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Flashpoint CSGO Season 2 announced – details inside

Kanishka Thakur
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Flashpoint CSGO Season 2 announced – details inside

Recently during a FLASHPOINT Q&A on October 1 it was announced that FLASHPOINT CSGO 2 will take place somewhere around November in London, England.

The previous season of this tournament FLASHPOINT 1 was announced as CSGO league wholly owned by the organizations that founded it. It featured a $2 million buy-in for eight teams, with many teams getting in.

FLASHPOINT Founding Members

  • Cloud9
  • c0ntact Gaming
  • Dignitas
  • Team Envy
  • MAD Lions
  • MIBR
  • FunPlus Phoenix

FLASHPOINT 2 is now scheduled to take place in November but surprisingly there might be no qualifiers for the tournament this time.

Christopher “Montecristo” Kjell Mykles confirms that the league may offer direct invites to two teams that will lead to only two will qualify through the open qualifiers.

It was also stated since the Flashpoint CSGO league was to take place in London, the league may not offer qualifiers outside of Europe at all.

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LGD Gaming beat Fnatic to bounce back after shabby Worlds 2020 Play-in performance

Abhishek Bajaj
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LGD Gaming beat Fnatic to bounce back after shabby Worlds 2020 Play-in performance

China has not been doing too well at the League of Legends World Championship 2020. LGD Gaming almost got eliminated during the Play-in stage, losing to the likes of PSG Talon, Unicorns of Love, and Rainbow7 before notching up a win over V3 Esports, pushing the Japanese lineup into elimination in Worlds 2020 Group A.

Their Main Event start wasn’t too bright either, with Gen.G handing them a loss in Group C.

Pitted against Fnatic in their second game of the group, LGD Gaming pulled off an upset of sorts, beating European powerhouse Fnatic with a strong draft and a patient performance.

This marks LGD Gaming’s first win in the Group Stage at Worlds, with the Chinese lineup now set to meet Team Solo Mid in a must-win game to boost their hopes of making it to the knockout stage of the League of Legends World Championship 2020.

Twitch Stars Timthetatman, Autumn win LG Ultragear Valorant Faceoff

Sonu Banerjee
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Twitch Stars Timthetatman, Autumn win LG Ultragear Valorant Faceoff

LG and Tempo Storm partnered up to organize the LG UltraGear Faceoff for Valorant featuring pros from various FPS titles including CSGO, Overwatch, Call of Duty, and Fortnite. The faceoff would decide which of the competitive FPS games could give players the most advantage when transitioning to Valorant.

There were four participating teams in the tournaments with the participants consisting of professional players and popular streamers. The tournament was streamed live on LG’s official Twitch and YouTube channels on October 3rd.

While all of the teams showed excellent performance throughout the tournament, there could only be one winner. In the end, it was Tim “TimTheTatman” Betar and his Team Delta who picked up the title of “Game changer” along with the prize money of $10,000.

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After closing their first match 13-8 against Team Strikers on Bind, Delta smashed through the upper bracket finals against Team Survival with a scoreline of 13-6.

The grand finals weren’t as easy for Team Delta though. The rematch against Team Striker proved to be quite a test of skills for TimTheTatman and his team. Strikers managed to force overtime against Delta but couldn’t convert it into a win. The final scoreline showed 14-12 when Delta was crowned as the winners of the LG UltraGear Faceoff.

Here’s the winning lineup of Team Delta:

Team Delta

  1. Timthetatman
  2. WARDELL
  3. fl0m
  4. Autumn
  5. m0E_tv

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pashaBiceps to make CSGO return; to form Liquid Academy

Abhishek Bajaj
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pashaBiceps to make CSGO return; to form Liquid Academy

Polish Counter-Strike legend Jaroslaw ‘pashaBiceps’ Jarzabkowski is set to make his return as an active CSGO player, according to reports. The CSGO icon had signed up with Team Liquid as a content creator but it seems the organization is ready to facilitate his return to the servers.

The report entails that pashabiceps will spearhead the formation of Team Liquid Academy, with the possibility of the lineup being European and in particular, Polish as Twitter ITK @PolishLeaks state there is a strong chance of the lineup participating in the Polish Esport League.

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pashabiceps has a strong following in the community and his return to competitive CSGO will be a soothing change with what has been going on right now in the scene.

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LG Ultragear Valorant Faceoff – How to watch it

Sonu Banerjee
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LG Ultragear Valorant Faceoff – How to watch it

LG and Tempo Storm have partnered to bring the LG UltraGear Face-off for Riot’s tactical shooter Valorant featuring pros from several other FPS titles like CSGO, Overwatch, Call of Duty, and Fortnite. The tournament will decide which of these games can give players an advantage when switching to Valorant.

Four participating teams have already been announced by LG consisting of professional players and streamers. The teams are listed below.

Team Hero-Shooter

  1. xQcOW
  2. m0xyy
  3. LuvStruck
  4. daltoosh
  5. draynilla

Team Survival

  1. ChicaLive
  2. EmadGG
  3. sinatraa
  4. Morgausse
  5. co1azo

Team Striker

  1. huskerrs
  2. Greekgodx
  3. Shahzam
  4. ploo
  5. jakenbake

Team Delta

  1. Timthetatman
  2. WARDELL
  3. fl0m
  4. Autumn
  5. m0E_tv

How to watch the stream?

Viewers can tune in to the tournament on October 3rd at 1 PM Pacific Time through the official YouTube and Twitch channels of LG. Besides, you can also watch the streams of certain participants in their respective channels to enjoy the game through their POV.

The Prize

The winning team will take home a prize pool of $10,000 and the title of “Game Changer”.

The event is organized to highlight the LG Ultragear monitor 27GN950. Priced at $799.99, the monitor features a 27” 4K UHD screen with a 144 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time, making it an ideal choice for gamers and streamers alike.

xQc Joins Luminosity Gaming

Prateek Jain
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xQc Joins Luminosity Gaming

Canadian Twitch streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel during his latest Twitch stream announced his signing with esports organization Luminosity Gaming as a content creator. Soon after the stream, Luminosity Gaming released a promo video on Twitter to officially announce the signing of xQc.

In the video, xQc can be seen wearing the official jersey of the organization while talking to his fans. In the same video Luminosity also announced the Rising Stars competition with a $100K sponsorship to be won.

Felix is extremely popular on Twitch with 3.6M followers and a concurrent viewership of more than 54K viewers monthly. Before joining Twitch as a full-time stream he used to play Overwatch Professionally have even played in teams like Denial and the Dallas Fuel. Since then he has solely shifted his focus on creating gaming content for entertainment. 

While Felix used to be a professional Overwatch player, Luminosity Gaming has solely signed him to create content for them. While the organization only associates themselves with competitive games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Call of Duty, they won’t force Felix to only stream those games. Luminosity Gaming also plans to have xQc be a judge on the upcoming second season of Twitch’s Rising Stars competition.

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare no longer fits in a 250GB Drive

Prateek Jain
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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare no longer fits in a 250GB Drive

In the past, Activision came under the radar of fans for making their latest Call Of Duty Modern Warfare game a memory hog. With the constant updates since its release, the game has grown from an already massive install size of 175GB to over 200GB when Season 5 update went live. But since the release of Season 6 the size of the game has increased further to the point that a 250GB drive won’t be enough to even install the game.

Yesterday, BattleNonSense shared a screenshot on Twitter about the game asking more than 232GB space to install the update which is the max quantity a good quality 250GB SSD offers. 

Soon after his Tweet went viral another user pointed out that the update that BattleNonSense was unable to install actually reduced the size of the game to 225GB, but since his drive was already at its max capacity that size reduction update refused to install. 

With the release of Call of Duty: MW, Activision decided not to divide the game into separate Single Player and Multiplayer installs. Since COD: MW is a live service game, it received constant updates and a whole new Battle Royale mode added later.

All these updates together swelled up the install size from 175GB at launch to more than 235GB today (225GB after the latest update which reduces install size by 10GB).

Since it is becoming increasingly difficult for players to make space for a game this huge, players have repeatedly requested Activision to split the game into SP, MP, and Warzone installs, similar to how the older COD series games used to do. 

PLAYER1 apologizes for accusing Mika Daime of cheating in Valorant

Sonu Banerjee
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PLAYER1 apologizes for accusing Mika Daime of cheating in Valorant

Filipino content creator Mika Daime found herself amid heavy controversy over the past few days. The Valorant streamer was accused by professional players like Keven “PLAYER1” Champagne and Matt ‘Wardell’ Yu of cheating in the competitive shooter.

The suspicious clip which ignited the allegations soon made their way to social media platforms where the accusations increased further.

When the situation started getting out of hand, Riot decided to intervene. They ran a manual investigation on the issue and the results came out in favor of the streamer.

Normally, we don’t want to add to the publicity of any individual case, but because this one’s getting a little out of hand: Mika is innocent,” a Riot Dev confirmed. “We’ve completed a thorough investigation of Mika’s gameplay, and while the clips might be suspicious individually, we’re confident that cheating software was not utilized for the accused sessions.

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However, fans continued to bash Riot on their decision and continued accusing Daime for aimbot and wallhacks.

It appears like the controversy might come to a halt now, as Gen.G star PLAYER1 himself has apologized to Daime after explaining why he thought she was cheating.

“I didn’t know my words could blow out of proportion like that and I will definitely be more careful onward,” the 25-year-old said in a tweet. “She doesn’t deserve the hate coming to her and I do apologize for that, sorry.”

Also Read | Mika Daime recent Valorant controversy explained

Customary Cheating Has Reached Among Us

Lauren Rasmussen
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Customary Cheating Has Reached Among Us

The biggest problem in any online game or interaction is the inability to control cheaters. The problem in playing with cheaters is that it ruins the fun, moreover, you are left disappointed with the fact, particularly in Among Us, that even in a non-complex game, cheating is inevitable.

We were doing some research past week about the Among Us trends across the world and found people complaining about cheating problems. At first, it could’ve been easily deduced that the best (and the silliest) way to cheat in this game is to reveal who’s the killer, which would mean you’ll want to be in communication capacity with other players. And in today’s world, that’s not a hard ask.

A game like Among Us, which has pretty decent play-style. You’re in a spaceship cruising through the universe with other cremates where one of you have gone rough. There’s literally no fun in cheating or even being a companion to one. I mean all fun in Among Us is in the element of surprise, an art of lying or camouflaging. What’s the point of even discussing who’s the Imposter if it ruins the subjugating effect?

While I was on my research, I read an article by Kotaku, which also discussed the line which has already been crossed. We are not talking about silly cheats anymore. It’s real deal, the hackers have already sabotaged the mechanics. The hackers are killing people at one-go if they’re the chosen one. Moreover, even crew-mates are hacking to discover who’s the Imposter just as the game begins.

Honestly, it makes no sense. The game is being played by millions now, majority of which are through mobile devices. Among Us developers would have never even thought of this incredible feat during the launch. But here we are.

The game’s developer InnerSloth in a conversation with the publication have already mentioned that they’re working on a resolution. Though, it tells us a lot in a metaphorical world of bad fishes and the pond.

CSGO Teams Are Dodging ESIC Coach Ban Verdict

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO Teams Are Dodging ESIC Coach Ban Verdict

Following a long investigation by the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) on abusing the spectator bug in competitive CSGO, 37 coaches have already been banned from renowned esports orgs like ENCE, OG, Heroic, and Hard Legion.

Such a large number of bans after the commencement of only 20% of the investigation has surely caught fans off guard. But it seems like the organizations are sticking with the banned coaches despite the verdict from ESIC.

Team OG announced their support towards their coach Casper “ruggah” Due, in a statement dated September 27th.

“We respect the ESIC decision, and effective immediately Casper will start to fulfill his ban,” OG’s said. “Following the ESIC’s decision, players and staff got together as a team. We decided that Casper deserves a second chance and we want to continue working with him.”

Similarly, other teams like Boom, AGO, and Hard Legion also announced giving their coaches Alessandro “Apoka” Marcucci, Mikołaj “miNIr0x” Michałków, and Sergey “starix” Ischuk a second chance despite their existent ban. However, the last decision was met with some serious criticism due to Ischuk receiving a ten-month ban for repeatedly abusing the spectator bug on multiple occasions.

ALSO READ | Which CSGO Coaches got banned for exploiting the Spectator Bug?

Heroic decided to circumvent the ban by moving their coach Hunden to an analyst role after his ban. ENCE also took a similar decision and moved coach Slaava “Twista” Räsänen as an analyst.

The majority of the investigation is yet to conclude, and it’s almost evident that a significant number of more bans are to come. The ESIC will release a report towards the end of October to provide an update with the investigation.

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