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BMPS Season 1: Orange Rock Tops the table in League Stage

Divyesh Moghe
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BMPS Season 1: Orange Rock Tops the table in League Stage

Orange Rock has emerged out to be victorious after a three week long League Stage and 72 matches in BMPS S1 League Stage. Their consistent performance helped them to stay on the top with almost fifty points lead over Team Soul. Here are the top sixteen teams that qualified to the BMPS S1 Grand Finals.

Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series Season One is the biggest mobile esports tournament in India so far with a prize pool of ₹2 Crore. The ultimate showdown will begin next week as teams will fight in the grand finale to win the trophy and ₹75,00,000 at the coveted first spot.

BMPS S1 League Stage Final Standings

A total of 24 teams were qualified to the League stage of BMPS S1. Amongst them, only top 16 made their way into the grand finale. Team Orange Rock snatched the lead from Team Soul and claimed the top spot with 43 point lead. Team Soul and Team XO were the runner ups at this stage.

Orange Rock and Team Soul were the only two teams who stacked more than 500 points in this League stage. They look strong contenders moving into the finale week that is set to start on 9th June 2022.

BMPS S1 League Stage Awards

Soul Goblin from Team Soul was the most influential player in BMPS S1 League Stage as he became the first player to collect 100 finishes in this tournament. He was mentioned by the officials on their social media handles. This was an impressive feat achieved by Goblin and Team Soul.

The tournament is headed in a very exciting direction as there are many contenders to the trophy. The standings will reset for the finals and we will witness the action once again, starting from 9th June 2022.

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Cloud9 defeat ENCE to win IEM Dallas 2022

Bharat Kotwani
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Cloud9 defeat ENCE to win IEM Dallas 2022

North American Organization Cloud9 have lifted the IEM Dallas Silverware over ENCE in a 3 map succession and bagged their first championship in the span of four years since they last lifted the ELEAGUE Major trophy in Boston. 

Backed by their North American fans at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, it was the first time for Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov and company who played in front of a crowd, whom they called their “home crowd” after having recently been acquired by Cloud9 from Gambit Esports. 

Their playoff run started surprisingly well after they sent FaZe Clan and BIG packing in the Quarter and Semifinals respectively with a roaring support from the crowd in Dallas. In attendance was Mr Jack Etienne, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloud9 who lifted the trophy alongside his new-look CS:GO roster and with a stint of mixed feelings, the moment everyone had been waiting for after a series of unsuccessful rosters and tryouts who were unable to culminate their chances into success ever since Tarik “tarik” Celik and his men won the first ever major for North America in 2018. 

Today in Dallas, history has once again been written but by a majority-CIS side in the Cloud9 colors who battled out through their Lower Bracket run, surpassing the Ninjas and Pyjamas and toppling Team Liquid twice in the tournament only to win against the current major title holders FaZe Clan and BIG on the main stage to set up their Grand Finals clash with ENCE. 

Before we speak about the Grand Finals, ENCE had been phenomenal with Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski who filled in for Lotan “Spinx” Giladi and despite of the said roster change, they made it this far in the event with a series of sensational wins over G2 Esports, FaZe Clan and FURIA.

The IEM Dallas 2022 Grand Final clash between Cloud9 and ENCE was more of a one-sided affair with the home team wreaking havoc on Overpass and Ancient thanks to Dmitriy “sh1ro” Sokolov and Timofey “interz” Yakushin who put up a valiant effort to thwart every plan been brewed under the ENCE camp. A plethora of offensive but staggering plays from Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov on Ancient had forced ENCE to play in a haphazard manner which never let them go past 3 rounds on the board, giving Cloud9 their first championship of 2022 and after a long-awaited period which the Organization and its fans had been rooting for. 

Honestly, I probably don’t understand it yet. I have a lot of different emotions and we just really needed this win and I am happy that we did it. I mean, I am really at home and a lot of people did support us and it does mean a lot to us.

Nafany

Match details

  • IEM Dallas 2022 Grand Finals: Cloud9 Vs ENCE
  • Best of 5 LAN Event
  • Location: Dallas, Texas, United States Of America
  • Prize Pool: Winning team takes away a share of $100,000 from $250,000

Map Veto

  • ENCE removed Inferno
  • Cloud9 removed Nuke
  • ENCE picked Mirage
  • Cloud9 picked Overpass
  • ENCE picked Ancient
  • Cloud9 picked Vertigo
  • Dust2 was left over

Result

  • Map 1: Mirage (Winners: Cloud9, Final Score: 16 – 12)
  • Map 2: Overpass (Winners: Cloud9, Final Score: 16 – 11)
  • Map 3: Ancient (Winners: Cloud9, Final Score: 16 – 3)

WinZO takes MPL to court following copyright infringement allegations

Arpita Tewari
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WinZO takes MPL to court following copyright infringement allegations

WinZo, a competitive gaming platform has taken its industry colleague MPL to the courtroom. The allegation of WinZO is the copyright infringement by MPL on one of their titles ‘World War.’ Over the last 5 years, WinZo has innovated formats for social multiple experiences. One such team format proprietary to WinZo was named “World War”.

Commencing in April 2020, the game currently has close to 80 million registered users. The company has applied for a patent for the invention, copyright registration in relation to the expression of the Format, and trademark for ‘World War’.

Around the last week of March 2022, WinZo discovered that MPL has copied the identical format with the identical name, World War.

When this was brought to their notice, MPL, on 28th March, took down the Format completely from their platform. However, in a complete volte-face, MPL re-commenced using the entire identical format with each of the distinctive features in use by WinZo, by 2nd April. This time, while they renamed their tournament as ‘Team Clash’, but the notifications/pop-ups sent to users still used ‘World War’.

WinZo sent a legal notice to MPL and when MPL refused to cease and desist from taking down the Format, WinZo was forced to file a suit seeking injunction to restrain MPL from continuing to use the Format on account of copyright infringement, passing off and unfair competition.

The matter was listed on 3.6.2022, before the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Naveen Chawla of the Delhi High Court.

After the matter was heard at some length, MPL’s counsel stated that the MPL has stopped using the mark “World War” and was willing to give an undertaking that the mark “World War” shall not be used with the Defendant’s game/ offering. Concerning the other allegations made by WinZo, MPL’s Counsel made a statement that MPL shall attempt to resolve the matter through negotiations with WinZo.

The matter is now listed for further proceedings on the 4th of July 2022.

WinZo was represented by Mr. Amit Sibal, Senior Advocate who was briefed by TMT Law Practice team comprising Abhishek Malhotra, Managing Partner and Atmaja Tripathy, Senior Associate.

MPL was represented by Rajshekhar Rao, Sr. Advocate instructed by Mansi Sood.

Global Esports Wins Skyesports Champions Series Valorant (SCS) Chennai Lan

Parth Gada
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Global Esports Wins Skyesports Champions Series Valorant (SCS) Chennai Lan

Global Esports defeated Enigma Gaming 3-2 to become the winners of Skyesports Champions Series and would represent South Asia as the top seed of South Asia. Enigma Gaming has to pave their way through play-ins, while Global Esports, as the top seed, would skip the first stage.

The match went as follows: 

  • Enigma Gaming 14-12 Global Esports (Ascent)
  • Enigma Gaming 6-13 Global Esports (Split)
  • Enigma Gaming 13-11 Global Esports (Haven)
  • Enigma Gaming 8-13 Global Esports (Fracture)
  • Enigma Gaming 9-13 Global Esports(Bind)

Enigma had the most amazing run in the tournament, and qualified the playoffs as the top seed from Group A. In the playoffs they defeated Velocity gaming in the first round and defeated Orangutan to qualify for the Stage 2 VCT APAC challengers and reach the finals of Skyesports Champions Series. 

Global esports on the other hand had a shaky run, with Losing to Revenant and Enigma Gaming in the group stage, they qualified for the playoffs as the second seed from Group A. Global eSports then defeated full power gaming but lost to Orangutan to reach the lower bracket. 

In the lower bracket they had to beat their eternal rivals in velocity gaming to reach Lower bracket finals, where they took revenge from Orangutan to qualify for stage 2 VCT APAC challengers and the finals of Skyesports Champions Series.

Match summary:

The map veto for the finals went as follows. 

  • Enigma Gaming Ban Breeze, their weakest map
  • Global Esports Ban Icebox, Enigma’s strong map
  • Enigma Gaming picks Ascent with Global Esports on defense. 
  • Global eSports picks Split with Enigma Gaming on defense.
  • Enigma Gaming picks Haven, with Global eSports on 
  • Global eSports picks Fracture, with Enigma Gaming on 
  • Bind would be the decider.

Map 1 Ascent, Enigma’s pick:
Enigma Gaming chose to play Chamber, Omen, Raze, Sage, and Sova, while Global Esports chose to play Astra, Breach, Chamber, Kay/O, and Sova. The map started with Global Esports on defence, created a stronghold, And Enigma had difficulty getting on sites and only won four rounds.
On Global Esports attack, they managed to win four out of five rounds, putting them on the match point. But Enigma Gaming was resilient and came back to win nine rounds in a row to win the game 14-12.

Map 2 Split, Global Esports’ pick:
Enigma played a double duelist setup, something unheard of in recent days, playing Jett and Raze with Cypher, Omen and Sage. Global esports stuck with their default Breach, Chamber, and Fade. It turned out to be one-sided, with Global Esports crushing Enigma’s defence to win the half 9-3.
Keeping the momentum, Global Esports, and despite losing the starting two rounds, managed to stop the bleeding and won the map 13-6
Global Esports
Map 3 Haven Enigma’s pick:
Enigma Gaming picked Fade, Jett, Killjoy, Omen and Skye and opted not to play Chamber, while Global Esports decided to play Breach, Chamber, Omen, Raze and Sova. Starting well for both teams, Haven was a competitive map, to say the least, with rounds going back and forth and both teams winning strings of rounds before closing the half 6-6.
In the second half, after being 6-9 down, Enigma consistently held on to the sites to win six rounds in a row to make the scoreline 12-9 in their favour. Despite Global’s attempts at coming back, Enigma Gaming managed to close the game 13-11

Map 4 Fracture Global Esports’ pick:
Both played Chamber, Brimstone, and Breach, but Global Esports played Sage and Raze, and Enigma Gaming chose Kay/O and Neon. Being Global’s map pick, Fracture tilted toward Global Esports’ side, with them winning eight rounds on the attack, winning the half 8-4.

They held off Enigma for the first two rounds in their defence but lost the next four to facilitate a comeback. Thanks to a thrifty clutch for SkRossi, the momentum shifted, and Global Esports managed to push the game to the last map.

Map 5 Bind, The decider:
The only similarity between both compositions was Breach and Brimstone. Enigma Gaming chose Cypher as the sentinel, while GES decided on Chamber. Enigma played with Fade while GES played Sova as duelist GES played Raze while Enigma Gaming played Jett. With this being decider and picked by both the teams, The started teams exchanged rounds after rounds.

The first half concluded with GES winning one round over Enigma, closing the half 7-5.
Enigma lost the first two rounds, equalising the scoreboard at 7-7. Global esports then managed to hold off Enigma’s attack, only letting two more rounds slip off to win the game, 13-9, winning the game and the Skyesports Champions Series Chennai LAN 3-2.

Global esports is now a three-time representative of South Asia/India Valorant in APAC, a feat not achieved by any other team in the region. Enigma Gaming also qualifies for the Stage 2 VCT APAC challengers as the second seed from India and would play the play-in stage starting from June 9.

Fortnite releases Chapter 3 Season 3 cinematic trailer

Aritra Patra
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Fortnite releases Chapter 3 Season 3 cinematic trailer

Epic Games has officially introduced the Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3: Vibin’. The new season seems quite fascinating as the new battle pass features Darth Vader and Indiana Jones. Apart from that, there are boars and wolves that you can ride, and a lot of other new in-game stuff.

After the Season 2 Collision event, Vibin’ introduced One Giant Party, an island with a new map. Let’s take a look at the Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3 cinematic trailer:

Reality Falls, a new area, is a gorgeous forest of mushrooms, bouncing mushrooms, and purple trees. The Reality Tree has bloomed on the Island, resulting in the formation of a new biome! You can swim beneath its cascades, hunt loot in its caves, and spring from its plumes while not exploring its flora. You will also be able to observe the effects of the Reality Tree on various sections of the Island throughout the Season.

The new Reality Tree is releasing Reality Seed Pods. Plant a Reality Seed to develop a Reality Sapling that blooms in the same spot every time! Saplings gain better treasure with each weeding, so keep weeding a sapling until it drops Mythic loot. If you pick up a Reality Seed while already planting a sapling, throw it to teleport the seedling to where it lands. Plant the seed that your sapling leaves behind when it wilts.

A new age for the Island heralds the arrival of a new sort of weapon. The new scoped rifle’s range is between that of an Assault Rifle and that of a Sniper Rifle. You should master the DMR to reap significant rewards in battle.

Furthermore, if you stay in the Storm for an extended period of time in a match, you will suffer Storm Sickness, an ailment that increases the Storm’s depletion of your Health. Storm Sickness never comes as a surprise, and you’ll be warned if you’re on the verge of getting it. Fortunately, the only remedy for Storm Sickness is to leave the Storm. However, if you re-enter it, it will immediately affect you again.

The new Snap outfit can be found on the first page of the Battle Pass, and once unlocked, it unlocks Snap Quests as well. Throughout the Season, these Quests become available. When you finish one, you’ll get a new Snap component.

Valorant: Team Liquid bench L1NK, sign Dreamas

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant: Team Liquid bench L1NK, sign Dreamas

Team Liquid have announced the benching of Travis ‘L1NK’ Mendoza from their active Valorant division and have further decided to replace the 23-year-old Brit with Aurimas “Dreamas” Zablockis. The announcement comes halfway through the VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers where Liquid currently sit on the second position of the table with 3 wins and a loss after their debut win with Dreamas over Natus Vincere.

No concrete reasoning have been released by either of the sides behind this change but Team Liquid have lately been looking for some fresh air as it was just a month ago when they had parted ways with their head coach Connor “Sliggy” Blomfield followed by the removal of L1NK from their roster.

L1NK was one among the original heads on Team Liquid’s Valorant roster along with Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom and Dom “soulcas” Sulcas and were later acquired from fish123 in August 2020. Under L1NK, Liquid managed to qualify for the VCT 2021: Stage 2 Masters – Reykjavík where they finished in the 4th place followed by a championship over Acend at the Red Bull Home Ground #2. The team overall had a fair showing with L1NK on the board but their thirst for a daunting turnaround indeed sparked this move which saw Dreamas formerly of LDN UTD sign up for Liquid and their journey towards the VCT 2022: Stage 2 Masters. 

Team Liquid have successfully booked their ticket to the Playoffs of the VCT 2022 : Stage 2 Challengers under Dreamas and will play their final match of Group B against M3C on June 10.

Team Liquid are now:

  • Dom “soulcas” Sulcas
  • Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom
  • Elias “Jamppi” Olkkonen
  • Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom
  • Aurimas “Dreamas” Zablockis

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Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3: When is it going to kick-off?

Aritra Patra
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Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3: When is it going to kick-off?

Epic is going to launch Fortnite‘s new Chapter 3 Season 3 just after a few hours as Season 2 has come to an end. The new Fortnite season is going to bring in a lot of new features to the game. Some of them are new maps, new storylines, and new loot. Apart from that, there will be new battle pass rewards that you will be earning during the whole season.

Are you ready for the new Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3? Without wasting time, let’s check out the new Chapter 3 Season 3 start timing.

Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3 start timing

Even though the developers haven’t announced anything yet, however, the Season 2 Collision event will begin on 4th June at 4 PM ET. Therefore, the new Season 3 is going to kick off on 5th June.

Keep following TalkEsport for all the updates regarding Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3.

Global Esports Qualifies For Valorant APAC Challengers, Beats Orangutan 2-0

Parth Gada
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Global Esports Qualifies For Valorant APAC Challengers, Beats Orangutan 2-0

The second last day of the Skyesports Champions Series had Upper Finals scheduled between Global Esports and Orangutan. The match-up is a revenge match, as Global Esports had lost to Orangutan earlier in the tournament and were forced to survive the Lower Bracket. At the same time, Orangutan had lost to Engima Gaming yesterday. 

The winner of today’s match would be the second and final representative for South Asia in Stage 2 VCT APAC Challengers and Enigma gaming, Also would be in the grand finals with a chance to win the whole event.  

The map veto for the clash was as follows.

  • Orangutan Ban Split, thier perma ban.
  • Global eSports Ban Icebox, Orangutan’s strongest map
  • Orangutan chose Ascent, With Global Esports on Defense.
  • Global eSports chose Fracture, With Orangutan on Defense.
  • Orangutan Ban Haven, Global Esports strong map.
  • Global Esports Ban Breeze, Orangutans’ stronghold.
  • Bind remains as the decider.

On Ascent, Global Esports decided to go with a no duelist setup playing with Chamber, Kay/O, Breach, Sova and Astra. Orangutan decided to go with the normal setup, including Jett, Sova, Omen, Killjoy and Breach.

Despite the strong start from Orangutan and on a 0-3 deficit, Global Esports pulled a thrifty and went on to win the half 4-8 on defence. On attack, Global Esports managed to carry the momentum to the next half and won the pistol and the follow-up. Orangutan did try defending. Still, with Global Esports already on ten rounds, Orangutan fell and lost the game 8-13.

Losing their map pick, Orangutan was disadvantaged, and they had to play the opponent’s map pick. Both teams had mirror lineups with Sage, Raze, Chamber, Breach and Brimstone on fracture.

In the first half, though, it seemed that Orangutan had lost all the momentum, and they went on to lose six straight rounds before winning two more. But this didn’t stop Global Esports’ attack, and they attacked stronger to win the half 10-2.

The second half started with Orangutan winning the pistol and the follow-up, but they had difficulty converting this into something big and didn’t come back. And they lost to Global Esports 5-13, losing the series 0-2.

Orangutan might have lost but had an impressive run in the tournament for it being a new lineup.
Global Esports has now been a representative for South Asia for all three times the region had a chance. Global Esports will play Enigma Gaming tomorrow for the Skyesports Champions Series Trophy and an advantage stage in Stage 2 VCT APAC Challengers.

Global Esports faces Orangutan, Defeats Velocity gaming to reach lower-bracket final

Parth Gada
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Global Esports faces Orangutan, Defeats Velocity gaming to reach lower-bracket final

On day 4 of Skyesports Champions Series Chennai Playoffs, Global Esports faced Velocity Gaming for tournament contention, with the losing team facing elimination. Both the teams always supported each other and wished to meet in the finals instead. 

Valclassico started on Bind, Global Esports map pick. The first half concluded with Global Esports leading with 9-3. Velocity Gaming did manage to come back but failed to consummate it, losing the map 11-13

On Velocity Gaming’s Breeze, Global was surprised with a Reyna pick for SKRossi. Everyone expected a close map, but Global Esports dominated their rivals, losing four rounds, three in the first half and one in the second. Winning the series 2-0 against their eternal rivals, Velocity Gaming.

Global Esports started the playoff stage with a win against Full Power Gaming, where they won the game 2-0, sending Full Power to the lower bracket. Global Esports lost to Orangutan in the upper semifinals and were sent to Lower-bracket themselves. 

Global won two games back to back against Revenant and yesterday against Velocity Gaming to face Orangutan in the Lower Bracket Finals. 

Orangutan had a relatively has played fewer matches, with them being the first seed of the tournament. They won their debut LAN match against Global Esports but lost 1-2 to Enigma Gaming, a very close game. 

Today both teams face each for the second time, with Orangutan wanting to repeat the results of last time and Global Esports would want to take revenge on their counterparts. The Game winner gets a ticket for the Stage 2 VCT APAC Challengers and the finals of Skyesports Champions Series 2022 against the undefeated Enigma Gaming.

The match today would be a BO3 and go the distance, with both teams trying to get the best of other and qualify for APAC Challengers. Good luck to both the teams, and may the best team win.

Fnatic add nicoodoz and roej

Bharat Kotwani
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Fnatic add nicoodoz and roej

fnatic have announced the addition of Nico “⁠nicoodoz⁠” Tamjidi and Fredrik “⁠roeJ⁠” Jørgensen from Copenhagen Flames to their active CS:GO division and will replace Alex “⁠ALEX⁠” McMeekin & Valentin “⁠poizon⁠” Vasilev who were moved to the inactive roster ahead of 2022’s second half.

After falling out in the 12th-14th place at the PGL Antwerp’s European Regional Major Ranking tournament, fnatic were forced back to the drawing board as the Swedish side decided to re-shuffle their roster in a bid to crawl back on to the top. This indeed led to the removal of ALEX and poizon from the active roster while their stand-in Peppe ‘Peppzor’ Borak joined back Fnatic Rising.

Previously in the awe of the PGL Major Antwerp Qualifiers, Fnatic decided to bench smooya and bring in poizon and Peppzor for replacements before they bid farewell to Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin who now features in Ninjas in Pyjamas’ active lineup. In addition to getting knocked off PGL Antwerp’s RMR A event, Fnatic were unable to qualify for the ongoing IEM Dallas through its closed qualifier, adding up to the woes of the team.

Previously in the awe of the PGL Major Antwerp Qualifiers, Fnatic decided to bench smooya and bring in poizon and Peppzor for replacements before they bid farewell to Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin who now features in Ninjas in Pyjamas’ active lineup. In addition to getting knocked off PGL Antwerp’s RMR A event, Fnatic were unable to qualify for the ongoing IEM Dallas through its closed qualifier, adding up to the woes of the team.

Before hopping on fnatic, nicoodoz and roeJ had steered Copenhagen Flames to their first-ever consecutive majors both organized by PGL, Stockholm in 2021 followed by the recently concluded Antwerp iteration. Despite the team failing to make it to the playoffs at the either, CPH Flames seemed promising, almost closing out games against top tier teams including triumphs over ENCE and Evil Geniuses. Left alone the Majors, the duo have been phenomenal among the teams who competed across the other A to B tier tournaments throughout the year.

Moving forward, I’m excited to announce that I have joined such a legendary organization as Fnatic and I’m eager to get started with my new teammates, and the people behind them! I’m confident this is the perfect place for me as a player to continue developing and achieving my new goals together with Fnatic. I want to be the best and so does Fnatic. I have been given a huge opportunity and I will make sure to work extremely hard to show my gratitude!

Nico ‘nicoodoz’ Tamjid

With these two new signings, fnatic have to now reveal their fifth and final piece to their puzzle. The team will debut with its new players at the Pinnacle Cup Championship 2022 which starts on June 8. With the signings of nicoodoz and roeJ, fnatic are now:

  • Freddy “⁠KRIMZ⁠” Johansson
  • William “⁠mezii⁠” Merriman
  • Nico “⁠nicoodoz⁠” Tamjidi
  • Fredrik “⁠roeJ⁠” Jørgensen
  • Jamie “⁠keita⁠” Hall (Head Coach)
  • Alex “⁠ALEX⁠” McMeekin (benched)
  • Valentin “⁠poizon⁠” Vasilev (benched)

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