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PMPL Arabia 2021 Week 1 Super Weekend: Teams, Format, Stream

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PMPL Arabia 2021 Week 1 Super Weekend: Teams, Format, Stream

PMPL Arabia 2021 Regular Season week 1 ended with NASR Esports leading the tables with a total of 120 points. The team also managed to get the highest number of kills (63) among all the teams. Stage 2 of week 1 is set to take place from 20th – 22nd May 2021. The top 16 teams from the weekday’s leaderboard will compete in the upcoming super weekend.

The four-week-long PMPL event will be held in two-phase – League Stage and Finals. While league stage will act as a qualifying round for the finals whereas the finals will act as seeding for the EMEA Championship which is scheduled to be held in June.

FORMAT

As stated earlier, PMPL Arabia Regular Season is divided into two stage – Weekdays and Supper Weekend.

Weekday saw each team play a total of matches 8 a week, every Tuesday & Wednesday (each day 4 matches). Out of which, the top 16 teams qualified for the Super Weekend. The Super weekend stage will be played in a single lobby format. The teams will play a total of 15 matches in a week, every Thursday, Friday & Saturday (each day 5 matches). Only the points of each Super Weekend are cumulated towards league standings. Which will be used to qualify for the PMPL finals.

TEAMS

  • NASR Esports
  • YaLLa Esports
  • SCYTES Esports
  • Road To Glory Esports
  • Zombies Esports
  • GUNZ ESPORT
  • RAAD Esports
  • Rico Infinity Team
  • Sudor Esports
  • ALPHA Legends
  • Falcons Esports
  • ARAB GSG
  • Real Tiger9
  • HOTLINE Esports
  • Flare Loyal Team
  • iKURD E-SPORTS

Galaxy Racers could not qualify for week 1 Super Weekend

The first week of the regular season didn’t go as planned for Galaxy Racers. The team ended up at the 19th spot and couldn’t qualify for the super weekend. The squad displayed decent performance on day 1 of the season but ended up with only 5 points on day2.

Thus, gaining only 35 points in total. Along with Galaxy Racer, Fanatic Zombies, Fate Esports, and the Snipers were also ruled out of week 1 super weekend. With just two more weeks left for these teams to qualify for the super weekend. The journey to the top 5 teams in the leaderboard looks difficult for them.

LIVE STREAM

PMPL Arabia week 1 Super weekend will be streamed live on YouTube and Facebook. Here is the link to the streams, where you can watch the top 16 teams competing with each other.

SCHEDULE

Here is the schdule of the matches, alongwith the maps to be played by the teams.

  • Day 1 – 20th May, Thursday
  • Day 2 – 21st May, Friday
  • Day 3 – 22nd May, Saturday

Maps to be played each day in the same order (5 matches)

  • Erangel
  • Miramar
  • Sanhok
  • Miramar
  • Erangel

How to get Escape from Tarkov Twitch Drops?

Prateek Jain
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How to get Escape from Tarkov Twitch Drops?

Escape from Tarkov is back again on the Twitch Rivals showdown event and to celebrate the inclusion of the game, developer Battlestate Games is hosting a new round of Escape from Tarkov Twitch Drops.

During the Twitch Rivals event, viewers will have a chance to get exclusive Escape from Tarkov Twitch Rivals in-game items. Each Drop will only be available to claim for 7 days, so don’t forget to collect them in-game.

How to get Escape from Tarkov Twitch Drops?

To earn drops during the Twitch Rivals event NA Showdown or EU showdown, all you need to do is watch and have an active copy of the game with your Twitch account linked to your game profile. 

The tournament will be broadcasted live on the official Battlestate Games for the Russian audience and the official Twitch Rivals channel for the English audience.  Plus, all the participants will have Drops enabled on their Twitch channels, so you can watch channels streaming in the language of your choice and earn drops at the same time. 

The Twitch Rivals international event for European contestants starts on May 11th, 2021, while for the North American contestants the event starts on May 18th, 2021. This time the event will be held in 2 stages on private servers, with 24 teams consisting of 3 players each. The overall prize pool is $30000 for each European and North American event. 

How to link Twitch account to Escape from Tarkov profile?

To get drops you need to link your Twitch account with your Escape from Tarkov game profile. In order to do that you only need an active copy of the game. 

  • Visit the official Escape from Tarkov site and log in to your game profile.  
  • Once logged in, you will see your game profile. 
  • Now, look out for the “Link Twitch Account” button on the right-hand side of the screen and click on it.
  • A new tab will open now where you will be asked to log in to your Twitch account and link your Twitch profile with Escape from Tarkov. 
  • Click “Authorize” and done! Now your Twitch account is linked with your game profile.
  • Watch “Drops Enabled” streams on Twitch during the Twitch Rivals event and earn in-game rewards. 

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Twitch suspends ads on Amouranth’s channel

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Twitch suspends ads on Amouranth’s channel

One of the founders of the “hot tub” meta Kaitlyn Siragusa aka Amouranth has warned “hot tub” streamers across Twitch that their ability to earn off advertisements may get suspended as hers did.

Twitch was in hot water ever since people started abusing the ToS to turn hot tub stream into something of a meta. The Amazon-owned streaming platform claimed that they were closing monitoring the situation and it is not until now that concrete action has been taken against any of the streamers.

The first streamer to suffer was Amouranth, arguably the biggest abuser of the grey area and a big name for Twitch to penalize in a way that doesn’t take the users off their platform. A pragmatically executed move to demotivate anyone from streaming similar content through cutting off a major part of their revenue stream.

“content that is deemed “not advertiser-friendly”, something that there is no communicated guideline for. This leaves open-ended the question of where the line is drawn. Many people complain about ToS being “unclear” but at least,” said Amouranth.

She also claimed that Twitch did not warn her about any violation of terms beforehand and Siragusa had to be the one initiating the conversation with Twitch Support in order to get a clearer picture. Though the reason behind her channel may be something completely unrelated to her “hot tub” streams as Twitch failed to specify but it doesn’t take a genius to address the elephant in the room.

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NiP beat Anonymo in controversial flashpoint rematch

Kanishka Thakur
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NiP beat Anonymo in controversial flashpoint rematch

The round of 16 of Flashpoint 3 started with NIP defeating Anonymo 2-1 in a best of 3 matchups. The match was Nicolai ‘device’ Reedtz debut match for his team and he led his team to their first win in this tournament as well.

The map veto started with NIP removing Vertigo and Anonymo banning Dust2. The first map was picked up by NIP which was Overpass and Anonymo picked up Nuke. The last map left to be played was Mirage.

The first map started with Anonymo winning a clean pistol round by successfully getting a retake on the B site with the help of  Paweł ‘innocent’ Mocek’s 4 USP kills. Although they could not enjoy the lead for a long time as NIP replied back quickly by winning the next round and then they went on to win the half 12-3 in their favor. 

Device started with 4 USP headshot kills in the second half pistol round and then it was quite easy for NIP to close out the map 16-3 in their favor.

The second map was Nuke and with NIP starting on the CT side of the map they had the half under control with ‘device’ connecting some incredible shots and showing he still had his consistency with him. The first half ended 9-6 in their favor.

The second half saw some incredible plays coming out from Kacper ‘Kylar‘ Walukiewicz and he helped his team get back on the scoreboard and make a comeback in the second half and win the map 16-13.

The final map was Mirage and both the teams were battling head to head against each other and the rounds went back and forth. The half ended with NIP slightly edging over Anonymo 8-7. 

The second half started with Janusz ‘Snax’ Pogorzelski getting an Ace in the pistol round and making things difficult for NIP. The momentum changed when ‘REZ’ was able to get some very important rounds for his team and then finish the map 16-14 and the series 2-1.

The win seemed like a good debut for ‘device’ and the bootcamp looked quite happy after the game. 

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PMPL Arabia 2021 Week 1 Day 2: Match Recap, Overall Standings, Results

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PMPL Arabia 2021 Week 1 Day 2: Match Recap, Overall Standings, Results

The second day of week 1 PMPL Arabia 2021 ended with NASR Esports finishing at the top spot in the leaderboards.

The team got a total of 120 points including the 63 kills. NASR Esports was the highest number of kill dealers among all the teams and was the only team to take two chicken dinners out of 8 matches.

Yalla Esports secured the second spot with 77 points followed by Team SCYTES with 77 points.

Also Read | PMPL Arabia 2021 Week 1 Day 1 Recap

PMPL Arabia 2021 Season 1: Week 1 Day 1 Match Wise Summary

MATCH 1

The first match of the week 1 day 2 regular season was played on the Miramar map. NASR Esports was the first team to get eliminated at the hands of Flare Royal Team.

Fanatic Zombies got their first chicken dinner of the regular season with 7 kills. Team RA’AD got the second position with 9 kills followed by Flare Royal Team with 10 kills.

Galaxy Racers couldn’t do much in this match and got eliminated at the 12th spot.

MATCH 2

The second match of the day had a centralized zone, which gave each team an equal chance to make their way through the next circle.

The last circle had a 1v2 fight between Hotline Esports and iKURD Esports, where Thanos from Hotline Esports got eliminated due to the blue zone.

Thus, the chicken dinner went to iKURD Esports with 5 kills. Both the final circle teams got a total of 20 points followed by SCYTES will 16 points.

MATCH 3

Yalla Esports emerged as the winners of match 3 which was played in Miramar. The team got a total of 22 points including 7 kill points.

The first circle of the game was formed towards the northern side of the map, while the last circle was formed below water treatment. SUDOR Esports finished at the second spot on the leaderboards with 17 points.

Though, the team got eliminated at the third spot in the game. The third time in a row, Galaxy Racers could not perform well and got eliminated at 13th place. Thus, making their way difficult to reach the Super Weekend stage.

MATCH 4

As this was the last match of the day for group A teams. Each team was trying hard to get their spot for the week 1 super weekend stage.

Falcons Esports was the first team to get eliminated by Rico Infinity Team. Arab GSG won their first chicken dinner of the season with 24 points followed by NASR Esports with 11 kills.

Galaxy Racers got eliminated at the 13th position and managed to get only 1 kill. With no more matches left for the team to play, the squad could not qualify for the Super Weekend.

MATCH 5

The last match of the week 1 league stage was played in Miramar between groups B,C,D,E. We saw a southern zone formation in the initial minutes of the game. Team SCYTES was the first team to get eliminated in the 16th position with 2 kills. NASR Esports got the second chicken dinner of the league stage with massive 14 kills. Alpha legends secured the second spot in the leaderboard with a total of 17 points.

PMPL Arabia Season 1: Week 1 Day 2 Overall Standings

  • NASR Esports – 120   Points
  • YaLLa Esports  – 77 Points
  • SCYTES Esports  – 77 Points
  • Road To Glory Esports –  77 Points
  • Zombies Esports – 71 Points
  • GUNZ ESPORT – 70  Points
  • RAAD Esports – 67  Points
  • Rico Infinity Team – 63 Points
  • Sudor Esports – 62  Points
  • ALPHA Legends – 59 Points
  • Falcons Esports – 58 Points
  • ARAB GSG –  56  Points
  • Real Tiger9 – 55 Points
  • HOTLINE Esports – 50 Points
  • Flare Loyal Team – 49 Points
  • iKURD E-SPORTS – 47 Points
  • Fanatic Zombies –  45 Points
  • FATE Esports – 39 Points
  • Galaxy Racer Esports –  35 Points
  • The Snipers – 13 Points

Fanatic zombies, FATE Esports, Galaxy Racers, and The Snipers could not qualify for the Super weekend which is scheduled to start from 20th May to 22nd May 2021. Only points of each Super Weekend are cumulated towards league standings

Genshin Impact improves security with two factor authentication

Bharat Kotwani
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Genshin Impact improves security with two factor authentication

Game Developer miHoYo has finally implemented the Two-factor authentication (2FA) on Genshin Impact.

In the last couple of years, there have been a plethora of cases where players have reportedly lost their gaming accounts across Steam, Blizzard, and various other platforms.

Back in November 2020, a similar mishap within MiHoYo where multiple contact details, those of players were compromised by a security breach. This was indeed followed by yet another data leak later in December, endangering the fate of their Email IDs. 

Soon, the issue was reported by the player base and too by a plethora of content creators where some of them were unable to retrieve back their accounts despite the fact of already having made some expensive in-game purchases. These issues have finally been addressed by miHoYo and a security fix has been deployed in the game.

Players enabling 2FA must have access to the Email Address associated with their Genshin Impact account. 

Upon logging in from a new device, the game will now prompt the players to enter a code, which would be sent to their credentials once a login request is made. This layer of protection will be made as a default way to sign in once the update is shipped into the game by miHoYo. 

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Sony Likely to Introduce its Own Esports Betting Site

Bhavya Shah
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Sony Likely to Introduce its Own Esports Betting Site

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has registered a patent for a betting platform on May 13, 2021, according to a report by Vida Extra. Filed by Michael Chow, the patent for an esports betting platform will likely provide several probabilities surrounding the bet. Mr. Chow is a machine learning engineer for PlayStation.

The Japanese multinational conglomerate has been advancing into the esports industry by acquiring Evolution Championship Series (EVO) in March 2021 earlier this year. The registration of the patent marks yet another manoeuvre in the esports industry.

“Odds for various propositions concerning the play of a computer simulation are determined and presented to a viewer for pecuniary or non-pecuniary wagering purposes. The odds may be determined using past game analytics, or may be determined parimutuelly,” read an abstract from the registered patent.

The platform will likely host pecuniary as well as non-pecuniary bets. In simple terms, the platform will allow users to place bets with real money as well as virtual in-game items. Several games like DotA 2, CS:GO and TF2 have in-game items which are eligible across betting platforms.

The report further argued that filing a parent needn’t necessarily implicate that the company is bound to develop a betting platform. If they do so, the critics will, of course, disapprove of their actions. 

Esports and betting haven’t gone along well. The esports betting industry, alongside the gambling industry, has been a cause of several controversies in the past. Many states have proposed various legislations to oversee loot boxes or crates.

Genshin Impact finally gets two-factor authorization

Mohammed Sadiq
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Hacking issues and security concerns were rampant amongst the Genshin community as many players reportedly lost their accounts on which they had spent real money, and as a result, two-factor authorization was one of the most requested features in the game. 

On May 17, MiHiYo finally released an update that enables two-factor authorization across all user accounts. The new security measure is fairly simple as a verification code will be sent to the user’s email or phone via text when they log in, provided their accounts have already been linked in the past.

This ensures that the account’s owner is the one who has logged in and not an unauthorized person. Players who haven’t linked their accounts to their mobile phone number or email should do so immediately to increase their account’s security, as advised by MiHiYo.

 Simply go to Genshin’s official website and then account management to link your mobile phone number and email to your account. Players can rest easy with this update as two-factor will greatly reduce any chances of their account being compromised. 

This update was released just in time for Genshin’s Eula banner as players can grind for the 5-star Claymore user without any worries regarding their accounts.

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Valorant Fan Creates Prime Operator

Kanishka Thakur
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Valorant Fan Creates Prime Operator

Valorant has been a very popular game since its launch and Riot have tried to make changes in the game on a very regular basis including the addition of skins. 

Recently, one of the players designed a custom Prime skin set for the Operator that includes the collection’s iconic design and color schemes. The Prime collection is one of the most popular skins in the game which includes skins for the Classic, Guardian, Spectre, Vandal, and a unique ax melee skin. 

The Prime 2.0 skin collection introduced the iconic designs to the Bucky, Frenzy, Odin, and Phantom. It also included a new unique melee weapon. 

Both of the collections did not include an Operator skin so one of the fans made a custom skin that also included the color scheme of gold and black and posted it on Reddit which received 10.8k upvotes. 

I made the Prime Operator with reload animations and variants
by u/Hyperninja16 in VALORANT

Many of the players liked the design and expressed how they wish it were available in the game. Riot Games has not considered fan-made weapon designs yet and it is quite unlikely that this exact Operator skin will make it into the game. 

Although the popularity of this skin and the fans might eventually convince Riot to bring this Operator skin into the game. 

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YADINHO: All you need to know about this trending hashtag

Bhavya Shah
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YADINHO: All you need to know about this trending hashtag

There’s this hashtag trending on social media since the last couple of days. Users across the world are pondering over #YADINHO. Several prominent social media handles across industries are tweeting about #YADINHO. There are esports organizations, Neymar, football clubs, OTT streaming platform and many others in Brazil tweeting with this hashtag.

Cut to the chase, #YADINHO is a fusion of Yayahuz and Lindinho. The former is a variety streamer while the latter usually streams Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Seperated by borders amid the pandemic, the lovebirds hadn’t seen each other since quite some time. 

Both are Brazilians but Yayahuz had been in Paraguay lately. They had earlier established a crowdfunding campaign as well to get her back to Brazil. To the fans’ astonishment, she returned back to Brazil on May 13 and appeared live on Lindinho’s Twitch livestream.

Yayahuz was at first playing ukulele and later kissed Lindinho. This very moment took the whole internet by storm. #YADINHO began spreading like wildfire to honour their unwavering spirit of adoration. Twitch community has had several light-hearted moment. The wholesome community is nothing short of a virtual family.

Let’s glance over several popular tweets with hashtag #YADINHO :-

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