky⁠” Saukants
  • Russel “⁠Twistzz⁠” Van Dulken
  • Justin “⁠jks⁠” Savage (stand-in)

Robert “⁠RobbaN⁠” Dahlström (Head coach)

Robin “⁠ropz⁠” Kool (tested positive for COVID-19 and quarantined)

Need CS:GO Inventory Upgrade? Meet Farmskins For Best Deals in 2022

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Need CS:GO Inventory Upgrade? Meet Farmskins For Best Deals in 2022

This Farmskins Review 2022 will help you navigate the site’s offerings, case opening, skins, and giveaways. Check whether Farmskins might help you to boost your inventory appearance.

Farmskins Review – Top CS:GO Case Opening Site

If you are looking for a legitimate CS:GO case opening site, where you may spend a set amount of money to open a case in order to obtain great skins from it, you came to the right place. Read more about Farmskins below.

What Should You Know About Farmskins?

First off, Farmskins is a legitimate case opening site that supports such game offers as:

● Case Opening

● Case Battles

● Upgrade

All registered users can get deposit bonuses and free daily rewards, as well as a free sign-up bonus. Visa, Master, e-wallet Skrill, WeChat Pay, Maestro, and cryptocurrency are among the most popular options for depositing funds into your account.

Farmskins now boast around 91 million cases opened with them and 889K knives cases. The numbers are only getting bigger and bigger regardless of the occasional bad feedback.

The following are just a few of the many sorts of great cases you may find and launch on the website:

● Cases for certain weapons, including M4A1-S, AK-47, M4A4, AWP, and Pistols

● Stattrak Case with AWP, M4A4, and M4A1, among others

● Quality Cases (Restricted, Covert, Mil-Spec, and Classified)

● Cases for Knives

To unbox a case, you select one from the Farmskins variety based on its worthiness. There are cases ranging in price from several cents to hundreds or even thousands of dollars. A case can be opened only if the total amount of your account coins equals or exceeds the case’s worth. Note that the worth of the products you receive does not necessarily correspond to the value of the case.

Such skins will be great for passing your missions. 

Main Features

Farmskins, considered by users to be one of the major CS:GO case opening platforms, has an array of offerings, rather than just a standard case opening. You may easily join to Case Battle.

● Case Battle

To take part in a case fight, you must first enter the battle, then choose the preferred cases to wager on, the number of participants, and the manner of victory. Eventually, the champion is the person who gets to receive the most valuable item, while the loser is the person with the most minor item received. In a case battle, users can create or join a battle. When creating, you enter how many cases you want to participate in (maximum of 30) and how many participants can join (up to 4). The champion is whoever makes the most profit out of all cases when opened and gets all the skins.

Note that when creating the case battle, if you gain the lead, you will gain things from all of the users in that battle. If you wish to cancel the combat, simply go to the web page, locate the “QUIT BATTLE” button, and click on it. They will then credit your account with the value of your cases.

● Upgrade

You have the option of upgrading from low-value skins to high-value skins. If you gain the lead, you get to choose which one you wish to acquire. The greater the price gap between the two skins, the greater the risks and, of course, competition. You may also contribute an amount from your account to increase your possibilities of receiving the skin and lower your particular risk factor.

● Gaben’s Store

Bullets are the currency of the Gaben shop. When you open any case, including fight cases, you will be rewarded with bullets. Bullets have a 30% possibility of being dropped. More bullets are contained in more costly casings. 

At Gaben’s Store, you may also overlook the unique giveaways where skins are sold at ridiculously low prices.

They also organize tournaments. The previous ones were Farmskins Championship #1, and Farmskins WCA 2017 Europe Qualifier.

Incentives, Levels, and Free Case Battles

As the name implies, many of these are giveaways where you can get a free item for the game through this site. Giveaways and other deals are given on a regular basis, and the freebies here stand out as being superior to those found on other websites.

You will discover a free case on the Daily Bonus page that you may open once every 24 hours, you may get them all for free.

The free level case can only be opened for the first seven days. If you deposit $4.00 on the site, you will earn one level for the next 30 days, allowing you to open a superior case the next month. The more you deposit on the site, the nicer the daily crates you will be able to access.

On Farmskins, the levels are as follows:

● Deposit $4.00 – Level 1

● Deposit $9.00 – Level 2

● Deposit $30.00 – Level 3

● Deposit of $70.00 – Level 4

● Deposit of $150.00 – Level 5

● Deposit of $300.00 – Level 6

Withdrawals

The site provides a variety of payment alternatives, such as G2A, major credit cards including Visa, Maestro, and Master, e-wallets like Skrill and PayPal, Alipay, Union Pay, Webmoney, cryptocurrency, Qiwi, and WeChatPay, so everyone can find a payment method that works for them.

The procedure for obtaining skins is simple. Find the “accept” button located near the skin you are willing to send to your account with Farmskins. When you click it, your stuff will be delivered to you via a URL, with a trade offer that you can find within the account on Steam. You just need to accept the site’s bot’s trade request.

Farmskins or Not?

You should definitely consider Farmskins if you crave exclusive skins and user-friendly cases. There are many bonuses, giveaways, and upgrades that can help you transform your gaming experience to a new level. Finally, it is fully legitimate, regardless of the myths surrounding it.

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