Canadian rifler Keith ‘NAF’ Markovic extended his contract with Team Liquid, sending news of his exit down the drain. It was rumored that only Jonathhan ‘EliGE’ Jablonowski would remain on the roster and the rest of Team Liquid would be going their different ways as a rebuild was incoming.
NAF-FLY first teased on Twitter about a contract being signed and fans weren’t sure for whom he had signed. A few hours later, Team Liquid announced that he ‘re-signed for Liquid until 2024’.
NAF has been instrumental in Team Liquid’s success and was part of the roster that won the Intel Grand Slam in 63 days in 2019. He was also the 7th best player of 2019 and 6th best in 2018. He had a rough patch in 2020 and narrowly missed out on a top 20 position, placing #21 in HLTV’s world rankings for 2020.
It seems NAF will remain part of the roster, but as Jake ‘Stewie2k’ Yip and ‘EliGE’ said previously, changes are coming especially for Gabriel ‘FalleN’ Toledo and ‘Stewie2k’ himself after their exit at PGL Stockholm and calling themselves a ‘dead team’.
India, 29 November 2021 – A month of intense battles and riveting action has culminated in HQ Esports being crowned champions of the Free Fire Asia Championship (FFAC). The FFAC Grand Finals saw many closely-fought matches, but HQ Esports emerged victorious with 3 Booyahs and 40 kills, which allowed them to register a score of 86 and take home the prize money of US$ 80,000.
Highlights of the FFAC Grand Finals
HQ Esports faced many challenges in the lead-up to the Grand Finals. The finals tested their mettle but they still managed to consistently play well and score 3 Booyahs even as they faced formidable opponents. GPX tried to close the gap in the final round but was soon overwhelmed by a turn of events. HQ. Thaison blew away all competition with his agility, which proved pivotal in bringing the HQ Esports back to the top.
CGGG.Momo earned the title of the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for his outstanding performance displayed during the FFAC, having scored a remarkable 16 kills.
With 86 points, HQ Esports wins the championship, with GPX and CGGG trailing closely with 84 points and 79 points, respectively.
Free Fire Asia Championship Recap
The FFAC gathered 31 of the best teams across 7 regions to compete for the championship. FFAC saw incredible action as teams lit the virtual arena ablaze with their competitive spirit and passion. For a replay of the action, visit the Free Fire Esports Official YouTube Channel.
Team Elite show what they are capable of
The FFAC also had an Indian team win a booyah at an international tournament for the very first time. Team Elite got the Booyah in the 7th round of the FFAC Finals which also played a pivotal role in denying the GPX the chance to win the tournament, as they ended up coming 2nd in round 7.
Plans on the horizon
As FFAC comes to an end, fans and players can look forward to the Free Fire World Series returning next May.
The 6-week long and intense matches of Peacekeeper Elite League 2021 Season 4 ended with Six Two Eight winning the championship. A total of the best 20 Chinese teams started their journey in the PEL 2021 Season 4 out of which 15 teams made it to the finals. Six Two Eight scored a total of 227 points followed by The Chosen which placed at the second spot in the finals with 224 points.
Peacekeeper Elite League 2021 Season 4 featured a massive prize pool of ¥14,400,000 CNY which got distributed among all the teams. Six Two Eight took home ¥2,470,000 CNY as part of the prize pool while Team Weibo was the team to win the highest portion of the rewards. 珊志 from Six Two Eight won the Regular Season’s MVP award and ¥200,000 CNY. Suk from The Chosen was the final MVP and 770 from Da Kun Gaming won the best rookie award.
PEACEKEEPER ELITE LEAGUE 2021 SEASON 4 FINAL STANDINGS
Six Two Eight – 227 points
The Chosen – 224 points
LGD Gaming – 200 points
Tianba – 176 points
All Gamers – 163 points
Nova Esports – 157 points
The Esports Club – 148 points
Team Weibo – 143 points
Tong Jia Bao Esports – 136 points
Royal Never Give Up – 130 points
Four Angry Men – 128 points
ThunderTalk Gaming – 126 points
Team Pai – 124 points
ShowTime – 120 points
Qing Jiu Club – 86 points
With the completion of PEL Season 4, PMGC 2021 East has got its two finalist teams from Chinese region. Six Two Eight qualified for the Global Championship for finishing at the first position in the finals whereas Nova Esports finished at the second spot in the PEL 2021 Championship points leaderboard.
Free Fire is a popular mobile battle royale game developed by Garena. This game has grown exponentially in terms of the player base and it was the most downloaded game in 2020. The developers tend to award players with free items on a regular basis and one of the methods to do so is by using redeem codes.
Free Fire is known for its cosmetic lineup and this varies from gun skins and character outfits to in-game emote, equipment skins, and character modifications. Players need to spend real cash in order to make personalized additions to their skin collection but sometimes, they can use redeem codes to get some items for free.
Garena releases redeem codes according to a specific region and certain fixed rewards are included per redeem code. These regions are decided by developers by accounting for different occasions and hence, some players may get free items while others have to wait for their turn.
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HOW TO USE REDEEM CODES IN FREE FIRE
If you do not know how to redeem these rewards, follow these steps to get the items for free:
Visit Free Fire Redemption website and log in with your Free Fire ID.
Players can use Facebook or Google Sign-in options.
Copy the redeem codes and paste them into the box. Click on submit.
After the process is completed, you will receive items directly in Free Fire.
As mentioned earlier, the redeem codes can be region or user-limited, and hence, you have to comply with the requirements in order to get these rewards. If you get an error of region restricts, simply wait for the next list to come out.
The codes are also user limited so after a certain number, they might stop working. In order to avoid this, use these codes as soon as you can.
Battlegrounds Mobile India Series 2021 is the first official esports event after the game got released exclusively for the players based in India. To reveal more information about the upcoming event, Krafton has launched a new show on its YouTube channel with the name “Chai Time”. The first episode featured Animesh Aggarwal, Abhijeet Andhare, and Ocean Sharma. BGIS 2021 features a massive prize pool of 1,00,00,000 INR which will be distributed among the top 16 grand finalist teams.
In this episode, Mazy, the caster of the show revealed “The Grind”. It is a two-week event, featuring 32 invited teams, that will serve as a practice session for the teams before the start of the major event. Although the names for the official event have not been announced by the organizers but we could expect to see the majority of the teams from this list playing in the online qualifiers.
Invited teams for BGIS 2021: The Grind
Velocity Gaming
Team XO
7Sea Esports
8Bit
AXOM Esports
Blind Esports
BurnX Official
Chemin Esports
Enigma Gaming
ForceOne
Global Esports
GodLike Esports
Hyderabad Hydras
Hydra Official
Team Incognito
Marcos Gaming
Nigma Galaxy
Orangutan
OR Esports
Orgless5
Reckoning Esports
Revenant Esports
Rivalry Esports
Skylightz Gaming
Team SouL
Team Forever
Team Insane
Team Mayhem
XSpark
True Rippers
TSM
UDOG India
These 32 teams are equally divided into a group of 8 teams that will be practicing against each other.
Schedule and Format for BGIS 2021: The Grind
As revealed earlier, The 32 invited teams will be divided into 4 groups and will face off in a fierce round-robin format for 2 weeks. Week 1 will be held from December 2nd to 5th, while Week 2 will take place from December 9th to 12th. The teams will play for a total of 8 days in the upcoming two-week event.
India’s one of the largest social gaming platforms, WinZO has partnered with the France-based global gaming giant, Gameloft to help them catalyze their reach and revenue in Indian vernacular markets.
Gameloft is a global market leader in casual gaming and has over 150 massively popular titles, such as Asphalt 9 and other action & racing games, garnering over 1.2 billion downloads worldwide. Understanding the merit in increasing vernacular reach, Gameloft will leverage WinZO’s 65 million+ user base to improve monetization in India.
Gameloft in order to further distribute to the deeper parts of the country will leverage WinZO’s users, based in India’s tier 2 to tier 5 markets, 80% of whom are consuming the games in non-English languages.
India accounts for 12% of downloads, translating into approx. 150 million users, but accrues only a meager 0.6% of their global revenue share making it a high potential market and an underutilized one. For Gameloft, this is a challenge that WinZO is strategically positioned to help solve and aid.
As a part of this collaboration, WinZO will also be offering its platform’s capabilities such as streaming, gaming formats, and WinZO Store to drive Asphalt 9’s revenue. This serves as an apt opportunity for Gameloft to better monetize the vast engagement coming from the region.
Apart from hosting over 80 games in 12 vernacular languages and multiple formats, WinZO facilitates more than 2.5 billion micro-transactions per month. The platform also has an in-app marketplace, WinZO Store, that facilitates the sale of in-app currencies at the lowest commissions compared to any conventional app stores such as Google Play Store, Apple Play Store amongst others.
This collaboration will also see WinZO deploy its strong influencer base to increase user awareness and penetration regarding Gameloft’s global titles. Mobilization of this captive regional influencer base will create localized content around these titles, which would potentially garner 1 Billion + impressions. Content-specific to these titles will be live-streamed in 12+ languages with an eventual target to drive sales and run live deals.
Commenting on the new association, Paavan Nanda, the CEO & co-founder of WinZO said, “WinZO is glad to have partnered with yet another world-class publisher Gameloft to help them leverage our strong market presence and its deep understanding. More than 60% of our 65 million+ user base are premium paying users which makes us well-positioned to help big global companies to increase their presence in India’s booming vernacular gaming market.”
This partnership comes ahead of WinZO’s recent partnership with another France-based casual gaming major- Voodoo to bring two of their most popular titles Crowd City and Dune on WinZO. WinZO is known for its innovative micro-transaction model which is a proven success in developing markets like India where the propensity to spend over gaming is considerably low.
WinZO is working towards the development of the Indian Gaming Ecosystem in the mark of which they recently announced the launch of The Gaming Lab initiative in collaboration with marquee investor Kalaari Capital, asides from its standalone Game Developer Fund-III of $20 million.
Brazilian Organisation FURIA announced that Vinicius ‘VINI’ Figueiredo will not be a part of their CS:GO Roster going into the 2022 season. According to FURIA coach ‘guerri’, they will add a dedicated AWPer for 2022, and will not rely on IGL Andrei ‘arT’ Piovezan for AWPing duties.
VINI too confirmed this via a twitlonger, saying that he got to know about the decision and was saddened by it, but will continue to play CS:GO Professionally and that he’s currently evaluating his options.
It was rumored that VINI would be joining Team Liquid once they rebuild their roster after the departures of ‘FalleN’ and ‘Stewie2k’. It is currently uncertain who will remain on the Liquid roster, except for ‘EliGE’ who has plans to stay with the org still, especially after the news of nitr0’s potential return. Vitality player shox was also in talks with Liquid.
VINI has been a part of FURIA for more than 4 years and has represented them at 3 Majors – IEM Katowice 2019, StarLadder Berlin 2019 and PGL Stockholm 2021. He enjoyed the most success during the online era where FURIA won EPL S12 NA, DreamHack MAsters Spring and IEM New York 2020, this was of course with Henrique ‘HEN1’ Teles on the roster.
With the removal of VINI, FURIA will have the following roster:
Andrei “arT” Piovezan
Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato
Yuri “yuurih” Santos
André “drop” Abreu
Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira (coach)
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BIG’s run at BLAST Premier Fall Finals was cut short by FaZe Clan as they eliminated the Germans with a swift 2-0 in the lower bracket on Day 3. FaZe came into the game on the back of a devastatingly close loss to Heroic while BIG were outdone by NaVi. This was the first game from BLAST in 754 days that featured a LAN environment as well as a crowd at the Royal Arena, Copenhagen.
This continues BIG’s downward trajectory after the departure of XANTARES, as they were eliminated in the Challengers Stage of the PGL Major, lost to fnatic at DH Open November and are now the first ones to bow out of the Fall Finals. FaZe will go on to meet Astralis in the Lower Bracket 3 hours later after the Danes lost to Vitality in a close game yesterday.
MAP 1 : BIG 11-16 FaZe Clan
BIG were underwhelming on their own map pick as well as on their opponent’s. They started of decent but FaZe replied with 7 rounds of their own, but BIG won out the last 3 rounds to stay afloat in the tie with a lead of 8-7.
Having shown good CT sides before, on Dust2 there were a lot of holes in their defences today as Finn ‘karrigan’ Anderssen out-called Johannes ‘tabseN’ Woodarz through and through. It was Havard ‘rain’ Nygaard that FaZe could rely on again as he had a masterclass in entry fragging and racked up 26 kills, closely followed by Russell ‘Twistszz’ van Dulken with 25 to give his side an easy 16-11 win.
MAP 2 : BIG 9-16 FaZe Clan
FaZe started off their pick of Inferno with a pistol win, courtesy of Olof ‘olofmeister’ Kajbjer’s 1v2 clutch against a 5 man mid rush from BIG Clan. They went on a streak of 6-0 and looked prime for a blow out but BIG came back in fine form thanks to IGL tabseN again as they got 7 rounds on the CT side, respectable by all means after a 6-0 start.
It was FaZe’s CT side that truly sealed the map as the Germans only found 2 rounds, here and there in a half that was FaZe’s from the get go. They couldn’t win their duels and were outsmarted by the CTs at every turn as FaZe won 5 clutches and were lethal on the CT side to win the game 16-9.
Valorant is very well received by the gaming community right from its announced and closed beta testing. The game enjoyed fame in its very early stages and the developers quickly launched its global versions after a few months of testing. For a game that is newly built from scratch, there are bound to be some corners left unchecked. As a result, the Valorant Error Code 138 came out. Don’t worry. We have got your back. Keep reading to know how to fix the Valorant Error Code 138.
How to fix Valorant Error 138?
Uninstall Vanguard
Vanguard is the anti-cheat software provided by Riot for Valorant. Go to the Program and features section inside Control Panel. Then right-click on the Riot Vanguard and click on Remove. After that restart your PC.
Bcdedit Config
Open your Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following codes:
bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx OptIn
bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off
bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks off
Note: If you get “The value is protected by Secure Boot policy and cannot be modified or deleted” message, go to your BIOS and turn off the Secure Boot option and rerun the commands.
Change Process Priority
Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
Find Vanguard tray notification.
Right-click on it and then on Go to details.
There you have to set the priority to Normal.
Restart Valorant.
Windows Compatibility Setting
Right-click on the desktop icon of Valorant.
Click on Properties.
Then go to the Compatibility section.
After that click on Run this program in compatibility mode.
Select Windows 8.
Once you are done, click on Run the game client as administrator and apply the settings.
G2 Esports, one of the world’s leading entertainment and esports brands, has signed New Era, one of the biggest brands in headwear, as its exclusive headwear partner.
G2 has also released its first cap and beanie collection, available for fans to buy, to mark the partnership.
The collection has been designed in collaboration between G2 Esports and New Era and features a mix between essentials and lifestyle items. The collection blends the G2 personality and the iconic G2 samurai logo with traditional New Era design and quality. Fans can purchase the collection from G2 Ecomm, New Era Online, Brick&Mortar retail, New Era’s 3rd party retailers, G2s signed resellers/retailers.
The deal will see New Era and G2 Esports come together to create a series of headwear collections in both core and lifestyle ranges, with various designs and styles of production.
“New Era is number one in headwear. G2 is number one in gaming. If that’s not a match made in heaven, I don’t know what is. Let’s have some fun,” said Carlos ‘ocolete’ Roriguez, CEO of G2 Esports.
Carlos ‘ocolete’ Roriguez, CEO, G2 Esports.
The partnership marks New Era’s most recent foray into the world of esports and further signals the global potential of the esports industry, which has grown exponentially year on year. New Era has selected G2 as its latest esports partner due to the reputation for innovation and creativity the brand has developed since its inception and the partnership is the largest for the American headwear brand across Europe.
G2’s latest partnership with New Era indicates how the esports team is making its mark in premier lifestyle, entertainment, and apparel. As one of the most successful esports teams, G2 Esports has recently signed global deals with Adidas and Ralph Lauren, as the brand cements its position across entertainment and lifestyle.
New Era becomes the newest household name brand to invest in esports and joins G2’s ever-expanding roster of commercial partners. New Era joins Ralph Lauren, Adidas, Betway, BMW, Mastercard, Twitch, Pringles, and Red Bull in G2’s stable of household name-brand partners.
An increasing number of global consumer brands are recognizing the opportunities that esports offer them to tap into a global, engaged millennial audience. 80% of G2’s global fanbase sit in the prized 18-34 demographic, and G2 boasted 5.8bn impressions across all of its social media channels in 2020.
In recent years, G2 secured a 10% engagement rate across social media, which compares favorably with some of the biggest sports brands in the world (Liverpool FC 1.15%, Manchester City FC 1.23%, and The Boston Red Sox 1.78%).
