MVP PK have announced that they have filled their roster with the signing of three players from GOSU.
Hae-Sung “HSK” Kim, Hong-Gyo “Jinx” Jung and Gu-Taek “stax” Kim have joined MVP PK, whose roster had come down to just three players following the departures of Keun-Chul “solo” Kang and Min-Soo “glow” Kim.
These changes leave MVP PK with a six-man roster, which the team will experiment with to decide the playing five
The South Korean team will be in action with this lineup in the ESL Pro League Season 9 China Closed Qualifier, on March 16-17.The tournament will feature eight teams from across the continent and the winners get two spots in the main EPL Asia tournament
ESL One Mumbai & COBX Masters are bringing incredible DotA 2 action in Mumbai this year. In the month of April, both the international level tournament will have celebrities competing for glory.
At COBX Masters, DotA 2 fanatics including the likes of ‘Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin, and his team Tigers will be competing. Alongside the invites, Signify has qualified from the Indian slot.
COBX Masters – a dual event for both CSGO & DotA 2 fans is hitting the Indian circuit in April this year. The pool for the event is $200,000 which will be equally divided between the two games.
Earlier today CSGO welcomed an update which reduced the CPU memory usage 40%. Further it added more scoreboard options to mute enemies and even hide their Steam display pictures.
– Added an optional -d3d9ex command line switch to reduce CPU memory use by about 40%. If you encounter graphics problems with this feature, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject “D3D9EX”.
[COMMUNICATION OPTIONS]
– Added communication options in Game Settings which allow the following:
— Mute enemy team
— Block communication from everyone except players you are friends with or players in your matchmaking party
— Hide avatar images
— Change names of players not on your friends list to something neutral
[MISC]
– Katowice 2019 comes to a close: Champions and Legends have been engraved on the trophies, and the Katowice 2019 graffiti can no longer be applied in game.
– Increased the voting time on official servers before transitioning to the next map.
– Fixed a scoreboard case where a player’s rank icons sometimes didn’t get removed when the player was replaced with a bot.
The first update after IEM Katowice unfortunately did not see any AUG related changes but now gives users the ability to reduce CPU memory usage by using the startup command “-d3d9ex” which reduces the load on the CPU from CS:GO up to approximately 40 percent.
In order to enable the changes, go to CS:GO in your Steam games library, right click on the game and select “Properties,” click “Set Launch Options” in the General tab, and type “-d3d9ex” in the box.
The change has slightly increased frame rates and increased the ALT+TAB speeds.
The new communication settings look like this ingame. These features have been wanted for a long time as many streamers have faced issues on Twitch after opponents changed avatar pictures to obscene images so that the streamers would get banned for nudity
Entity have just beaten RRQ 2-1 in Round 5 of the IEM Sydney Open Qualifiers, and to the delight of Indian fans, now move on to the Closed Qualifier.
IEM Sydney 2019 SEA Open Qualifier #1 Semi-final:
RRQ won Inferno 16-8
Entity Gaming won Mirage 22-20
Entity Gaming won Train 16-10
After having banned Nuke, Entity picked Inferno after some impressive results of late, but having lost both pistols and not gaining any ground on the buy rounds, they lost 16-8, with an impressive performance from FrostMisty that saw a monstrous ADR of 97. What also helped them was the fact that RRG got the opening kill in 17 out of the 24 rounds that were played.
With all hope lost and a 2-0 on the cards, Entity got their mojo back on Mirage and got off to a blistering 11-4 start on the CT side. However, they struggled massively on the T side and lost the opening 7 rounds to equalize the score.
After somehow scraping 4 rounds, the game went to overtime, where it was a very close contest, and after a double OT, the Indian side came victorious, winning 22-20. Djoxic and psy, who had a terrible first map, with a combined 17 kills and 39 deaths, stepped up their game massively on Mirage. The Serb put in a 40 bomb, with 21 AWP kills while psy redeemed himself by getting 34 to his name and an ADR of 89.
What remained was a mouth watering decider on Train, a map which both were comfortable on. Entity got a fast 8-2 lead on the CT side, but after a couple of mistakes, they led the Indonesian squad back in to the game, eventually pulling it back to 6-9. After winning the pistol, however, RRQ did not have much to show, and Entity closed out the series 16-10.
This means that Indian CS fans have a lot to get excited about, as Entity moves to the closed qualifiers, 1 step closer to the main event. Stay tuned for more updates.
MVP PK have announced that the veteran duo of Keun-Chul “solo” Kang and Min-Soo “glow” Kim have mutually terminated their contracts with the South Korean organization, making them free agents.
The duo have been a part of the org since its inception in 2016, with their last appearance being at the Asia Minor for IEM Katowice earlier this year, where they finished fourth after losing to Grayhound and Vici.
With MVP PK, they have had a fairly successful tenure, particularly in 2018 where they won the CSGO Asia Summit and the Zowie eXTREMESLAND 2018. They were also successful in qualifying for ESL Pro League Season 7 finals and IEM Sydney last year.
Entity Gaming have advanced to round 5 of IEM Sydney SEA Open Qualifier taking over BOOM.ID. It was a best of one encounter and it went down 16-14 favouring Entity Gaming on Mirage. Since, it was a single elimination scenario, BOOM.ID has been knocked out of the qualifier. However, another qualifier for IEM Sydney will begin on 19-20 March, later this month.
Before taking down BOOM.ID, Entity has also defeated Signify 16-7 on Mirage. Further in the round 5, Entity will be playing against RRQ`. It would be interesting to see Entity battle against RRQ` as the latter comprises of 29 year-old prodigy Machinegun.
Entity Gaming have advanced to round 4 of IEM Sydney SEA Open Qualifier taking over their regional rivals, Team Signify. It was a best of one encounter and it went down 16-7 favouring Entity Gaming on train. Since, it was a single elimination scenario, Signify has been knocked out of the qualifier. However, another qualifier for IEM Sydney will begin on 19-20 March, later this month.
Before taking down Signify, Entity has also defeated TGC Esports 16-2 on inferno. Further in the round 5, Entity will be playing against BOOM ID. It would be interesting to see Entity battle against BOOM ID aa the latter comprises of 16 year-old prodigy F0rsakeN. On the other hand, Signify advanced to round 4 by defeating Bren Esports 16-11 on overpass.
COBX have announced that Pinda Rika ‘pindaPanda’ Dorji will be hosting the $200,000 USD premier event. Earlier this month, the organisers also revealed that popular CS:GO shout-casters Daniel “DDK” Kapadia and James Bardolph will be attending the COBX Masters. However, COBX is expected to reveal furthermore personalities who would be attending the LAN event.
PindaPanda is a 23 year-old Bhutanese esports personality and a Dota 2 streamer aswell. She is quite popular across South-East Asia for her candid personality and friendly banter. She is also brand ambassador of Fnatic and a host for eGG Network.
COBX Masters will be held from 05-07 April, 2019 at Bombay Exhibition Centre and it will feature two popular esports titles – CS:GO and Dota 2. The whopping prize pool of $200,000 USD is uniformly divided across the two.
The track “EZ4ENCE (kannatuslaulu)” by The Verkkars is at No. 4 on Spotify’s Top 50 for the country of Finland. It has over 46,000 daily plays after it was played when ENCE came to the main stage before their final match against Astralis in IEM Katowice.
Ranked at #40, he is the first non Dota player to hit the mark, with winnings of $1.42 million. He is closely followed by fellow teammate Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen at $1.41 million.
Photo via HLTV
The disparity between Dota and other esports is the huge prize pool offered in each event. While the biggest CS event, the Major has only recently started drawing in a prize pool of a million dollars, Dota has 5 such tournaments this year compared to 2 of CS. The International, one of Esports biggest events, has a whopping prize pool of $25 million.
The number 1 spot is held by Dota veteran Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi, with $4.16M in winnings, ahead of #2, reigning TI champion Johan “n0tail” Sundstein at $3.76 million.
