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Valorant April Fools: Widejoy Mode announced

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Valorant April Fools: Widejoy Mode announced

In an announcement that caught the entire Valorant fan base by surprise, Riot Games just announced a ‘Widejoy Mode’ coming to the tactical shooter.

The small 57-second trailer by the Valorant YouTube showcases the ‘Widejoy’ meme and confirms it as an official game mode set to arrive in the title.

For the unaware, the ‘widejoy’ meme is an old Valorant meme that first originated in Episode 4 due to a bug that rendered the in-game Killjoy player card much wider than intended. Riot was swift to reverse the bug, but the community raised repeated demands to the company in attempts of bringing ‘Widejoy’ back to Valorant.

So does the newly released trailer mean that Riot is bringing the ‘Widejoy’ meme back?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that way since the trailer is likely to be an April Fools’ joke by Riot Games.

It isn’t the first time Riot Games is pranking Valorant fans on April Fools, though. If you’ve been following Valorant for a while, you’d probably remember the April Fools patch notes that changed Brimstone smokes to 100 seconds. Obviously, that patch was never implemented, and the chances of the ‘Widejoy’ mode being added to the game are also pretty slim.

How to Purchase Valorant Gift Cards in India and other Countries?

Pranav Nalawade
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How to Purchase Valorant Gift Cards in India and other Countries?

Valorant is currently one of the most popular first-person shooters out there that continues to grow in player count over the years due to its unique game mechanics and constant updates shipped by the developers behind the title.

Due to the rising popularity of Valorant, many players wish to purchase gift cards for their friends or themselves which can be exchanged for Valorant Points, which is the in-game currency of Valorant. If you’re confused about how to purchase yourself a Valorant gift card, we have you covered.

Currently, players can only buy official Valorant gift cards through Amazon.com. Furthermore, these gift cards can only be purchased in the United States and can be redeemed in the United States and Canada. Remember that you won’t be able to redeem these gift cards from any other region.

Valorant Gift Cards Price:

Players can purchase Valorant gift cards in denominations of $10, $25, $50, and $100 from Amazon.

While some other websites are also seen selling gift cards for Valorant, Riot Games has confirmed that they won’t be able to help a user purchasing gift cards from unauthorized sellers.

How to redeem Valorant Gift Cards:

Once you have your Valorant gift card, simply follow these steps to redeem it:

  • Launch Valorant.
  • From the main menu, click on your Valorant Points on the top right.
  • This will bring up a top-up window.
  • Select the Prepaid Cards payment method.
  • Enter the corresponding pin code from the back of your card.
  • Click submit to finish the transaction.

That’s it! Now you should have your Valorant points ready in your account within the next few minutes.

Valorant Ranking System Explained: What You Need to Know

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant Ranking System Explained: What You Need to Know

With the constantly growing popularity of Valorant, more and more players are looking to venture into the game competitively and climb the ranking spectrum in the shooter.

However, the ranking system of Valorant can be a lot more complex than most people think, and a better understanding of it can help you climb through the ranks a lot faster.

Let’s take a look at how the ranking system works in Valorant, and how you can efficiently climb the competitive ladder of the title.

Valorant Ranking System

Currently the ranking system in Valorant is divided into the following ranks:

  • Iron
  • Bronze
  • Silver
  • Gold
  • Platinum
  • Diamond
  • Immortal
  • Radiant

Each of these ranks, with the exception of Radiant, are further subdivided into three groups.

After finishing five placement games in the competitive mode, players are assigned to one of these ranks depending on their skill level. From there, players have to grind Matchmaking Rating (MMR) by playing competitive gains to ascend to a higher skill group.

Each competitive win grants you Rank Rating (RR) points, and once you have 100 RR points, you rank up. For instance, if you’re currently Gold 2, and gain 100 RR points, you will become Gold 3.

On rare occasions, you’ll find yourself skipping a rank. This occurs when you trigger the ‘double rank up’, which happens when the algorithm determines that you possess higher skill than your current rank and can be obtained by consistent performances in competitive games and constantly gaining Match MVPs in matches.

What Impacts Your Rank Rating?

The primary factors that impact your RR points include:

  • Match results (Whether you win or lose the match)
  • Round differential (By how many rounds you win/lose the match)
  • Your in-game performance (Determined by your combat score)

So, if you’re planning to climb the ranking ladder in Valorant, you should focus on putting up consistent individual performances and securing as many rounds as you can for your team.

Another key takeaway is to never give up – that surrender button might be tempting when you’re losing a game 10-0, but even winning a single round or two is better than losing 13-0 as a result of surrendering.

PUBG MOBILE reveals details for PMCO Spring 2022

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PUBG MOBILE reveals details for PMCO Spring 2022

PUBG Mobile has announced the commencement of its amateur and semi-pro tournament across the globe, the PUBG MOBILE Club Open (PMCO) will feature a total prize pool of $600,000 (~£457,400) for its Spring split. The registrations for the spring split of the PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) 2022 will start from March 31st to April 13th.

PUBG Mobile Club Open 2022 will feature the best PUBG MOBILE Players and Squads among the 6 regions across the world. The event will act as a qualifying tournament to join the world’s largest mobile esports event, the PUBG MOBILE GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP. The complete event will be played in 3 maps and TPP mode.

PMCO 2022 Schedule

  • Registration: March 31st to April 13th
  • Qualification: April – May
  • Regional Group Stage: TBC
  • Regional Finals: TBC

As stated earlier, PMCO 2022 will feature 6 regions which will include 170 countries. Here is the list of regions and sub-regions that will compete in PMCO 2022.

  • PMCO North America
  • PMCO South America
    • PMCO Brazil
    • PMCO Latin America
  • PMCO Africa
  • PMCO Middle East
  • PMCO Asia
    • PMCO South Asia
    • PMCO Asia Wildcard
  • PMCO Europe
    • PMCO Western Europe
    • PMCO Turkey

Riot Announces Widejoy Mode in Valorant

Sonu Banerjee
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Riot Announces Widejoy Mode in Valorant

In an announcement that caught the entire Valorant fan base by surprise, Riot Games just announced a ‘Widejoy Mode’ coming to the tactical shooter.

The small 57-second trailer by the Valorant YouTube showcases the ‘Widejoy’ meme and confirms it as an official game mode set to arrive in the title.

For the unaware, the ‘widejoy’ meme is an old Valorant meme that first originated in Episode 4 due to a bug that rendered the in-game Killjoy player card much wider than intended. Riot was swift to reverse the bug, but the community raised repeated demands to the company in attempts of bringing ‘Widejoy’ back to Valorant.

So does the newly released trailer mean that Riot is bringing the ‘Widejoy’ meme back?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that way since the trailer is likely to be an April Fools’ joke by Riot Games.

It isn’t the first time Riot Games is pranking Valorant fans on April Fools, though. If you’ve been following Valorant for a while, you’d probably remember the April Fools patch notes that changed Brimstone smokes to 100 seconds. Obviously, that patch was never implemented, and the chances of the ‘Widejoy’ mode being added to the game are also pretty slim.

New Valorant Agent 20 Abilities Leaked Ahead of Its Release

Sonu Banerjee
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New Valorant Agent 20 Abilities Leaked Ahead of Its Release

Due to the absence of any new Agents in the Valorant Episode 4 Act 2 update, players of the shooter have been looking forward to seeing a new Agent being introduced to the title for quite a while now.

Luckily, details of the upcoming Valorant Agent 20 seem to have already been leaked ahead of its release, and it’s all set to be added to the Valorant roster with the heavily anticipated Episode 4 Act 3 update.

Credible Valorant leaker ‘ValorLeaks’ has recently leaked the abilities of the enigmatic Valorant Agent 20, and from the initial looks, it seems that the next Agent will be a female initiator and a competition to Sova.

Valorant Agent 20 Abilities

Here are all the abilities of Valorant’s Agent 20, as leaked by the Twitter user:

C- Prowler

Send out a creature that can follow trails or be controlled by moving your mouse. Upon reaching an enemy, they will be nearsighted for three seconds. Only one creature is allowed per trail.

Q- Seize

Equip and fire an orb that will stay in the air for a max of 1.5 seconds before slamming into the ground. When the orb hits the ground, enemies within its nearby radius will be tethered, take damage, and be deafened.

E- Haunt 

Equip and fire an orb that will stay in the air and then hit the ground. It will then go back into the air and turn into an eye. If Enemies are spotted by the eye, they will be revealed and a trailed debuff is applied.

X (Ultimate) – Nightfall

Send out a wave of dark mist. If the mist hits an enemy, they will be deafened, trailed, and decayed.

Valorant Next Agent Release Date

The next Valorant agent, codenamed Bounty Hunter, will be introduced to the live servers alongside the Episode 4 Act 3 update, which is scheduled for release around April 27, 2022.

BMOC 2022 – The Grind Day 1: Overall Standings, Results, and more

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BMOC 2022 – The Grind Day 1: Overall Standings, Results, and more

The first day of Battlegrounds Mobile India Open Challenge – The Grind ended with Team XO finishing at the top of the overall leaderboard. The team scored a total of 69 points in 3 matches. Team Soul finished at the second spot with 51 points followed by FS Esports with 44 points.

A total of 6 matches were played on the first day of the event where each hot the opportunity to compete in 3 matches. FS Esports was the team that scored the highest placement points whereas Team XO took the highest finishing points.

BGMI Open Challenge – The Grind Day 1

  1. Team XO – 69 points
  2. Team Soul – 51 points
  3. FS Esports – 44 points
  4. Global Esports – 38 points
  5. Chemin Esports – 37 points
  6. Team X Spark – 36 points
  7. 7Sea Esports – 35 points
  8. Hyderabad Hydras – 33 points
  9. Entity Gaming – 30 points
  10. Team Enigma Forever – 29 points
  11. Team Mayhem – 25 points
  12. Team 8Bit – 22 points
  13. Truerippers Esports – 21 points
  14. Team Insane Esports- 20 points
  15. Team INS – 19 points
  16. Revenge Esports – 19 points
  17. Skylightz Gaming – 18 points
  18. Team Celtz -15 points
  19. Reckoning Esports – 15 points
  20. Enigma Gaming – 15 points
  21. Nigma Galaxy – 15 points
  22. Godlike Esports – 15 points
  23. OR Esports – 14 points
  24. Revenant – 12 points
  25. Orangutan – 11 points
  26. Team MG – 10 points
  27. TSM – 10 points
  28. R Esports – 8 points
  29. Blind Esports – 8 points
  30. Chicken Rushers – 6 points
  31. Big Brother Esports – 5 points
  32. Hydra Official – 2 points

How to Turn On Streamer Mode in Valorant

Sonu Banerjee
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How to Turn On Streamer Mode in Valorant

Unknown to many avid Valorant players out there, the competitive shooter by Riot allows players to enable streamer mode to protect their privacy in-game. While it’s especially useful for bigger streamers and content creators out there to prevent stream sniping and targeted queuing, anyone can choose to do it in order to maintain anonymity while playing Valorant.

While there isn’t a specific ‘Streamer Mode’ present in Valorant per se, players can enable a number of in-game features to help them remain anonymous in their games.

For instance, players can hide their name from others and enable generic names for players outside of their party. These options can be enabled from the general tab in the settings menu.

Once these settings have been enabled, players outside of your party will see your name as the Agent that you use in that game.

For instance, if you pick Sage in a particular game, players outside of your party will see your name as ‘Sage’ instead of your Riot nickname. Similarly, for the second setting, you’ll see Agent names for other players.

Do keep in mind that these settings don’t take effect if enabled in the middle of a game. Make sure to enable these options before you queue for a game for them to work properly.

Fnatic Suspend Valorant Pro BraveAF After Player Allegedly Supports Russia-Ukraine War

Pranav Nalawade
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Fnatic Suspend Valorant Pro BraveAF After Player Allegedly Supports Russia-Ukraine War

Professional Valorant Player BraveAF, who currently plays for Swedish org Fnatic has been suspended from the active roster after screenshots revealed that he was in support of the Russia-Ukraine war. As per the chat log, BraveAF did not categorize the invasion as ‘all out war’. 

The screenshots were first posted by WePlay Media Talent and Ukrainian national Aleksei “yXo” Maletskyi. The chat logs were of a conversation between Andrey ‘BraveAF’ Gorchakov and a Ukrainian woman Nikole ‘T1gerToes’ Lee. In the instagram DM screenshot, BraveAF can be  seen saying

“I really hope it’s going to end as soon as possible. And Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus will be united because no one from the West wants it. It’s needed. And I hope that yours [Ukrainian people] will understand it as fast as possible. They want to divide us, set us against each other. 

People from the West achieved the collapse of the USSR and now they want to collapse the CIS. And Ukraine gives way. Putin is not going to let it happen. Okay, I’m not really competent in this type of thing. I will be honest, I’m judging through my lens. You should give up as fast as possible. there will be no casualties among civilians. Putin said. It’s not about civilians. It’s not all-out war.”

According to Nikole, the screenshots were from 24th february 2022, the day the invasion started. Later on the Valorant pro deleted the conversation, saying ‘you burned our correspondence’ and then proceeded to block her.

Once these screenshots were made public, the community was outraged and wanted an immediate response from fnatic. Other esports pros from Valorant and other games alike, shared their views on the situation.

CSGO legend s1mple said “you can immediately see the mentality of a professional – GIVE UP!”

FunPlus Phoenix IGL ‘ANGE1’ said “Some Russians think we should give up as fast as possible, right BraveAF? Well this is your and yours government biggest mistake, u don’t know sh**about Ukrainians”

A few hours later, fnatic released a statement saying they have launched an investigation into the matter. They also said that BraveAF is suspended from pro play until the investigation is finished, and there will be more updates in the coming days.

NaVi Beat AGO in One of The Longest, Recording-Breaking Maps

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NaVi Beat AGO in One of The Longest, Recording-Breaking Maps

ESL Pro League Season 15’s 4th and final group, Group D kicked off with a marathon match between NaVi and AGO. NaVi were playing without IGL Boombl4 as he was out due to COVID-19, and NaVi Junior member headtr1ck took his place.

NaVi started the series with a stomp, winning AGO’s map pick with ease as they posted 14 CT rounds to AGO’s 1. The map ended 16-1 and we looked set for a washout come NaVi’s pick of Mirage.

The second map was anything but a continuation of the first map as both teams went absolutely toe to toe on Mirage. NaVi won 7 T rounds as AGO got 8 CT ones and after the switch it was more of the same as regulation ended with the score at 15-15. 

AGO cashed in on the fact that NaVi were playing with a stand-in and went ham on the A site, where headtr1ck was often the sole defender.

They kept it close in Overtime, as the map went to a second, third and then a fourth overtime. It seemed the map would never end as fans took to twitter to get the memes going.

S1mple was by far the best player on the server as he racked up kill after kill and clutch after clutch to keep the marathon going for NaVi. 

The map finally ended, after 7 overtimes as AGO ran out of steam and NaVi closed out the map 37-34 to win their first series of ESL Pro League S15 2-0. NaVi and AGO played more rounds in Overtime (41) than they did in regulation (30) which is absolutely bonkers.

S1mple ended Mirage with 65 kills to his name, followed by b1t who had 56 frags to push NaVi through to victory. s1mple had a total of 86 frags in the series, and was the highest rated player on the server with a 1.49 rating.

NAVI vs AGO ended up being the 4th longest map in CSGO history with 71 rounds. The longest matchup ever was a UK Nation Championship map which ended 46-42 between TeamXENEX and EXCEL.

When it comes to Big events, this was the longest map ever in history with 71 rounds beating the record of 66 rounds which was set by NaVi also, at ESL One COlogne 2017 vs Cloud9.

It took 5 years to overtake the previous record. The latest entry in the top 5 longest maps at big events was at DreamHack Malmo 2019 between FURIA and fnatic with 66 rounds as well.

With the win, NaVi are now 1-0 up in Group D. They will play Evil Geniuses tomorrow and look to continue their streak to qualify for playoffs as quickly as possible. 

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