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Here Are Valorant Mumbai Servers IP To Check Your Connectivity Issues

Sonu Banerjee
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Here Are Valorant Mumbai Servers IP To Check Your Connectivity Issues

The third Act of Riot’s competitive shooter Valorant is finally here, and it has brought with it a plethora of changes to the game and new matchmaking servers for the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia which players have been asking ever since the release of Valorant.

However, it seems like Valorant players in some parts of India are continuing to experience high latencies despite the South Asian server being located in Mumbai, India.

This might be a result of routing issues, which can potentially be fixed by gaining access to the server IPs, and that’s why Riot has revealed the IPs of some of the newly implemented Mumbai servers in a Reddit thread yesterday.

Here are the IPs of the Valorant servers in Mumbai which have been revealed by a Riot dev:

1) 75.2.66.166
2) 99.83.136.104

To check your connectivity to these servers, open the command prompt by pressing windows key + R at the same time and typing in ‘cmd’. Once done, type ‘ping’ followed by the destination IP address, and you’ll be able to see your ping to the servers.

Keep in mind that even though you have good latencies, you can’t play competitive matchmaking in Valorant right now due to an audio bug across all maps in the game. Riot has promised that they’ll get the servers up and running for ranked once the bug is fully fixed.

Shroud Says Valorant Will Become The Top FPS Esport Title

Sonu Banerjee
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Shroud Says Valorant Will Become The Top FPS Esport Title

Michael “shroud” Grzesiek has once again revealed his thoughts on the future of Valorant as an esport title, and it seems like he predicts a bright future for the competitive shooter by Riot.

While talking about Valorant in his Twitch stream yesterday, Shroud complimented the shooter in a number of aspects.

“Valorant’s just gonna hit, and it’s gonna hit hard,” the 26-year-old said.

He then proceeded to mention how the player count of CSGO – Valve’s title and the primary rival of Valorant in the genre – is steadily declining and if Riot can seize this opportunity to organize a proper LAN tournament for their game, then it can potentially get ahead of CSGO in the race to be the top FPS esport in the video gaming world.

“It has the perfect recipe right now,” Shroud continued. “If Valorant nails the timing of coming to LAN and tournaments are popping off, it’s gonna blow the f**k up, even more than it already has.”

When asked if Valorant can take the top FPS spot in esports, Shroud responded, “Oh, yeah. Easily.”

While CSGO has seen a rough patch in terms of player numbers recently, it can easily turn around once a new operation arrives. Some leaks have hinted towards the next operation coming in only a few weeks from now, although none of it has been confirmed as of yet.

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Na’Vi Star ‘Perfecto’ Tests Positive For COVID-19

Sonu Banerjee
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Na’Vi Star ‘Perfecto’ Tests Positive For COVID-19

CSGO pro and Na’Vi star Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy has received the report for his COVID-19 test, and it was positive. The 20-year-old shared the news in a tweet yesterday.

Perfecto mentioned that he was feeling bad over the past week. He felt that his condition started to worsen when he received a positive report for his COVID test.

“I feel bad for a whole week, and in recent days my condition has worsened. And today a positive test for coronavirus came,” Perfecto said. “Hope everything goes well, be careful guys.

The Russian pro has been playing as a rifler in Natus Vincere since late january and is undoubtedly one of the best rifles in the entire world. He has previously played for teams like Syman Gaming and Atlants Gaming over the past three years.

We wish Perfecto a speedy recovery from the unfortunate scenario and hope that he can return to competitive play at the earliest.

Astralis’ director discovered to be one of the Owners of HLTV

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Astralis’ director discovered to be one of the Owners of HLTV

Duncan “Thorin” Shields’ has never made any secret of his outlook on Astralis. The British esports journalist has actively been pointing out “shady business” in Astralis groups for months. Most recently, Thorin took to Twitter to expose some crucial details about the Danish organization’s director’s involvement in HLTV organization.

Thorin revealed a screenshot from Astralis Groups IPO prospectus which included brief information about Better Collective’s co-founder Jesper Søgaard’s shares in Astralis groups.

Earlier this year, Better Collective acquired Hltv.org for €34.5 million. Both the companies made general announcements and press releases; however, no particular mention of Astralis was made. Thorin brought this to the knowledge of esports fans that Astralis’ director Jesper Søgaard owns 50% shares in Better Collective.

Better collective was founded by one of Astralis’ stakeholder.

The esport historian is of the view that the news website should have made it public that a shareholder of a top team is the new owner of HLTV. It’s important to mention here that HLTV is one of the biggest news portals of CSGO, their rankings hold great importance in deciding a player’s or a team’s worth.

Keeping that in view, Thorin and fans are now questioning Astralis’ continuous hold on the number one spot. However, the ranking system in HLTV is based on points earned and lost, which makes it entirely transparent. Manipulation of news and suppressing the negative aspects of an organization, however, remains to be an issue.

Thorin has previously accused Astralis’ of overworking its players and attributes the burnout issues in the organization to the same. In his recent tweets, he said that by conducting interviews with the players and publishing first-hand news from the organization, HLTV might have played a role in showing events in a different light.

The mega news portal HLTV has been operating for more than half of a year without revealing details about their connection with Danish esports organization. Fans are infuriated as HLTV has continued to create content around Astralis and its players without disclosing their ties, creating a conflict of interest.

Where some fans are of the view that Astralis itself is not responsible for the ownership history of its stakeholders, others believe that this event is another addition to Astralis’ belt of suspicious activities. Both Astralis groups and Better collective have eluded the discussion, as no one has commented so far.

A previous version of this story mentioned “CEO of HLTV” instead of “owner of HLTV.” Regret any inconvenience it may have caused.

Gabe Newell Wants To Temporarily Relocate Valve HQ To New Zealand

Sonu Banerjee
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Gabe Newell Wants To Temporarily Relocate Valve HQ To New Zealand

New Zealand is one of the few countries across the world that is handling the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well. The country reported almost no positive cases for several weeks in a row and made it to the headlines in global media.

Gabe Newell has been living in New Zealand since March 2020, which may be due to the aforementioned reason in attempts to protect himself from the deadly virus. Apparently, Newell might be planning to move the Valve headquarters to the country as well, at least temporarily.

In an interview with Geoff Keighley in a Game Awards Zoom meeting yesterday, Gaben has shared his plans about the future of Valve.

According to a recent video by VNN Tyler, it was implied that Newell may be planning to meet the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to discuss moving the Valve HQ to the country. This would not only help the company move to a safer environment overall, but it would also spare the employees from working from home.

“Because I’ve been going on a pro-New Zealand campaign lately, I’m probably going to be meeting with the Prime Minister,” Newell said, “and one of the positions I’m going to be arguing for is that, given there is something super valuable that has been created here in New Zealand due to the hard work of the population of New Zealand, there is likely a large want to temporarily relocate production teams into the country.”

How to claim Valorant Amazon Prime Loot

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How to claim Valorant Amazon Prime Loot

Since September 2020, Riot has introduced a new way for players to earn weapon skins and other rewards in Valorant through Prime Gaming. Players with an Amazon Prime subscription can redeem exclusive and limited edition cosmetics for the competitive shooter which can be used in-game.

It’s important to note that these free rewards are entirely for cosmetic purposes and prove the players with no additional competitive advantage. So, you don’t have to stress it out if you’re not willing to spend real money on the game.

How to claim Amazon Prime loot?

To claim the Prime loot in Valorant, players will need an active Amazon Prime subscription. In case you don’t wanna buy a subscription, you can get your first month completely free. Once done, you can visit Prime Gaming’s Valorant loot page to link your Valorant and Amazon accounts to unlock exclusive Prime Gaming drops.

That’s it, now you can redeem your monthly free rewards as long as you have the subscription active.

The loot will refresh after every month, and Riot has confirmed that these exclusive rewards may not be available anytime soon. Neither can you redeem the last month’s reward with your current subscription. So, make sure to redeem them before they’re gone.

AOC Sets up Twitch Channel to Stream Among Us and ‘get out the vote’

Pranav Nalawade
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AOC Sets up Twitch Channel to Stream Among Us and ‘get out the vote’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials AOC, is looking to get the vote out by playing one of the most popular games of 2020 on her Twitch stream today.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who serves as the representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, has hinted at the possibility of streaming with popular twitch streamer Pokimane.

It all started with a tweet from Cortez, known by her initials AOC, when she tweeted that she found the game fun, which caused a bunch of streamers to respond to her.

Among the first was one of the most popular streamers Imane “Pokimane” Anys, who replied by saying “It’d be an honour”, to which AOC replied in the affirmative.

Several other famous online personalities like Keemstar, James Charles and Disguised Toast joined the bandwagon, which caused the tweet to go viral and have more than 200k+ likes on it.

Among us is a social deduction game similar to mafia where the 2 teams, crewmates and imposters try to outwit each other. If the imposters kill all the crewmates before being caught they win, whereas crewmates need to find and vote out the 2 imposters or finish their tasks to be the victors.

“Anyone want to play Among Us with me on Twitch to get out the vote? (I’ve never played but it looks like a lot of fun),” she wrote on Twitter. Gamer Pokimane responded to the politician’s request, offering to join her for her first stream. “Let’s do it!” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez wrote back. “I’ll set up an account and get some streaming equipment today.”

AOC Twitch Channel?

AOC later tweeted that her Twitch channel has been set up, and as she is getting her equipment and setup in place, it should not be long before the much awaited stream will take place.

It is the first time a politician has shown a keen interest in the game that went viral this summer, and will garner a lot of interest when the stream finally goes live.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pokimane to stream Among Us together

Parth Gada
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pokimane to stream Among Us together

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who serves as the representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, has hinted at the possibility of streaming with popular twitch streamer Pokimane.

It all started with a tweet from Cortez, known by her initials AOC, when she tweeted that she found the game fun, which caused a bunch of streamers to respond to her.

Among the first was one of the most popular streamers Imane “Pokimane” Anys, who replied by saying “It’d be an honour”, to which AOC replied in the affirmative.

Several other famous online personalities like Keemstar, James Charles and Disguised Toast joined the bandwagon, which caused the tweet to go viral and have more than 200k+ likes on it.

Among us is a social deduction game similar to mafia where the 2 teams, crewmates and imposters try to outwit each other. If the imposters kill all the crewmates before being caught they win, whereas crewmates need to find and vote out the 2 imposters or finish their tasks to be the victors.

AOC later tweeted that her Twitch channel has been set up, and as she is getting her equipment and setup in place, it should not be long before the much awaited stream will take place.

It is the first time a politician has shown a keen interest in the game that went viral this summer, and will garner a lot of interest when the stream finally goes live.

Valorant map selection rates will no longer favor Icebox

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant map selection rates will no longer favor Icebox

After a week since the release of the new Valorant map Icebox, Riot has decided to not favor it in the map pool of unranked game modes.

Icebox was introduced to Valorant alongside the release of Act 3 on October 13th. However, the map wasn’t made available to play in ranked due to potential bugs that could be found out during its first few days. Seems like the decision was correct, since some game-breaking bugs already seem to have been found in this new snow-themed map.

In case you haven’t noticed, if you were playing any unranked game mode over the past week (unrated, spike rush, deathmatch), you were much more likely to be placed in Icebox over the other maps.

This change was made by Riot to let players enjoy the newly introduced map as well as to figure out any potential bugs that may be existent in it.

Today, Riot confirmed that the matchmaking algorithm will no longer favor Icebox in any game mode.

“Now that many players have gotten to play Icebox since it launched, map selection rates on Unrated, Deathmatch, and Spike Rush modes will no longer favor Icebox,” the devs said. “This will help us get ready for Icebox to join Competitive mode on October 27th.”

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Valorant First Strike North America Qualifiers: Details Inside

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Valorant First Strike North America Qualifiers: Details Inside

A few weeks ago, Riot Games announced the first official Riot Games-produced VALORANT tournament, First Strike. What started as two NA qualifiers, is now the top 8 teams battling for their share of the $100K prize pool, and the title as first First Strike champion. 

The competition will begin on October 26 with the first open, 128-team tournament, produced by Nerd Street Gamers. The tournament will whittle down the pool to 16 teams, who will compete in the first qualifier. From there, the top four teams will advance straight to the main event, and the next four teams will advance into the second open tournament for another chance to fight for their spot in First Strike.

For any teams who don’t make the first cut, you’re in luck — there will be a second open qualifier where teams can re-enter and get another shot. 

The second open tournament, produced by partner Engine Media (UMG), will start November 11. The top twelve teams will move into the second qualifier, joining the four teams from the first qualifier. From there, four more teams will make it into the First Strike event — making a total of eight teams competing for a slice of the $100K pie. 

Players and teams interested in competing in the qualifiers can register at nerdstgamers.com/valorant (for the NSG open qualifier) and umggaming.com (for the UMG open qualifier).  

The full schedule includes:

  •  Oct. 26 – 30 — NSG Open Qualifier
  •  Nov. 4 – 8 — NSG Tournament
    • Top 4 teams advance to VALORANT First Strike Event
    • Next 4 teams advance to UMG Tournament 2 (below)
    •  Watch on Twitch (nerdstgamers or VALORANT_NA) or YouTube (VALORANT_NA)
  •  Nov. 11 – 15 — UMG Open Qualifier
  •  Nov. 18 – 22 — UMG Tournament
    • Note: Pool includes 4 teams from NSG Tournament
    • Top 4 teams advance to VALORANT First Strike Event
    •  Watch on Twitch (UMGGaming or VALORANT_NA) or YouTube (VALORANT_NA)
  •  Dec. 3 – 6 — VALORANT First Strike Event

First Strike is the first major chapter in VALORANT esports, with the support of two stellar partners to bring it to life — Nerd Street Gamers, which has already partnered with FaZe Clan and T1 to power their Ignition Series tournaments, and Engine Media/UMG, one of the most storied names in both elite and amateur competitive organizing.

“After being selected by elite organizations such as FaZe Clan and T1 to power their Ignition Series tournaments, we are elated to work with Riot in running a Nerd Street Gamers First Strike qualifier series,” said John Fazio, founder and CEO of Nerd Street Gamers. “We have built a comprehensive competitive ecosystem with our amateur VALORANT events since the game’s release, and this is an incredible launching point for what the future holds.”

“UMG has a proven history of being the hub of both elite and amateur competitive gaming, and we couldn’t be more excited to support and grow the VALORANT gaming community in partnership with Riot Games,” said Lou Schwartz, Co-CEO of Engine Media. “Between Engine Media’s tournament hosting and production capabilities (UMG) and its esports reporting and analytics services (Stream Hatchet), we look forward to supporting both Riot Games and the gaming community from end-to-end of their journey.”

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