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BIG wins the Gamers Without Borders charity tournament and earning $600,000 in the course. The winning prize will be donated to International Medical Corps, as the choice of NGO of BIG. The second spot with $300,000 earned by FURIA, will be donated to UNICEF.

Gamers Without Borders, a charity based esports tournament organized by Saudi Ministry of Sport have just concluded their second season. The 2021 event featured $1.5mn in prize pool distributed across eight spots, each team having a chance to decide the choice of NGO they wish to donate.

The format of GWB featured a standard group stage double-elimination best-of-three matches where four teams advanced to the play-offs as BIG, FURIA, ENCE & mousesports as respective standings. NiP, FaZe, collectively shared $100,000 each and the 5th-6th spot, where mibr & Dignitas settled with $50,000 each and the 7th-8th positions to end the event.

A show-match was a part of the event as well where french roster Vitality played against regional team 01 Esports.

Last year too, the event came up with a charity tournament where top CS:GO teams battled it out for $2mn pool.

In recent social media announcements, PUBG Mobile has permanently banned over 3.8 million accounts in about 7 days. They shared a complete anti-cheating report displaying the different tiers of players that were banned for cheating/hacking from June 18th to 24th, 2021. The players whose accounts got banned will not be able to access the game. The main reasons for the ban were: Modification of Character Model, Other hacks, and Speed hacks/X-Ray vision.

The maximum number of bans came from the crown tier whereas the least was seen in the conqueror tier. The officials also shared the types of hack that were used by the players that led to their accounts ban. The most percentage of these players were found using modification of the character model.

According to the latest anti-cheat report that has the data from June 18th to 24th, PUBG Mobile banned a total of 3,884,690 accounts from accessing the game.

The numbers have massively increased as compared to last week’s anti-cheating report. PUBG Mobile is one of the leading battle royale mobile games developed by Tencent Games. The developers believe in fairplay game, thus work strictly on banning the players found cheating or hacking.

With each game developed, we always see hackers and cheaters which spoils the nature of the game. PUBG Mobile has a no-cheat policy and introduced the Ban Pan anti-cheat system late in 2019 where it has banned the use of any third-party hacks.

On the recent anti-cheat post, the officials shared the tier distribution that was banned by the team. Below is the list of banned accounts.

• Bronze – 12%
• Silver – 5%
• Gold – 5%
• Platinum – 11%
• Diamond – 23%
• Crown – 28%
• Ace – 15%
• Conqueror – 1%

The official also disclosed the type of hacks that were used by these players. The majority of them were caught doing modification of character model (67%), X-ray vision hack was used by 8% of the banned players, 12% used auto aim hacks while 2% did modification in the area of damage. Speed hacks were being used by 8 percent of these accounts, and 3% were using other types of hacks.

Presently, PUBG Mobile has banned millions of accounts from using unethical means such as hacking or cheating. The team will keep doing in the coming future to maintain fairness in the game.

The highly anticipated Episode 3 of Riot’s tactical shooter has recently arrived to the title, and it has brought alongside it a plethora of new content that players are enjoying. However, some of these new changes are proving to be rather unpleasant for the Valorant community. 

After a game-breaking bug involving NVIDIA Freestyle filters was discovered after the Episode 3 release, Riot Games decided to temporarily disable the function till the issue was fixed. Till then, players will be unable to change the game’s appearance using external programs. 

For the unaware, NVIDIA users can use NVIDIA Freestyle to set various filters and change their game’s appearance settings including features like its contrast and brightness to customize the game’s visuals according to their will.

Problems began to arise when it was discovered that the HUD removal feature of NVIDIA could lead to the game-breaking bug where players would be completely unaffected by flashes in-game. 

Many players were beginning to use this as an anti-flash exploit when Riot decided to temporarily disable the software till the issue is solved. 

As of now, it’s still unclear when will NVIDIA users be able to use this feature again, or what steps will Riot take to tackle the bug.

Swedish Sports Federation has refused to recognize esports as an ‘elite sport,’ forcing Valve to host The International 2021 somewhere else in Europe. The International is a multi-million DotA 2 franchise that is among the largest publisher-backed esports events in the world.

In a statement revealed by Valve on its blog, Sweden voted against categorizing esports as an official sport. This means, the event would not be allowed to happen under the current circumstances, when the pandemic and lockdown restrictions have barred larger gatherings.

The statement read: “With the Minister of the Interior failing to recognize The International as an elite sporting event, anyone attempting to procure a visa for travel into Sweden for TI10 (including players, talent, and staff) would be denied,” which is essential for the event.

The International 2021 is a global event where participants from across continents participate. The government denying recognition would most certainly disallow applications of foreigners into the country for a competition not considered as an ‘elite’ sport.