Since his demise, multiple fundraisers have been setup to help the family.
We spent six or seven hours a night playing. We eventually toppled all of Australia’s top teams. We were fairly unstoppable, winning LAN after LAN and nearly every online competition we entered.
Finally, Entity Gaming unveils the ‘save the date’ marvel, however, few could guess what was coming up. Entity gets faster, smoother and louder as the Mumbai based organization bags sponsorship from Kingston’s HyperX. Entity’s dedication towards their vision alongside HyperX’s devotion to manufacture quality products will lead to fresh horizon in the esports circuit of India.
HyperX is entering into our line of sponsors monetarily too! It is a first for us and we believe that we are setting a standard for the industry with regards to how sponsorships are done. We welcome this sea change in the scene and are excited to see how this pans out for the Indian esport ecosystem. India’s esport circuit requires the right infrastructure and funding to make the nation world-ready. This is a step in the right direction.
Varun Bhavnani, Director & Chief Gaming Officer, Entity Gaming.
We have interacted earlier with few of our community initiatives, and we are indeed excited to officially welcome Entity Gaming to the HyperX family. HyperX has been a strong support for developing the Indian gaming community and we believe it is time to focus on developing the talent and skillsets. We aim to help Team Entity gain the most out of this association and also help other Indian gaming enthusiasts to polish their gameplay in a healthy gaming environment.
Mr. Vishal Parekh, Marketing Director, Kingston Technology & HyperX India.
Entity Gaming has been showcasing astonishing results in the recent past. Just recently, Entity’s CS:GO division advanced to SEA Closed Qualifier of IEM Sydney 2019. Previously, their Dota 2 lineup had a substantial run at The International 2018 in SEA Qualifier. It has recently acquired a four man squad for Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Mobile as well which is yet to test the waters. Entity is also building their stream team with the likes of K18 Gaming and Shagufta “Xyaa” Iqbal.
We're super thrilled to make this move! HyperX is the official sponsors for Entity Gaming!
#ETG #HyperX #WeAreAllGamers
On the other hand, HyperX has been quite vocal in the local scene lately. HyperX was also on-board the ESL India Premiership 2018 and DreamHack Mumbai. HyperX booths at both the vintage events facilitated gamers to experience quality gaming products at one’s disposal. HyperX is a go-to choice for the enthusiasts when it comes to RAMs, headsets, keyboards and mousepads.
Swedish powerhouse Fnatic have received the final invite for IEM Sydney, as announced by ESL.
They join the likes of FaZe, NiP, Liquid and MIBR as some of the most famous team to be invited down under. Mousesports is another team to watch out for as they rebuild with a fresh roster that has seen 16 year old prodigy Frozen being included in the roster and a return for ex FaZe IGL karrigan.
One of the most traditional and successful teams in #CSGO history will storm into #IEM Sydney looking to rekindle their spark. Australia, are you ready for @FNATIC?
Fnatic, who finished 5th-6th last year, will fancy themselves for a good showing with many of the spots being taken up by local teams through qualifiers. It will be a good test for Asian teams like BOOT-d[s] and ViCi who have shown potential to be competing among the best but have not done that on a consistent basis.
The $100,000 tournament takes place in Qudos Arena, Sydney from April 30-May 5 .
The teams that have secured their place so far are as follows:
Former Counter Strike 1.6 Professional Kristoffer ‘Faken’ Andersson has been caught using cheats on stream, after viewers spotted a wall hack off the reflection of his glasses during a streaming session.
The clip, which went viral on March 24, had Andersson holding jungle from palace, when a red player model reflected off his glasses that confirmed he was wall hacking.
Faken is a former CS 1.6 pro who has not returned to CSGO full time, but has had a few appearances in open qualifiers here and there. He was, however, a regular streamer of Twitch.
Since the incident, his Twitch channel is not available and after a quiet few months, the spotlight is back on cheating in CSGO and potentially how many pros have gotten away with it. Valve has taken cognisance of the influx in the number of users after CSGO was made Free to Play and banned over 1.6 million accounts in December 2018, but the number of people that get away with more expensive cheats questions the effectiveness of VAC.
According to several reports by news outlets and Twitter, Tencent has imposed a nation wide restriction on the maximum time a player can play the game in a day.
While it is not entirely clear, it is being reported that PUBG is being restricted to 6 hours per day for Indians. Following that, the user is logged out till the next day and is unable to play the game.
PUBG Mobile has had its fair share of controversies in India, from a kid stealing money from his father to buy skins, to a teen committing suicide because his parents did not fund the purchase of a higher end smartphone to play PUBG in a higher resolution. The frenzy has caused the Gujarat government to ban the game, with some arrests being made too.
Tencent in response has said the following:
In consonance with our endeavour to continue promoting responsible gaming experience, we are working on the introduction of a healthy gameplay system in India to promote balanced, responsible gaming, including limiting play time for under-aged players.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been on the market since August 2012 and has attracted audiences from all age groups. We have seen players as young as 15 years-old playing NA FPL with professional players. On the contrary we also have Silver Snipers, a Swedish team who range in age from 63 to 82. However, the future of CS:GO will be shaped by the young guns who are starting to carve out a name for themselves in the scene.
Region: North-American
Sam “s0m” Oh – 16 years
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Sam “s0m” Oh (born June 7, 2002) is a Korean-American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and streamer. S0m came into the limelight when he was first added to the compLexity stream team on the 21st of February 2018. Following that, s0m has played for multiple teams such as Old Guys Club and Swole Patrol. At the tender age of 16, s0m boasts an impact rating of 1.15 and and 0.75 Kills Per Round.
Jason “neptune” Tran (born September 15, 2002) is an American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He joined Ghost Gaming as an entry fragger on the 25th of September for the second time as he was benched in 2017 after it was revealed that he was only 15 years-old and thus ineligible to play for the team which recently qualified for ESL Pro League Season 6. His HLTV rating stands at 0.93 and has 0.60 Kills Per Round.
Owen “oBo” Schlatter – 15 years
Owen “oBo” Schlatter (born June 26, 2003) is an American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He has no professional background, but is well renowned for FPL streams and he has played with top North-American players on the platform. He is infamous for extremely flashy plays and will be a top gun in the professional CS:GO scene in the near future.
Region: Europe
In the European region, four young guns have etched their name in the professional scene, namely, Plopski and Brollan and Sergej and x. At the age of 16. They are playing for the top rated teams in the Swedish and Finnish Scene.
Nicolas “Plopski” Gonzalez Zamora – 16 years
Nicolas “Plopski” Gonzalez Zamora (born May 14, 2002) is a Swedish-Spanish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He is currently playing for x6tence Galaxy. In his lifetime, Plopski has a rating of 1.12 and has 0.71 Kills Per Round. In his career with x6tence Galaxy, the team has stood first in Winners League – Season 1: Invite Division, beating BPro Gaming in the grand final.
Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin – 16 years
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Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin is a Swedish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player currently playing for Fnatic. Brollan is one of the youngest players to play for a professional team, signing with GODSENT when he was only 15 years old. On October 17th he signed with Fnatic. His HLTV rating stands at 1.15 and has 0.74 Kills Per Round. In his career with Fnatic, the team stood first in the PLG Grand Slam 2018.
Jere “sergej” Salo- 17 years
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Jere “sergej” Salo (born March 1, 2002) is a Finnish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, who is currently playing for ENCE as a rifler. Sergej has achieved the heights of achievements at the tender age of 17.
David “frozen” Čerňanský (born July 18, 2002) is a Slovakian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, who currently plays for mousesports as an entry fragger. Frozen was first spotted by players in 2017 and made his big debut by playing for team No-Chance. After that, he was picked up by Mouz following their horrible run at the Minor. At the age of 16, he averages a rating of 1.17 and 0.81 kills per round. In 2017 and 2018, he was named the breakout player of the year by Magisk and Guardian respectively.
Region: South East-Asian
Jason ‘f0rsakeN’ Susanto – 14 years
Jason ‘f0rsakeN’ Susanto is a professional Indonesian player who currently plays for BOOM in the SEA region. He is the brother of Kevin “xccurate” Susanto who plays for team TyLoo. At the tender age of 14, f0rsakeN boasts a rating of 1.35 and has 0.82 Kills Per Round. f0sakeN is making waves in the SEA region. He plays in the APL and on SoStronk. He has been crowned as the player of the month multiple times by SoStronk.
The Danish side breezed through the $250,000 event without dropping a single map, defeating FaZe, NiP, Liquid, MIBR, and ENCE in the process. Astralis had an unbeaten 5-0 in the round robin group stage matches, which matched them against Team Liquid in the grand finals of the two-day event.
Astralis were matched up against Liquid in the finals of Blast Pro Sao Paulo. The best of three was played on Dust2, Inferno and Overpass.
The vetoes for the grand final were as follows:
Liquid removed Nuke
Astralis removed Cache
Liquid picked Dust2
Astralis picked Inferno
Liquid removed Train
Astralis removed Mirage
Overpass was left over
Grand finals
Astralis vs. Team Liquid
Team Liquid won Dust2 16-13
Astralis won Inferno 16-8
Astralis won Overpass 16-2
The final picked off on Dust 2, a map picked by Liquid. Liquid kicked off the T-side in style with picking up the pistol round and the following anti-eco. Liquid also secured the first buy round in their favor. However, the Danes weren’t going to give up, Astralis then went on a streak to pick up the next 5 rounds. The rest of the half was very neck to neck and ended with a scoreline of 8-7 in the favor of Liquid.
In the second half, Astralis quickly picked up the pistol and the following two rounds Liquid answered back with their own two rounds in return. However, Astralis steered ahead to put thirteen on their tally. Liquid put their legs on the accelerator and secured the first map in their favour with a 16-13 scoreline after pulling back six rounds in a row.
Inferno, which was picked by Astralis, saw Liquid began the game on the CT-Side Astralis picked up the pistol round in convincing fashion. The second round force buy gamble from Liquid failed, propelling Astralis to another victory. Astralis showed no signs of slowing down and pushed themselves to a scoreline of 10-0, dominating the CT’s. Finally, Liquid were able to put one round one board following a quick deagle triple kill by NAF. Using the same momentum, Liquid put another two rounds on board. The first half ended with a scoreline fo 11-4, in the favor of the Danes.
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In the second half, Liquid picked up the pistol round using the same execution used by Astralis in the first pistol round of this map. The second round force buy gamble from Astralis failed, allowing Liquid another round. Slowly and steadily, Liquid picked out 8 rounds on the board, while Astralis moved to 13. In Inferno,Liquid were only able to manage 8 rounds, before Astralis secured the second map in their favor with a scoreline of 16-8.
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The last map, was the decider, Overpass. Liquid kicked off the map on the CT-side. Astralis once again kicked off the game in style by picking up a victory on the pistol round and the following force buy from Liquid. The Astralis domination was back and the Danes did not let Liquid put a single round on board. The Astralis train came to a stop thanks to a lockdown B-site hold from Twistzz and Stewie2k. However, this was not enough to stop Astralis. Their executes proved too strong for Liquid who were only able to get another round on board. The half ended with a 13-2 scoreline.
In the second half, Astralis were able to pick up the pistol round and foiled the force buy plan from Liquid, putting them on match and championship point. Astralis did not have to break a sweat on the final round and won the round with three players surviving.
After a draw with Liquid, ENCE failed to make it to the grand final of Blast Pro Sao Paulo, ENCE picked MIBR in the Blast Pro Stand-off. The rules of the stand-off are quite simple. A series of 1v1 aim duels are played on an aim map. The player to first reach 7 points is crowned victorious. The kills taken by the player per duel are added to the team tally. After 5 duels, the team with the higher kills is declared the winner and takes home 20,000$.
In the stand-off, ENCE showed a really dominant stand off right from the start. Aerial let felps secure only 5 kills on the opening M4 round. The same scoreline was repeated for the Deagle round between Aleksib and TACO.
In the third round, xseven demolished coldzera in the AK-47 round. The Brazilian maestro was restricted only to two rounds in the round.
The last two rounds ended with 7-6 score line, with ENCE emerging victorious on both rounds, following really close encounters between sergej and fer on CZ75 and FalleN and Allu on the big green gun.
With those , ENCE emerged victorious on all five rounds with a of 35:24. They took home the third place in the tournament and MIBR in the stand-off, not letting them take a single round.
Vice’s move to Cloud9 comes after Rogue decided to pull out of CSGO operations for a while as it was impossible to rebuild the roster following the departure of multiple players who received individual offers from other teams in the professional scene.
Despite this change, vice will play with Rogue at StarSeries i-League Season 7, which will end on April 7. His first event with Cloud9 will be BLAST Pro Series Miami, from April 12th-13th.
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Cloud9 look to find long needed roster stability. The team has been plagued with roster changes from March 2018 due to multiple issues such as Golden’s illness which prohibited him from playing CSGO competitively till he recovered completely.
This change completes the roster. The whole roster is:
Jamison “PVPX” Moore was the first one to join the squad along with Greg “Grego” McAllen. Grego previously played Overwatch League for Cloud9. PVPX joined them twam at the start of this month.
Joseph “Frexs” Sanchez and Justin “Chappie” Andrews are the final players of the Apex Legends Squad who formerly played PUBG under the C9 banner.
Cloud9 now joins other big-name organizations such as 100 Thieves, NRG, and TSM to invest time and money into this new game. The Cloud9 Apex team will be seen in action in the recently announced Twitch Rivals event. All eyes will be set on the men in blue who look to display their potential on stage.
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