The second day of Battlegrounds Mobile India Series 2021 Grand finals round ended with Team XO finishing at the top of the overall leaderboard. The team scored a total of 139 points. TSM finished at the second spot with 127 points followed by Reckoning Esports with 122 points.
Godlike Esports, the leading team from day 1 slipped down to the fifth spot with 109 points. While Tactical Esports, The Supari Gang, and R Esports are at the bottom three spots after the completion of the second day.
BGIS 2021 Grand Finals Overall Standings
Team XO – 139 points
TSM – 127 points
Reckoning Esports – 122 points
Skylightz Gaming – 112 points
Godlike Esports – 109 points
OR Esports – 108 points
Hyderabad Hydras – 99 points
UDog India – 95 points
Revenant Esports – 92 points
Enigma Gaming – 72 points
Old Hood ESP – 68 points
Team X Spark – 65 points
7Sea Esports – 65 points
Tactical Esports – 63 points
The Supari Gang – 63 points
R Esports – 29 points
The top 16 teams qualifying from Semi-Finals will play 24 matches over a time period of 4 days. The squad with the highest cumulative score at the end of 24 matches shall be declared as the winner of iQOO BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA SERIES 2021.
A new post made by the official Latin America Valorant Social Media Handles is stirring up conversations in the Valorant community, as it might be potentially hinting at upcoming Agent skins in the tactical shooter.
In a series of posts that caught Valorant fans across the world off-guard, the Latin American Valorant social media handles posted videos of Reyna in a completely different look.
One of the posts was captioned, “I’ve barely arrived and I can already feel their fear, despicable humans!” while another one reads, “Come on, get closer. Tonight calm might be your last breath.”
However, the concept of Agent skins coming to the title hasn’t been confirmed by Riot Games as of yet, so these are all still speculations that should be taken with a grain of salt.
In a previous interview, the Valorant devs had commented on the possibility of Agent skins in the future. “We don’t ever want to put a blank no on it. We are talking about it, but as we always say, we have to do it in a smart and correct way that doesn’t compromise gameplay,” art lead Sean Marino said.
Some avid fans are also suspecting that Agent skins might be added as a reward for a potential third tier of Agent contracts. Currently, Agent contracts are limited to two tiers per agent, with the final reward for the second tier being a weapon skin based on the specific Agent.
Valorant’s newest power ranger, Neon, is firing on all cylinders to speed up the game meta. Here’s how to play Neon and outpace the opponents.
Riot Games has just rolled out a brand new agent that shoots laser blasts from fingers and can dive up to seven meters. Neon is stylish, electrifying, and fast. Her kit is pretty simple to understand, but her speed is tough to tackle. Here’s how players can squeeze full juice out of Neon’s kit.
Neon is equipped with a Fast Lane, Relay Bolt, and High Gear. Her ultimate Overdrive is a combination of electricity and speed, setting her apart from any other Valorant agent. Here are a few tips for playing Neon and utilizing her kit efficiently.
Fast Lane (C)
Facts: Neon is supplied with dual oceanic curtains that block enemy vision and render damage. For 300 creds, Fast Lane generates a total of 170 damage to enemies who come in consistent contact with the electric lane. The 47-meter wall stays up for six seconds, enough to provide safe routes on most Valorant maps.
How to use: Fast Lane mostly comes in handy on the attacker side. Use these barriers to create a safe path towards the bomb point. On maps like Split, Breeze, Ascent, players must pick Neon for her Fast Lane to increase their odds of winning. Neon players can create a safe route into the site to get the Spike plant on straight entryways. Attackers can also use it as bait by activating the walls and peeking from the starting point as enemies often start spamming into the Fast Lane. When they’re aiming at the barriers, peek at them to get bonus kills.
On defense, Neon can pick first fights using her High Gear and then escape the duel with the help of her Fast Lane. The barriers allow her to divide multiple duels into sections to take down enemies one by one.
Relay Bolt (Q)
Facts: Relay bolt is Valorant’s most powerful concuss so far as it splits into two areas upon bouncing. This crowd control power destabilizes enemies’ vision and delays their firing. For 200 creds, players get a concussion that winds up in 1.15 seconds and maims enemies for three seconds.
How to use: Relay Bolt isn’t Neon’s most powerful ability, but it comes in handy during heavy duel situations. Using her concuss ball, the agent can draw opponents out of their hiding spots. It’s recommended to use it mid-fights so the dual crowd control can render maximum damage to enemies within its AoE. Make sure you’re throwing it in from safety. Pairing with another agents’ molotov will warrant an easy ability-kill.
High Gear (E)
Facts: High Gear provides Neon with supersonic powers, allowing her to run at the speed of light. The agent draws strength from her lightning tank and comes to a halt once the tank depletes. She can also slide up to seven meters, but she must bag two kills to dive more than once. During High Gear, Neon can’t equip a weapon and leaves faint footsteps behind.
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How to use: This is one of her most viable powers, as she can outpace her speed contender Jett. Use this ability to escape risky situations or to break into sites. Paired with her light curtains, the agent becomes extremely powerful on the attacking side. It’s recommended to buy a Bucky or Judge to extract full use out of Neon. Press E and burst into enemies with powerful shotguns to bag bonus kills. This ability becomes ultra-OP when enemies are blind-sighted, and least expect an agent to be on them.
How to use Neon’s ultimate?
Facts: Neon’s Overdrive (X) is hands down one of the most overpowered ultimates in Valorant. On seven ult points, the agent runs fast and draws all her energy into the tip of her fingers. Laser blasts shoot from her tips, dealing a maximum of 22 damage per tick. She can also slide during her ult and equip weapons as well. However, her tank would continue to use the energy once she activates Overdrive. She’s provided with 40 ammo per magazine and an infinite reserve. When Neon depletes her tank, it reloads after a brief delay.
How to use: Learning curve of Neon’s Overdrive isn’t as high. Jett players can easily control their movement and shoot lightning blasts at enemies. Use this ability when you spot multiple enemies in your sight with less cover. It’s not recommended to activate Overdrive for one enemy on larger locations. By the time you find the second opponent, her light tank would have been depleted.
Are you an avid Elder Scrolls Online player and facing any server issues while playing the game online? Well, it’s not only you, probably thousands of players are facing the same problem as Elder Scrolls Online is facing an outage. However, if you want to check out if ESO is down or not, keep reading this article.
Elder Scrolls Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is available on Windows OS, macOS, and consoles.
How to check Elder Scrolls Online Server Status?
You can always check out the server status by just logging into your ESO account. However, it’s not an ideal way.
The best way to check if the Elder Scrolls Online servers are up or down, by the ESO Server Status website. The webpage basically pings all the ESO megaservers every second and shows you the latest status of the servers. In addition, the website refreshes automatically. Therefore, you can just open the webpage and leave it open.
The website covers every platform’s servers. Next time check out this webpage before launching the game to ensure that the Elder Scrolls Online servers are online.
CSGO Matchmaking may have its flaws but it is still the Go-to game mode for most players. If you are a casual player, it is likely that you prefer CSGO MM games, instead of third party matchmaking services like FACEIT, ESEA, GamersClub and 5E Arena. These services are good in a lot of ways, CSGO Matchmaking has its own charm, with the rank displaying right next to your avatar be it a Gold Nova or Global Elite.
But hackers aren’t the only issue in CSGO, there are other problems at hand in MM. Due to weird queue times and dwindling player base, players are matched up against players with completely different ranks and skill groups. A silver elite may be matched up with Master Guardians or even Global Elites in some cases, which ruins the player experience.
LIST OF ALL CSGO RANKS
Silver 1
Silver 2
Silver 3
Silver 4
Silver Elite
Silver Elite Master
Gold Nova 1
Gold Nova 2
Gold Nova 3
Gold Nova Master
Master Guardian
Master Guardian 2
Master Guardian Elite
Distinguished Master Guardian
Legendary Eagle
Legendary Eagle Master
Supreme Master First Glass
The Global Elite
There are a total of 6 Silver ranks, 4 Gold Nova ranks and 4 Master Guardian ranks. Players mostly vie for the ‘Black Ranks’ Which can be achieved only after ranking up from Master Guardian Elite (MGE) to Distinguished Master Guardian (DMG).
The Global Elite is the highest Rank in CSGO.
RANK DISPARITY IN DIFFERENT REGIONS, WHY YOU MATCH VS GLOBALS AND SMFCS?
Regions with a low player base have the worst rank distribution in CSGO, and North America and Oceania are the worst affected.
Leetify put together a detailed collection of Data, to find out why this disparity exists and why there is such weird matchmaking in your MM games. Since the most common rank is assumed to be Gold Nova, being in the middle of the pack, it is surprising to see that not being the case in some regions.
In North America, Majority of the players are in the Silver Ranks, making up for more than 50%. While in Europe, Asia and South America, silvers only make up 30% of the players.
AVERAGE CSGO RANK?
As expected the average rank in CSGO MM is Gold Nova. It may stretch up to Master Guardian in some regions but for the most part it is Gold Nova.
Some regions, due to a smaller player base have to accept their fate and be stuck in ELO hell of silver. This means that the average rank is Silver Elite in Oceania and Silver Elite Master in NA.
HOW MANY GLOBAL ELITES ARE THERE IN CSGO?
According to the stats from Leetify, only 0.4-1.4% of players are Global Elites. Global Elite being the highest rank, is very difficult to conquer and with the ever present problem of Hackers in CSGO, it is even more commendable when a player reaches the Global Elite Rank.
Asia has the lowest share with 0..4% Global Elites whille Europe and Latin America Stand out with 1.4% Global elites each.
Professional CSGO player Alex “FUSiON” Dincof has passed away unexpectedly on January 3, 2022, at the young age of 23. The exact reason behind his death is still unclear.
The Italian CSGO pro started his career in competitive CSGO when he was 17-year-old. In 2016, he joined the esports organization DOGES before winning his first LAN tournament shortly after. The team landed a second-place finish at ESL in 2017, a significant improvement over their 9th position finish in 2016.
After DOGES, Dincof had played for teams like Outplayed and MKers.
The CSGO community is left saddened by the news, and other CSGO pros across the world have expressed their condolences through social media.
“I just got to know that FUSiON passed away a couple of days ago,” Italian CSGO player Bibu said in a Tweet. “I can’t really believe this, and I don’t know how this happened but this feeling is horrible.”
I just got to know that FUSiON passed away a couple of days ago. I can't really believe this, and i don't know how this happened but this feeling is horrible. We met each other twice 2 weeks ago and thinking about him make me cry. RIP my brother💔
Garena releases new Free Fire redeem codes on a regular basis. These codes can then be used to get some interesting in-game rewards. Sometimes, players can even earn permanent skins from these codes but the chances are very less. Here are the redeem codes for 14th January 2022.
Free Fire is a popular game with a large player base and there are several events running around the world on a frequent basis. These events usually have redeem codes of their own so players enjoy them more times than any other title from the battle royale genre.
Here are some codes that you can try to get free rewards after using at the Free Fire Redemption Centre. They are as follows:
Krafton is making an interesting addition to Battlegrounds Mobile India soon and its first look has been leaked by a YouTuber. A video was recently posted by Priyank1798GC and it leaked the upcoming voice packs of Jonathan, Snax and Kaztro in English and Hindi language.
BGMI is one of the most popular games in India right now and some names have been at the forefront of it. The esports scene allied to this game is thriving right now and the entire community knows players like Jonathan and Snax. As per the leak, the officials have created in-game voice packs with the help of these celebrities.
A voice pack is simply the in-game chat function that players can use to give several commands without using the microphone. These can be things like marking enemies, locations and even giving radio commands like “Get the car” or “Fall Back”.
The voice packs come in a variety of languages in the global version of PUBG Mobile and now, a Hindi voice pack will be seen in BGMI as well. These packs could be customized by players and it looks like there could be a purchase option for different kinds of voice packs.
In the video, two kinds of voice packs are seen. They are Basic and Mythic voice packs and come in the voice of Jonathan, Snax and Kaztro. A total of six options could be added to the game.
This leak is not officially confirmed by any sources yet so it is hard to determine if all of these voice packs are actually going to be added in the game and how their value will be determined.
Leading South-Asian Esports NODWIN Gaming has successfully acquired a 100% stake in licensed merchandising retailer Planet Superheroes.
Planet Superheroes join the wide range of IPs owned by NODWIN Gaming and this acquisition will be aimed at providing merchandise at a global scale.
With several IPs under their name NODWIN Gaming including VCC, DreamHack, and NH7, there will be plenty of merch for them to play around with.
Established in 2015, Plant Superheros have catered to over 2L customers, shipping over 5L products the entire time there was in business. PS will likely integrate into NODWIN’s in-house assets as an e-commerce website for merchandise that is ready to scale in no time.
“The Indian gaming and esports industry has witnessed a metamorphic rise in its fan base in recent years. The acquisition of Planet Superheroes will enable NODWIN Gaming to have another strategic touch point with fans that celebrates a common love for all things gaming, pop culture and esports. We believe in increasing the existing offering of global brands to include mega tournaments, Games and even the popular talent and players like Mortal, Samay Raina, Tanmay, Ankit Panth and others,” said Akshat Rathee, Founder and MD, NODWIN Gaming.
“There is huge untapped monetization potential for gaming companies via merchandising and we share a common vision in realizing this potential with PSH joining NODWIN.” said Jaineel Aga, Founder and CEO of PSH.
This acquisition comes after they invested in Rusk Media and little by little, NODWIN is looking to build a supporting cast for their primary ventures, to ideally cater to the needs of esports fanatics in the region and beyond.
With talents like Samay Raina and Tanmay Bhat on board with them, heading into 2022, NODWIN will be looking to take the industry by storm.
The new BGMI 1.8 update is scheduled to release today and the players are excited to get their hands on the latest update in the game. The same update will be available to the global version of the game. The BGMI 1.8 update will have new events along with major in-game changes, read our complete article to know the complete details.
In a recent post, Krafton said, “Dear BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA fans, We are truly excited to bring the January update to you! Here’s the schedule for the distribution of the January Update version on January 14th. Please note that there is a difference in the distribution time for each platform (AOS/iOS) as shown in the schedule below.”
BGMI 1.8 Update release time
AOS (Google Playstore) : January 14 (Fri) 12:30 IST to January 14 (Fri) 20:00 IST
iOS (Apple App Store) : January 14 (Fri) 16:30 IST
The developers recommend installing in a wi-fi environment if possible when updating as lots of mobile data can be consumed.
The developers will notify you if the distribution gets delayed or completed early.
BGMI 1.8 Update
The hall screen UI is going through an update where new choices are likewise getting executed, like the Unranked variants, all things considered. Additionally, the choice to choose modes has been moved to the upper screen area for better accessibility.
Another matchmaking framework has been introduced with the 1.8 updates that will restrict players who are at Diamond level or above to matchmake with the ensuing two levels as it were. That implies diamond players can matchmake with players up to Ace level and not above. To matchmake with players who are in Ace Master, you should keep a base level position of Crown. Players who are Platinum and beneath can matchmake among themselves without any limitations.
The major interactivity change coming next season is the option to revive teammates’ underwater partners. Players will no longer face instant death after getting knocked on water. Indeed, even in took out state, they can swim to the shore without help from anyone else or get conveyed by colleagues.
The game will present a Spider-Man: No Way Home themed mode in exemplary coordinates because of its fresh out of the plastic new joint effort with Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most recent portion – Spider-Man: No Way Home. In any case, the specific ongoing interaction subtleties of this themed mode have not been uncovered at this point. The themed mode will come to both Erangel and Livik positioned exemplary matches.
