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VCT Challengers 2 North America Recap

Bharat Kotwani
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VCT Challengers 2 North America Recap

Four teams from North America have been determined for the upcoming VCT’s Challengers Finals event. Along with the qualifications, they have also been seeded accordingly from the fixtures they played all over the weekend. The Challengers Final iteration is scheduled to be played from April 30 – May 2.

The list of the teams that made through the Challengers 2 is as follows:

  • Sentinels
  • Cloud9 Blue
  • NRG
  • Andbox

(The above teams have sequenced as per their seedings)

Throughout the recently concluded event, we saw 8 teams lock horns in the Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals with the losers going down to the Lower Bracket rounds. Among the UBQF teams, Cloud9 Blue were able to maintain a flawless run over T1, Andbox, and NRG despite the roster changes they underwent which saw Skyler “Relyks” Weaver stepping down from the roster, eventually getting replaced by Ricky “floppy” Kemery who recently made the switch from Cloud9’s inactive CSGO roster to their Valorant division. Also, Andbox were able to upset Stage 1 Master Champions Sentinels, who later beat the former in the Lower bracket round 3 but former C9B member Daniel “Vice” Kim and his men were able to book themselves a berth at the Challengers finals event.

Grand Finals summary

In the Grand Finale, Sentinels faced off Cloud Blue in a Best of 5 affairs where the latter team looked destitute and listless as Tyson “TenZ” Ngo (who has been on loan at Sentinels) and his side was able to seal the 3-0 whitewash after forcing overtime on the final map Split.

  • Match: Cloud9 Blue Vs Sentinels
  • Prize Money: Winner takes away $20,000 USD
  • Format: Best of 5

The match-up started with Sentinels breeze past C9 on their own map, picking Bind, 13-4 after a strong first half on their attack. The action continued on Haven where both the sides were tied 6-6 at the switch but the Mitch “mitch” Semago led side couldn’t maintain their rhythm as Sentinels went on to clinch their map pick 13-6. It all came down to a do-or-die situation for C9 on Split where the latter looked strong for the first time in the series, going up 8-4 on their defense but were unable to defy the wrath of the defending champions.

Map pick data

  • Bind (Picked by Cloud9, Won by Sentinels, Final Score 13:4)
  • Haven (Picked by Sentinels, Won by Sentinels, Final Score 13:6)
  • Split (Picked by Cloud9, Won by Sentinels, Final Score 12:14)

The Finals event would begin from April 30 with the fixtures already been determined by the game organizer according to final seedings and are as follows:

100 Thieves Vs Andbox: 30th April @ 00:30 IST
Version1 Vs Sentinels: 30th April @ 00:30 IST
Team Envy Vs Cloud9 Blue: 30th April @ 00:30 IST
XSET Vs NRG: 30th April @ 00:30 IST

These Eight teams would compete for 2 open spots at the VCT Masters event to be held on LAN in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

Lacari gets DMCA strike by twitch on 4 years old video

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Lacari gets DMCA strike by twitch on 4 years old video

Twitch streamer Lacari has lashed out at Amazon’s streaming platform for handing out a DMCA strike on a 4 year old VOD.

DMCA strikes often call for controversy, Twitch’s decisions regarding how they manage DMCA strikes are questioned at times and Lacari’s case is an example of that. DMCA strike on a 4-year-old VOD is as crazy as it sounds, especially when Twitch has put certain processes in place to help manage and avoid coming across a strike.

Lacari is a variety streamer with over 200K followers, having started his channel back in 2016, he has amassed a considerable number of VODs. However, to receive a strike for a 4-year-old video where according to him, he played an Eminem song is absurd, to say the least.

The video since then has been deleted and the streamer confirmed that Twitch had timely served an email notifying him about it but it wasn’t until now that they decided to take any action. He put forward a solid argument stating “The problem is they don’t tell you what the strike is from, and it wasn’t there when I started the stream before!”.

3 DMCA strikes lead to channel termination and Lacari has only two left till parting ways with the platform for good. From here onwards he remains on thin ice with Twitch and has to be extra cautious while streaming. Given his circumstances, it is less likely that this strike gets overlooked which has been the case for several streamers before him where Twitch was at fault.

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TenZ’s girlfriend Kyedae bullied into ending Twitch stream

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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TenZ’s girlfriend Kyedae bullied into ending Twitch stream

Freshly minted content creator for 100 Thieves Kyedae ‘Kyedae’ Shymko was bullied into ending her Twitch stream by a couple of toxic viewers in her chat. Those toxic viewers were very critical of the perfect life she leads as a streamer for a top organization.

Kyedae has been in a relationship with TenZ for quite some time now and was watching him perform at the VCT Stage 2 just when she noticed her chat being very critical of the perfect lifestyle she leads. Her expressions speak clearly about how she felt as she somehow managed to hold back her tears before ender her broadcast earlier than usual.

“For those of you guys who think that I have a perfect life, I don’t. It’s so rude to undermine these struggles that everyone goes through because everyone goes through different stuff. It’s just really fucked up.” said Kyedae. After a few mean viewers were toxic to her, the rest of her fanbase came together in her support.

Her partner in TenZ came forward to say “It doesn’t take much effort to think about a message before you send it. If you’re sending messages intentionally with a negative intent to hurt the streamers feelings, that is honestly so sad and low.”.

The life a popular streamer leads always looks great for everyone watching from afar, however, fans often tend to undermine the struggles that these personalities have gone through to get where they are. For Kyedae, we hope she’ll recover from this real quick and get back to her winning ways as soon as possible.

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NiP dev1ce pens an emotional note after Astralis departure, refers Sweden as ‘home’

Md. Naseer Fuad Khan
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NiP dev1ce pens an emotional note after Astralis departure, refers Sweden as ‘home’

Nicolai ‘dev1ce’ Reedtz, the twenty five year old Danish, carrier of the European storm in the CS:GO world has written a farewell message. The pride of Denmark has in a message, bid adieu to his five year old team Astralis. The Danish primary awper put out the statement yesterday after joining the ranks of NiP.

In his message he focused on the bonding he shared with dupreeh and Xyp9x while in Astralis.

dev1ce full statement

I’m sure most of you have now seen that as from today I am no longer a member of the @astralis team. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone at the organisation, my team mates, @bubzkji @itsdupreeh @gla1ve_csgo @xyp9x @magiskcsgo @zonic and our fans for everything that we’ve accomplished together.

I love you guys and you’ll always be considered family to me.⁣ I’m sure that the news hurts for some of you out there; the journey I’ve been on at Astralis – and going even further back with duppe+xyp – has been the best time of my life and it wouldn’t have been that without your support. I know I don’t say it often enough, but to every single one of you out there; thank you for inspiring me to pursue the best version of myself. ⁣⁣Teaming up with @nipgaming might come as a surprise for a lot of for you, but for me it has been a natural transition given that Sweden has been my home for a while now.

I’m really excited for the new project and my biggest wish is for you guys to understand, and continue supporting me on my next mission in this game that we all love. I’m proud to be your player and Astralis will always hold a special place in my heart. My biggest hope is that when we’re able to share our passion in the arena again, you will continue to support me as you’ve always done.⁣⁣ I promise to put on a show.

⁣⁣Nicolai ❤️⁣

Disguised Toast Receives Temporary Twitch Ban For ‘Unmoderated Hateful Conduct’

Sonu Banerjee
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Disguised Toast Receives Temporary Twitch Ban For ‘Unmoderated Hateful Conduct’

Popular video game streamer Disguised Toast has received a temporary ban from the streaming platform Twitch today for ‘Unmoderated Hateful Conduct’ during his live stream. 

While the exact reason behind his ban hasn’t been made clear by Twitch, the streamer suspects that it might be the result of one of his old Twitch clips showing a toxic player using the F-slur on him. 

Disguised Toast Twitch Ban

Toast informed his fans regarding the ban in a Tweet today.

“Got a temp ban from Twitch,” he said. “Not a big deal since I don’t usually stream there but does mean I have to avoid playing with any friends streaming for a few days.”

https://twitter.com/DisguisedToast/status/1386180987449577473?s=20

The ban shouldn’t cause many inconveniences to Toast since he primarily streams on Facebook Gaming. The OfflineTV star had signed an exclusive deal with Facebook Gaming after he rose to fame through his Hearthstone streams. His fellow Twitch streamers, however, won’t be able to play with him for a while due to the Twitch policies restricting streamers to play with banned users.

The exact duration of this temporary ban isn’t clear as of yet. 

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Apex Legends Decrypt the Password Locations Revealed

Kanishka Thakur
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Apex Legends Decrypt the Password Locations Revealed

Apex Legends have been a popular game for a long time and players get to crew up or go about it solo and battle their rivals until they are unbeaten. Although numerous players need to get familiar with Decrypt the password in Apex Legends.

Season 8 of Apex Legends introduced a whole new event called Decrypt the password, this event will run from the 16th of April to the 4th of May. 

The players need to scan Holo-Sprays in various locations to earn rewards but first, they have to go to a neutral Care Package to retrieve a key card. After retrieving the key card players will have to activate it in the lobby to access the challenges on the map. 

Players are finding it hard to find the Decrypt the Password Locations. The guide of Decrypt the Password is given below:

King Canyon

  • Top of The Cage.
  • Riverside of Bunker.
  • Top of Crash Site.
  • The roof of the large structure near the mountainside outside Singh Labs.
  • Under the entrance of the large structure at the north side of Offshore Rig.
  • Inside the secret lab at Caustic Treatment.
  • Under a building on the north side of Creature Containment.
  • Eastside of Swamps near the edge of the map.
  • Westside of Runoff.
  • Top of Skull Salvage.
  • At a building south of Watchtower South.
  • Inside The Pit, on the north side.
  • On the outside of the large bunker at Hydro Dam.
  • In an open space south of Artillery Battery.
  • On top of the large wall on the south side of Artillery Battery.
  • Northside of Airbase.
  • Westside of Spotted Lake, near the X-shaped building.

Olympus

  • Top of the center building at Autumn Estates.
  • In the middle of the Arcadia Supercarrier, located on a suspended beam.
  • On top of a wall in Central Turbine going to Hammond Labs.
  • On the roof of Hammond Labs.
  • Behind the central suspended structure on Orbital Cannon Test Site.
  • Under a bridge in the center of Hydroponics.
  • Northeast of Elysium.
  • Under the bridge between Orbital Cannon Test Site and Bonsai Plaza.
  • On top of a building on the west side of Rift Aftermath.
  • In the northwesternmost building at Bonsai Plaza.
  • In the north building at Velvet Oasis.
  • Inside a building at Energy Depot, near Hammond Labs.
  • The easternmost part of the map, east of Golden Gardens.
  • Inside the middle tower at Grow Towers.
  • Northernmost side of the map, just north of Power Grid.

After completing all the challenges, the players are required to enter the passcode at the Firing range and then they will be transported to a different arena where a cut scene will play which is also a teaser for Apex Legends Season 9. Finally, they can go back to the lobby and will be awarded the Impress Me Badge.

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Control DLCs are no longer available on the Steam Store

Mohammed Sadiq
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Control DLCs are no longer available on the Steam Store

Control’s PC version initially launched as an Epic Game Store exclusive which caused an uproar amongst Steam enthusiasts given how all of Remedy’s titles were available on Steam, with the exception of Quantum Break which was exclusive to Microsoft Store on PC for a while.

Control eventually released on Steam after a year but only as a single, complete package dubbed ‘Control: Ultimate Edition’  which included all updates and ‘The Foundation’ & ‘AWE’ DLCs while users on EGS had the freedom to choose between Standard and Ultimate Editions with the freedom to buy the season pass at their own leisure.

This seemingly changed when March 2021’s Humble Choice included Control as an option which led fans to believe that it might be the Ultimate Edition for Steam users since it was the only version available on the platform. However, 505 and Humble were quick to specify that the Humble version is simply the Standard Edition and does not contain any downloadable content but users could buy the DLCs separately either from Humble Store or the game’s Steam page itself once the bundle is available:

NOTE: When redeeming Control via Steam key, users may see Control Ultimate Edition in their Steam library and during installation. Please disregard the Ultimate Edition title as the Steam key will only grant Control Standard Edition. For more information, click here.

But earlier this week, 505 Games removed both the Standard Edition, the Season Pass as well as the option to purchase the DLCs individually from Steam. Users will be greeted by the following message if they access the store page for either of the DLCs : 

“Notice: At the request of the publisher, Control – The Foundation/AWE is no longer available for sale on Steam.”

It is unclear as to why 505 delisted the DLCs as a lot of Humble users will have to acquire a key for the Season pass through their store and is on sale for a Limited time, removing it from Steam itself makes no sense. Fortunately, EGS users can still choose freely between the versions. This isn’t the first time 505 Games have upset the fans as they announced that owners of Control won’t be eligible for a next-gen upgrade unless they own the Ultimate Edition of the game.

Control is available on PC, Xbox One & Series S|X, PlayStation 4 & 5, and Switch.

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Team Mahi threatens “legal action” against ex-player Excali

Arundhati Dutta
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Team Mahi threatens “legal action” against ex-player Excali

India’s one of the top Valorant roster Team Mahi is planning to take legal action against their former player Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar. The announcement was made on their social media after TalkEsport broke the story of Excali joining Samurai Esports.

Team Mahi has claimed Karan is still under contract with their organization and the move by Samurai Esports has “shocked them.” The statement on their instagram read “strict legal action will be taken against him (Karan).” Although there’s no further clarification on how long is the contract.

Screengrab from https://www.instagram.com/officialteammahi/

It is also pertinent to note that the player in question Karan, has still not made posts referring to this change of organization.

Samurai Esports’ Valorant Roster

  • Simar ‘psy’ Sethi
  • Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar
  • Harsh ‘Harsh’ Arora
  • Saaransh ‘Whimp’ Dang
  • Shailesh ‘blackhawk’ Dalvi

The news of Samurai Esports signing Karan was announced on their official social media channel.

There has been no response from Samurai Esports on the allegation of the breach of contract by Team Mahi. Further, the social media mention has Karan, flashing Samurai’s official jersey which suggests the shoots have been taking place and it was well planned.

India’s Valorant scene has been garnering immense traction compared to what CS:GO offered. However, this is a debut controversy broiling of this nature.

As it appears, the old duo Simar ‘psy’ Sethi and Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar who were earlier team mates in CS:GO are back together in Valorant too.

Valorant Pro Excali quits Team Mahi

Pranav Nalawade
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Valorant Pro Excali quits Team Mahi

Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar has left Team Mahi to join Samurai Esports’ Valorant roster. With this move, Team Mahi is now down to five players in their Valorant roster.

While further details of the deal are yet to be disclosed, Excali’s arrival will further boost Samurai Esports’ credentials of staking a claim to be the best Valorant organisation in India, having previously taken in the released XTZ Esports lineup headlined by Simar ‘psy’ Sethi.

Samurai Esports has gained some notoriety in the scene already, despite going through some roster issues that saw Tejas ‘Rexy’ Kotian depart from the active roster. And now, with the addition of Excali, Samurai Esports will be looking to do some serious damage on the Valorant servers.

Exclusively Speaking to TalkEsport, Premal Mehta said, “At Samurai Esports, we have a un dithered commitment to be the best in Valorant and this move ensures another step in that direction for the roster. We are confident the acquisition of a seasoned performer like Excali will help us climb the proverbial Valorant India ladder with added velocity and aplomb.”

Excali leaves Team Mahi after a trophy laden blitz of a year and more in Valorant with the squad back from their Velocity Gaming days.

With Excali departing the Team Mahi roster, they will now have only five players in their squad and it will be interesting to see whether they stick with what they have or proceed to mitigate Excali’s departure with an arrival of their own.

Samurai Esports Valorant Roster:

  • Simar ‘psy’ Sethi
  • Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar
  • Harsh ‘Harsh’ Arora
  • Saaransh ‘Whimp’ Dang
  • Shailesh ‘blackhawk’ Dalvi

Exclusive: Samurai Esports signs Excali to their Valorant Roster

Abhishek Bajaj
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Exclusive: Samurai Esports signs Excali to their Valorant Roster

Samurai Esports have added Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar to their budding Valorant roster. The player arrives from Team Mahi after earning a reputation of being one of the best players in India right from the inception of the regional competitive Valorant scene.

While further details of the deal are yet to be disclosed, Excali’s arrival will further boost Samurai Esports’ credentials of staking a claim to be the best Valorant organisation in India, having previously taken in the released XTZ Esports lineup headlined by Simar ‘psy’ Sethi.

Samurai Esports has gained some notoriety in the scene already, despite going through some roster issues that saw Tejas ‘Rexy’ Kotian depart from the active roster. And now, with the addition of Excali, Samurai Esports will be looking to do some serious damage on the Valorant servers.

Exclusively Speaking to TalkEsport, Premal Mehta said, “At Samurai Esports, we have a un dithered commitment to be the best in Valorant and this move ensures another step in that direction for the roster. We are confident the acquisition of a seasoned performer like Excali will help us climb the proverbial Valorant India ladder with added velocity and aplomb.”

Excali leaves Team Mahi after a trophy laden blitz of a year and more in Valorant with the squad back from their Velocity Gaming days.

With Excali departing the Team Mahi roster, they will now have only five players in their squad and it will be interesting to see whether they stick with what they have or proceed to mitigate Excali’s departure with an arrival of their own.

Samurai Esports Valorant Roster:

  • Simar ‘psy’ Sethi
  • Karan ‘Excali’ Mhaswadkar
  • Harsh ‘Harsh’ Arora
  • Saaransh ‘Whimp’ Dang
  • Shailesh ‘blackhawk’ Dalvi
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