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Free Fire awarded with ‘Esports Mobile Game of the Year’ title

Divyesh Moghe
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Free Fire awarded with ‘Esports Mobile Game of the Year’ title

Free Fire has emerged out to become the best ‘Esports Mobile Game of the Year’ for the second consecutive year at Esports Awards. This game developed by Garena is one of the biggest mobile battle royale titles with a massive player base.

Garena Free Fire recently picked up pace in the past couple of years to skyrocket as one of the most prominent games in the market. This game is somewhat different than other battle royale titles and has inclusion of things like active and passive skills which adds a layer of uniqueness to it. This has attracted a large population towards the game.

The active player number ranges in millions and subsequently, its esports rose in popularity as well. The competition was less fierce at the start but the difficult has increased exponentially and the tournaments have scaled likewise.

The numbers allied with Free Fire are very extraordinary with each tournament bagging millions of concurrent viewers. This is a testimony to its popularity. Esports Awards has hosted multiple games in this category but none of them has been able to snatch away the title from Free Fire for two years straight.

Esports Awards is a prestigious event for the esports industry where big names across the entire industry are celebrated. Valorant was named as the best title in PC esports and the same title has been secured by Free Fire for the mobile platform.

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Battlefield 2042 is one of the worst-rated games on Steam

Mohammed Sadiq
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Battlefield 2042 is one of the worst-rated games on Steam

Battlefield 2042, which was officially released just three days ago on November 19, has somehow managed to become one of the worst-reviewed Battlefield titles on Valve’s digital storefront, Steam despite releasing a month after its original release date.

According to Steam, Battlefield 2042 currently has 37,000+ reviews, out of which only 26% of the reviews are positive (11,259) while the rest of the reviews are full of complaints about the game’s rough launch. 

Its blatantly clear that a one month delay simply wasn’t enough for DICE to polish the game as one Steam user lists down several issues and missing features from the game, basic and essential features that were present in previous Battlefield titles such as VOIP, player scoreboards, Deathmatch modes, and a server browser. While another user says  “Give this game 2 years to fix itself but by then you’d already forgotten this game existed and would have spent money on something actually deserving of your time.”

Although EA has released a Day 1 patch that addressed several issues including Rubber banging, stuttering, and several other bugs that plagued the game’s Hazard Zone & Portal modes and several planned updates are in the works which will focus on fixing Soldier Revives, UAV-1 & Vehicle Balancing, and Missing Loadouts.

“It’s been great welcoming you all back onto the Battlefield throughout our Early Access launch,” EA tweeted, “These changes, and more, are presently scheduled for deploy at the end of next week.”

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Pokémon Go: Shinx Community Day Guide

Kanishka Thakur
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Pokémon Go: Shinx Community Day Guide

Pokemon Go has announced its Shinx Community Day, which will be held on November 21st, 2021. Our Pokemon Go: Shinx Community Day guide goes over ways to maximize the most of this event, Shinx’s Community Day perks, and more!

Starting Nov. 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in your local time zone, the regular Community Day perks, such as higher spawn and Shiny rate, will be active.

How To Maximize Your Shinx Community Day

Shinx Community Day offers a hatch distance bonus, which means that any eggs placed in Incubators during the event will hatch in 25% of the time it would normally take. As it’s the last regular Community Day of the year, Shinx Community Day also comes with additional benefits.

Candy received from transferring Pokémon will be tripled, and you’ll have a better chance of earning XL Candy. Further, three free Raid Passes will be handed to players from the spinning gyms. It will also cost 25% less Stardust to trade Pokémon between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in your local time.

How To Find a Shiny Shinx?

The players will be able to find Shiny Shinx much easier this time around. Community Day has increased the Shiny rate for the featured Pokemon. Players can also avoid grinding all day for the Shiny Shinx and simply pop an Incense and tap each Shinx that comes up. According to The Silph Road’s research, the Shiny rate during Community Days is around 1 in 25, which is not bad compared to the regular days.

Community Day Moves for Shinx’s Evolution – Luxray

Shiny Shinx evolves ultimately to Luxray and can be evolved anywhere between 11 AM till 7 PM in players’ local time on November 21st. The Shinx evolution will be able to learn Psychic Fangs, a psychic-type move.

For more Pokemon GO guides, make sure to check out how to get XL candy in Pokemon GO.

League Of Legends Worlds Final Draws 73.8 Million Peak Concurrent Viewers

Prateek Jain
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League Of Legends Worlds Final Draws 73.8 Million Peak Concurrent Viewers

Riot reports that the 2021 League Of Legends Worlds Championship Finale broke all the past records and had 73.8 million peak concurrent viewers and an average minute audience of 30.6 million worldwide, including Chinese streaming services.

According to a statement by Riot Games and Stream Hatchet, a live streaming analytics organization, the five-game finale between DWG KIA and Edward Gaming had 73,860,742 peak concurrent viewers. Even without the Chinese viewership, the finale peaked at 4 million concurrent viewers, the most of any LoL match in history without Chinese viewership.

The Worlds 2021 brought a 60.33% increase in peak concurrent viewers over 2020 and dwarfed 2020’s year-over-year growth improvement of 4.7% in peak concurrent viewers, according to Riot Games and Stream Hatchet. Viewership grew by nearly 28 million peak concurrents year-over-year, even with other Chinese teams involved in the action in each of the previous three Worlds finals. In 2020, the finale between Suning Gaming and DWG KIA (known as Damwon Gaming) drew 46,067,896 concurrents viewers. Team DWG KIA won the game with a comfortable 3-1 score over Suning Gaming.

The Worlds 2021 saw the repeat of rivalry between South Korean Vs Chinese teams. This time a victory in favor of the South Korean team — DWG KIA, would have made them the second team to win back-to-back Worlds titles. But alas the Chinese team, Edward Gaming took the series 3-2 over the DWG KIA.

Riot Games along with John Needham, President of Esports, and Naz Aletaha, Global Head of League of Legends Esports, announced these stats at a press conference at the Chase Center in San Fransisco ahead of an NBA matchup between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors on Sunday. The game developer also announced the city locations for Worlds 2022 in North America, which were leaked on Saturday.

Call of Duty: Mobile Season 10 brings a new Multiplayer map, a new themed event

The Crew
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Call of Duty: Mobile Season 10 brings a new Multiplayer map, a new themed event

Activision has released information about the tenth season in 2021 of Call of Duty: Mobile. Season 10 brings a new Multiplayer map, a new themed event, and Battle Pass. The new season has also brought the new Vacant Multiplayer map, the Search for Stansfield-themed event, two new weapons, a new Operator Skill, and Scorestreak.

New Rewards in the Shadows Return Battle Pass

Season 10 features a brand-new Battle Pass that includes free and premium items like new Operators, a new functional weapon, Weapon Blueprints, Calling Cards, Charms, COD Points (CP), and more.

Battle Pass Free Tiers

Earn the new Scorestreak – Orbital Laser at Tier 14. At Tier 21, get the SVD sniper rifle. Other free tier items include the M16 – Paranoid, Charm – Gilded Marksman, Calling Card – Five Finger Fillet, and more.

Premium Pass Tiers

Get the Battle Pass for the chance to earn all of the content available in the Shadows Return stream, including the new Stansfield Operator and Epic Operator Skins like Templar — Unredeemed, Alice — Rime, and Yegor —Needleworked. Get new Weapon Blueprints like the LK24 — Vanquished, SVD — Black Ironwood, PP19 Bizon — Hidden Prowler, and the AS VAL — Tagger.

New Multiplayer Map: Vacant

First featured in the original Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®, Vacant is a small map set in and around an abandoned office building. Close-quarter combat reigns indoors, while long-distance fighters will feel at home around the destroyed vehicles and containers outdoors. Master the whole environment to top the scoreboard no matter your location.

New MVP Replay

Fight hard and don’t let up for the chance to be featured as MVP at the end of the match. Show off your skills in the new MVP replay, where your best eliminations are displayed for all to see.

New Multiplayer Mode: Control

First experienced in Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4, Control tasks teams with the goal of attacking or defending two designated points before running out of respawns. Attackers must capture both points before the end of the time limit to win the round, while the defenders must fight to keep that from happening. Teams switch roles between rounds, and the first team to reach the round win limit wins the match.

Da Kun Gaming wins Wild Rift: Horizon Cup

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Da Kun Gaming wins Wild Rift: Horizon Cup

Wild Rift’s first-ever international tournament ‘Horizon Cup’ featuring the 10 teams from all regions ended with Da Kun Gaming emerging as the champions. DKG defeated the Chinese squad, ThunderTalk Gaming with a 4-2 score. Horizon Cup featured a massive prize pool of $500,000 USD which took place at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Group stage was played between November 13th – 17th, 2021 where the 10 teams were split into two groups of five teams. Da Kun Gaming and Thundertalk Gaming topped their respective groups and directly qualified for the semi-finals. Teams finishing at the second and third positions competed in the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Team Secret defeated SBTC Esports and KT Rolster defeated Sengoku Gaming to qualify for the semi-finals. DKG and Thundertalk Gaming won their semi-final matches.

The grand finals were a best of 7 matches where DKG took the first two rounds, Thundertalk Gaming came back strong with a 2-2 equalizer. The next two games were won by DKG which sealed their names on the trophy.

Blast Premier Fall Final 2021: All you need to know

Bharat Kotwani
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Blast Premier Fall Final 2021: All you need to know

With the BLAST Premier Fall Final event on the horizon, we will witness top partnered teams from across the globe lock horns in a bid to qualify for the Fall Final tournament organized by the event organizer, to start from November 24 onwards.

  • Event : BLAST Premier Fall Final.
  • Location : Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Venue : Royal Arena.
  • Event Type : Offline.
  • Event Format : Double Elimination.
  • Start Date : November 24, 2021.
  • End Date : November 28, 2021.

The BLAST Premier Fall Final will feature 6 teams from across three regions, Europe, North America and the CIS battling out for the top seed towards the the Blast Premier Fall Final : 2021 whereas the fate of the rest would be determined according to their rankings on the Global Leaderboard. A total prize pool of $425,000 USD has been set, with the winners to take away a lion’s share of $225,000 and will have a shot towards a direct qualification. 

Below is the list of the six teams who will get into the contention with the match-ups having already been determined by BLAST.

  • Natus Vincere
  • BIG
  • Heroic
  • FaZe Clan
  • Team Vitality
  • Team Liquid
  • Ninjas In Pyjamas
  • Astralis

Notes

  • Ninjas In Pyjamas are set to debut with Patrick “es3tag” Hansen who recently replaced Linus “LNZ” Holtäng on the active roster following the team’s elimination from the PGL Major Stockholm. 
  • A new look Astralis featuring Kristian “⁠k0nfig⁠” Wienecke and Benjamin “⁠blameF⁠” Bremer will face the Ninjas in their opener post the departure of Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen, Emil “Magisk” Reif and head coach Danny “zonic” Sørensen who have been rumored to join the ranks of Team Vitality. 
  • Amid multiple reports suggesting Team Vitality to shuffle their current roster, it is still unclear whether the French side would field their current lineup or make some last-minute changes.

As said, the matchups have already been revealed and are as follows:

MatchDay & DateTime 
Team Vitality Vs LiquidNovember 2416:30 PM IST
Heroic Vs FaZe ClanNovember 2419:30 PM IST
Na’Vi vs BIG November 2422:30 PM IST
NiP Vs Astralis November 251:30 AM IST

N0tail to take a break from professional play, will mentor the new OG Dota2 Roster

Bharat Kotwani
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N0tail to take a break from professional play, will mentor the new OG Dota2 Roster

The two time Ti champion has decided to step away from the professional scene of Dota 2 after a memorable journey with OG.

Johan “N0tail” Sundstein will be taking a break as a player citing fatigue and would be taking up the role of as a mentor to help the forthcoming iteration of the OG Dota 2 roster. The decision comes after spending nearly more than half a decade laying the roots of OG and anchoring the team to a plethora of championships, most notably at The Manila Major 2016, The Boston Major 2016 followed by a repeat triumph at The International 8 & 9. 

N0tail in a press release stated,

I’m personally taking at least a year off, taking a health break so to speak… For now, all I know is that I need a break. I’m very content, very happy. I’m lucky to have played with the guys I’ve played with for the past two years. I feel fulfilled. But I need a break.

The team’s early exit from the playoffs of the recently concluded The International 10 forced the former back to the drawing board leaving the players to re-evaluate their options moving ahead which saw Martin “Saksa” Sazdov and Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan leave the roster while Sebasitan “Ceb” Debs chose to retire just before this weekend. It all came down to N0tail and Topias Miikka “Topson” Taavitsainen with the latter mid-laner to sit out for the upcoming season, wanting to spend some time with his family and friends.

This will be the first time in the history of OG since 2015 where N0tail won’t be seen playing on the server after featuring in 35 Lans, 9 majors and 5 TIs under the banner of the same. 

Following the departure of all the five players from the active squad, OG Dota 2 now looks to start from a clean state with their current head coach Mikhail “Misha” Agatov rumored to transition as a player within OG while Tommy “Taiga” Le who recently parted ways with Team Liquid is expected to join the new iteration of Dota 2. 

I think it is essential that veteran players work with new players and help them develop. After all, during all these many years we have learned so many things. About Dota, about becoming a good teammate, how it is to be a professional player. That knowledge needs to be shared. We don’t want the next version of OG to be a carbon copy of the current one. But we believe that if we can transfer what we know, and let them add to this, then the ceiling will be much higher, and we can help them get there quicker. Hopefully save them from some of our mistakes 🙂

N0tail continued

How to Watch Valorant Champions “Die For You” Premiere?

Kanishka Thakur
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How to Watch Valorant Champions “Die For You” Premiere?

Valorant Champions 2021 is all set to begin on December 1st, 2021. Sixteen teams battle it out in the first-ever Valorant Championship with the victor gaining the bragging rights to call themselves the best team in the world.

Prior to the tournament commencement, Riot is planning to release its first Valorant esports song. This is being done in an effort to build hype for the tournament. Riot has already posted several cryptic previews for the song named “Die For You” on their social media platforms. 

Here’s everything you need to know about the Valorant Champions song “Die For You”, with details about the release date and where to watch.

Valorant Champions ‘Die for You’ Release Date

Similar to how the League of Legends World Championship is promoted, Die For You is supposed to be a theme song that will be used to promote the first-ever Valorant World Championship.

As per the Riot Game’s teaser posted on the Valorant Champions Tour Twitter on November 21st, Die For You will have its World Premiere on November 22, at 8 AM PT/11 AM ET/5 PM GMT.

Where to Watch Die For You Premiere

Die For You, the theme song for the Valorous Champions, is expected to be distributed on all music streaming platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Make sure to keep an eye on the official Youtube channel for Valorant as well.

For more Valorant content, make sure to check out the new Valorant agent Chamber and its contract rewards.

G2 in Talks With NaVi for mONESY

Mohd Laraib
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G2 in Talks With NaVi for mONESY

According to ‘OverDrive’ from HLTV, G2 esports are considering the signing of 16-year-old AWPer Ilya ‘mONESY’ Osipov. mONESY was signed by NaVi more than 2 years ago and has been part of their academy roster ever since. He has been part of FPL – Faceit Pro League, a hub for pro players and the best players on faceit to play together and has been doing great against players much older and more experienced than him.

Recently, in a report by dexerto and 1pv.fr it was reported that NaVi is open to offers for the Russian. This comes off the back of NaVi’s runner up finish in the second season of WePlay Academy League which took place on LAN. mONESY had an impressive performance there too and said in an interview that he was tier 1. And his stats justify that statement as he has been a cut above everyone else against the oppositions they have played. 

Recently G2 esports players have been teasing about how mONESY is a good player (but was later deleted) and mONESY himself posted a story on instagram saying ‘The time has come’. Shortly after this it was reported that NaVi was considering offers for him.

OverDrive has been an expert about CIS Counter Strike for many a year. He was the first one to break the news that SANJI would eventually leave VP and also about FL1T’s move to VP right before the major.

If the talks succeed we may see mONESY in a G2 esports jersey soon enough. But who he will replace remains to be seen as both JaCkz and AmaNEk have been doing their job well, but mONESY might be the final piece of the puzzle they need to get their hands on a trophy.

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