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PMPL Season 3 2021 Americas Championship: Teams, Format, Stream

PMPL Season 3 2021 Americas Championship is coming close where the top 16 teams from North America, Brazil, and Latam will compete with each other. PMPL Americas is scheduled to held from June 17th to 20th 2021. The teams will compete for a massive prize pool of $150,000 and the champions title.

PMPL AMERICAS FORMAT

PMPL Americas will be a three-day event where top teams from PMPL North America, PMPL Brazil, and PMPL Latam qualified for it. Here is the list of PMPL seedings from which the teams could qualify for the tournament.

  • PMPL Americas 2020 Fall Winner
  • Top 5 teams from PMPL North America
  • Top 5 teams from PMPL Brazil
  • Top 5 teams from PMPL LATAM

Each team will play a total of 18 matches in three days (6 matches each day). The table topper of the overall standings will be the PMPL Americas Champion. For each ‘Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ teams will be awarded $500 and the MVP of the tournament will get $6,000 as a reward.

PMPL AMERICAS TEAMS

This is the third season of the PMPL Americas Championship that will feature a total of 16 teams. One team invite was provided to the winners of PMPL Americas 2020 Fall. Though LOOPS Esports were the champions of the season, the invite went to The Unnamed as the former team got disbanded. Here is the list of teams who will be participating in the event.

  • The Unnamed (Invited) (Winners of PMPL 2020)

PMPL NORTH AMERICA

  1. Ghost Gaming
  2. Knights
  3. 19 Esports
  4. PassionFruit
  5. Lazarus

PMPL BRAZIL

  1. A7 Esports
  2. B4 Esports
  3. Irmãos Esports
  4. Influence Rage
  5. INTZ

PMPL LATAM

  1. Team Queso
  2. Furious Gaming
  3. Estorm Gaming
  4. Isurus Gaming
  5. Boca Juniors

PMPL AMERICAS STREAM

PMPL Season 3 2021 Americas Championship will be streamed live on the official YouTube channel of PUBG Mobile Esports. Here is the link to the streams, where you can watch your favorite teams compete to emerge as the champions.

How to get Bullseye Medal in COD Mobile?

Call of Duty Mobile has been one of the most popular games in recent times and is played around the world by millions of players. The game consists of 2 different modes, naming battle royal mode and a multiplayer deathmatch mode. The battle royal mode consists of a lobby of 100 players and each of them battles against each other to carry out the victory.

Recently, COD Mobile has added several medals during the last two seasons and Bullseye Medal is one of them. Keep reading this article to know how to get Bullseye Medal in COD Mobile.

What is Bullseye Medal?

The Bullseye medal is given to those players who kill with the Hunter Killer Drone in multiplayer mode. However, you have to remember that you can only get the medal in the multiplayer mode.

How to get Bullseye Medal?

  • Play 3 matches (any mode).
  • The Operator skills should be used 4 times in multiplayer matches.
  • Achieve the Avenger Medal in multiplayer 10 times.
  • Once you are done, you have to kill an enemy with the Hunter Killer Drone in multiplayer mode.

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Free Fire Redeem Codes for 9 June 2021

Garena revealed new redeem codes for Free Fire players. Players can use this code to get numerous in-game items. You can simply follow the steps given below to redeem the code and get rewards for free.

Most of the items in Free Fire could be unlocked through diamonds but the only way to get them is by purchasing them with real money. Those who do not wish to spend their money on skins or other items can simply use such redeem codes to try and get these items for free.

Free Fire reveals such redeem codes frequently and they are distributed via their social media handles. These codes have a short validity and hence, players need to be quick while redeeming such codes.

Redeem Codes

  • FFGBASERBNKO
  • MJKOASDRMKOU
  • PLHARUOIBGFD
  • OPUY68VFASDF
  • ZSDFRUYOQWPO
  • MHOKQWRTPOUY
  • ADQWMNLPYTE5
  • ZCFGPOUYRT6U
  • NKPOQWREYHGF
  • DFGYPUOY6BNK
  • NGFDAWRTQWPO
  • MNHGTRQWRASW
  • BNHGTYRWQOPO

How to redeem the codes?

If you don’t know how to redeem codes in Free Fire, follow these simple steps to recieve the rewards:

  • Visit the Reward Redemption center of Garena Free Fire. Click here to visit.
  • Log in with your Free Fire account. One must have either Facebook or Google ID signed in as a Guest account does not work.
  • Enter the code in the box to unlock the rewards.
  • You will receive the items in your in-game mailbox.

This code is only valid for a single day so make sure to get the items before time runs out. Remember that it is only redeemable for players belonging to the ID server and hence, others may get a pop-up error if they try to redeem this code.

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Free Fire Free Skins Website Freeskins.in: Is It Safe?

Garena Free Fire is one of the top names when it comes to the Indian Mobile gaming community. The in-game currency of Free Fire is known as Diamonds. The game has a lot of in-game items and skins that players love to buy using Diamonds. However, not all players can afford to buy Diamonds using real-life money and as a result, they try to find Diamond hacks to get those items for free.

Is it safe to use Freeskins.in?

There are a lot of third-party softwares and websites that claim to provide Diamonds for free. All these tools are fake and they just earn money for themselves just by showing advertisements without giving you anything at all.

After filling up all the details on any of those websites, they will show you that that they are generating Diamonds for you. After that, they will ask you for human verification. That’s the trap! They will show it again and again along with fishy advertisements even if you verify yourself correctly.

Therefore, never go for this type of free stuff. If you really want to buy Diamonds, go to the game and buy them from the in-game store. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

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Valorant Patch 2.11 Improves Framerates For Medium-High Spec Machines

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The last Valorant patch before the much-anticipated Episode 3 of the tactical shooter by Riot is here, and while it’s not that big of a patch as many fans expected, it aims to bring some much-needed performance improvements and bug fixes to the title.

For starters, the Replication game mode has made a return to Valorant and it has replaced Escalation for the time being.

Other than that, several optimizations has been made to the abilities, equipment, and weapons to increase the Client framerate by 1% on average for medium-high spec computers.

Also, a new search bar has been added to the leaderboard that will enable players to search by name.

You can read the full list of changes in Riot Games’ official blog post here.

The developers have termed this update as ‘the quiet before the Episode 3 storm,’ so players can expect some big changes coming soon as a part of the next update.

COMPETITIVE UPDATES

  • Added a Leaderboard search bar to help you find players by name

MODES UPDATES

  • Replication is back as part of our modes rotation and will replace Escalation for now

PERFORMANCE UPDATES

  • Improved Client framerate by 1% on average for medium to high spec machines by optimizing abilities, equipment, and weapons in the your inventory
  • Optimized Agent and Environment mesh clipping calculations 

GAME SYSTEM UPDATES

  • Fixed fonts for various regional languages to improve readability
  • Updated ping wheel and radio wheel to ignore non-movement inputs while the wheel is displayed
  • Fixed an animation issue with abnormal hand positions while equipping weapons

BUGS

AGENTS

  • Fixed an issue where Reyna couldn’t sell then rebuy Dismiss ability during Buy Phase

COMPETITIVE

  • Fixed a bug that was causing an infinite load symbol while viewing a friend’s career.
  • Fixed several Leaderboard UI bugs.

KNOWN ISSUES

  • In the model viewer, a hitch is caused by the Sharpening setting interacting with MSAA
    • If you encounter this, we advise that you toggle off the Sharpening setting until we can ship a fix.

ESPL, India’s first-ever franchise-based Esports league signs Infinix Mobile as title sponsor

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India’s first-ever franchise-based Esports league, the Esports Premier League (ESPL) has partnered with smartphone maker Infinix Mobile as the title sponsor for its inaugural edition with an aim to revolutionize the Esports in the country and bring its excitement to the mainstream through the nationwide tournament.

The tournament wants to tap into the growing landscape of esports in the country to help the competitive gaming community. This segment has received a significant boost in the last year as an increasing number of users are spending time on smartphones for gaming.

Aiming to give Esports ecosystem in India a complete makeover and rise Esports and gaming in the Indian market with the upcoming top-notch event, India Today Group, which has forayed into esports, is geared up to roll out Season 1 of the league from June 16. The league will witness a massive total prize pool worth Rs 25 lakhs.

It has teamed up with Garena to create an exclusive gaming platform for Free Fire—the most popular battle royale game currently played by gamers and gaming enthusiasts in India. ESPL will enable players from across the country to showcase their skills on this mega national stage for the first time. 

The league will be streamed on multiple platforms including OTT giant Disney+ Hotstar as well as the official YouTube and Facebook channels of India Today and Aaj Tak along with their websites.

ESPL intends to be the largest platform to discover and nurture new gaming talent across India. As part of the effort to push gaming to the mainstream, ESPL will offer all the 8 teams and their players’ comprehensive media coverage across various media platforms including digital, print, TV, and more. This will help upcoming esports professionals gain fame and stardom on par with other conventional sports.

While talking about the launch of Esports Premier League (ESPL) and its association with Infinix Mobile, India Today Group Vice Chairperson, Kalli Purie said: “This pandemic and the resultant lockdown have contributed to propelling the esports industry into mainstream entertainment. India Today’s Gaming and Esports platform will provide a thrilling experience to its users through a wide range of games, online tournaments, and an opportunity to win exciting prizes. These are very exciting times as smartphone usage continue to grow exponentially and I believe the partnership with Infinix Mobile will help us intensify our mission of taking Esports to the next level in India.” 

With the pandemic and lockdown still in place, ESPL will be played as a virtual tournament in its inaugural edition and comprise of more than 700 online matches with about 300 plus hours of streaming. The Hong Kong-based smartphone giant, Infinix Mobile is keen on pushing the envelope when it comes to the latest and greatest in technology with its upcoming, Note 10 line-up of devices.  

“The Indian online gaming industry is growing at a rate of almost 27% per annum and is estimated to reach $2.8B by 2022. The current pandemic situation has further fuelled the growth of the gaming industry in India. At Infinix, we are part of this revolution by making devices for the mid-range segment that is feature-rich and enhance the users gaming experience, to further amplify the gaming capability of a user our R&D has developed a technology called Darlink which optimizes and improves the performance of a device on several parameters. Our partnership with India Today for the Esports Premier League is just another step towards achieving the same goal. We look forward to a fruitful association and intend to encourage budding talent in this field,” Mr. Anish Kapoor, CEO of Infinix Mobile said while announcing the association.

The tournament, which will be played over a period of two and a half months, will have initial two levels to screen the best eight teams which progress into the grand finale representing eight cities across the country including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Punjab, and Rajasthan.

Valorant Origin Skin Bundle Leaked: Photos Inside

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With the highly anticipated Episode 3 release just around the corner, Riot Games’ competitive shooter Valorant is expected to receive a plethora of new content. Other than a new agent and some game-changing updates, it seems like players will also be receiving an all-new skin bundle.

Valorant data miners have managed to dig up game files and have leaked the upcoming ‘Origin’ skin bundle that contains weapon skins for a total of 5 guns.

Featuring a black and neon green finish, the Origin skin bundle has certainly caught the attention of many avid Valorant fans who are looking forward to purchasing the bundle at the time of its release.

The bundle will feature weapon skins for the following skins:

  • Melee
  • Frenzy
  • Vandal
  • Bucky
  • Operator

Valorant Origin Release Date

The Origin skin bundle is expected to hit the Valorant store at the time of the Episode 3 update. However, since the bundle hasn’t been officially revealed by Riot, we don’t have an exact release date as of yet.

Valorant Origin Bundle Price

Fans are speculating for the Origin bundle to be priced at around 6,000 VP. However, once again, no price has been officially set by Riot.

The Episode 3 update will hit the live servers around the third week of June.

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Twitch suffers a mega outage with NYTimes, CNN

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Many popular websites serving millions of users every hour are down in some parts of the world due to an ongoing outage. While the reason for the internet outage remains unclear, it’s likely an issue with CDN company Fastly.

By the looks of the reports online, people in UK and regions close to the UK are experiencing the error 503 messages when they try to log in or view the affected sites.

Previously it was suspected that a targeted attack was launched on Amazon and its subsidiaries including Twitch, but soon after reports of users getting error 503 messages across other sites such as Reddit, eBay, Spotify, etc also started coming in. 

Independent website Down Detector initially received thousands of reports that Twitch wasn’t working.

The outage tracker monitors social mentions around certain topics to detect when services go down across the world. The Down Detector outage map shows that the Twitch issues are affecting users in the UK and Europe.

Twitch was quick to acknowledge the issue and tweeted out saying: 

“We are aware that users may be experiencing errors accessing Twitch at this time. Our team is currently investigating to fix this issue.”

The websites which suffered the outages are high traffic with a cumulative reach of over 4 billion a month.

  • AFR
  • Age
  • Amazon
  • AWS
  • Boots
  • BuzzFeed
  • CNN
  • Deliveroo
  • Etsy
  • eBay
  • Financial Times
  • Giphy
  • IGN
  • Imgur
  • Independent
  • Kickstarter
  • Le Monde
  • New York Times
  • Paypal
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • Shopify
  • SMH
  • Spotify
  • The Guardian
  • Twitch
  • Twitter
  • UK Government Sites

It also seems like Twitter and more services related to Fastly CDN and Amazon’s AWS are experiencing these issues. 

In a tweet Fastly said: ‘We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.’ 

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake will not be shown during this year’s Ubisoft Forward

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The Prince of Persia series has been neglected for Ubisoft’s biggest moneymakers; Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, which has led to the franchise being stagnant for far too long, and the last game in the mainline series, The Forgotten Sands, released in 2010, which was over a decade ago.

Last year’s Ubisoft Forward gave us the first look at Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, which opened to mostly negative reception from fans of the series and newcomers alike due to its disappointing graphics, even for a remake. This backlash led to the game being delayed to March 18 2021 from its original January 21 2021 release date, followed by an indefinite delay a month before its supposed release. 

Unfortunately for those of you who were looking forward to an update on the Remake during this year’s Ubisoft Forward, the official Prince of Persia Twitter posted an update regarding their current situation, stating that they “are not yet ready to share any additional information just yet” and as a result, the game will not be shown off during Ubisoft Forward.

The original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was the first game in a reimagined trilogy of the series and the game introduced the infamous Sands of Time, an essence that allowed its wielder to manipulate time itself. The game was released for PS2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Gameboy Advance, and PC and was a massive hit.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake is being developed for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. 

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Free Fire OB28 Maintenance: When will Free Fire Open Today?

As we covered in our previous article, Garena Free Free has announced the next in-game update. Free Fire OB28 will the next update after two months. The new update is scheduled to release tomorrow, 8th June 2021. A completely new rank ‘Grandmaster’ is introduced in Clash Squad mode. Few weapons balances are also done within the game. A new character will be added to the game. Besides this, three major characters have been balanced. To know the complete details of the OB28 patch notes, read our article.

To role out the new update in the game. Developers close the game servers for a limited time. Garena Free Fire announced on its official social media pages about the scheduled maintenance time. Read the complete article to know the exact time at which you will not be able to play the game.

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The official post stated, ” Attention survivors! We will be having our game maintenance tomorrow.?⚙ You know what that means – new features are coming! Please be noted that the game will close from 9:30 am-6:00 pm (IST) – during this time, you will not be able to enter the game. ❌ However, you will be able to play normally once you update after the game opens!Thank you for your patience and understanding. ?#FreeFire#IndiaKaBattleRoyale#Booyah 

As we all know, such big updates take a longer time to be implemented in the game. So, it will be an 8 hours 30 mins update tomorrow. The schedule for the maintenance is as follows:

  • Start time: June 8th, 2021, at 9:30 AM IST (GMT +5:30)
  • End time: June 8th, 2021, at 6:00 PM IST (GMT +5:30)

According to the announcement, players would not be able to enter the game for the specified time as mentioned above. However, as soon as the maintenance goes down, you need to update the game. Once updated, you can enjoy the game with new features.