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mousesports benched chrisJ and STYKO

Parth Gada
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mousesports benched chrisJ and STYKO

In a move that will come as a shock to many, Mousesports have announced that they have relieved the services of Martin “STYKO” Styk and Chris “chrisJ” de Jong from the active roster, along with coach Sergey “lmbt” Bezhanov.

The announcement comes on the back of a horrendous showing at the Europe Minor for the IEM Katowice Major where they missed out on a major spot by going out in the group stage. They had also had a 0-3 drubbing at the FACEIT Major last year, causing one of the biggest upsets in the tournament.

“Parting ways after one and a half years and 19 offline tournaments is not easy, but sometimes a few steps back can be multiple steps forward. There are no hard feelings or any bad blood inside the team, we just drove ourselves into a situation we couldn’t get out of and something had to change,” suNny said in a statement for mousesports.

“It was the most successful run for all of us and I hope that this will change the careers of all of us for the better. Thank you guys for everything. Looking forward to a new and fresh chapter now, where we can be consistent contenders for titles again.”

The move may come as a shock for chrisJ, who was one of the more consistent players of the team, and has been in the organisation since 2013. As for Styko, he again saw himself at the end of the firing line after he had already been replaced and brought back late last year.

Related: Why you won’t see mousesports for the First time ever in a CSGO Major

The move also sees the departure of coach Imbt who had been in the organisation for the past 2 and a half years. The focus will now be on finding the new players and support staff to assist the core of suNny, oskar and ropz.

Under the leader of Chris, Mouz had rebuilt following the departure of star player niko and became a consistent top 5 team, winning the ESL One New York and StarLadder i-League Season 4 among numerous other top 4 standings. The move certainly reinforces the fact that nothing at all is permanent in CSGO.

PUBG gamer commits suicide after family disallowed purchase of high-end premium phone

Abhishek Dave
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PUBG gamer commits suicide after family disallowed purchase of high-end premium phone

Mumbai, India: A nineteen-year-old boy committed suicide after he was refused a new phone. The PUBG enthusiast had argument with his family members. According to the local police, Nadeem Sheikh, worked as a sales executive at a company and lived with his wife, a kid, brother, and mother.

The argument was reportedly over a phone priced at INR 37,000. The elder brother of Nadeem had offered him INR 20,000 after much argument. After the argument, close to 02:00 AM the family went to sleep, leaving Nadeem playing games on his phone. The brother got up at 04:00 AM to go to washroom to find Nadeem’s body hung at the ceiling.

Police has registered an accidental death case and the investigation is on.

Why you won’t see mousesports for the First time ever in a CSGO Major

Bhavya Shah
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Why you won’t see mousesports for the First time ever in a CSGO Major

In what came as a setback for the European juggernaut, mousesports were eliminated from IEM Major: Katowice 2019, earlier this month. Mousesports has been showing tremendous form since quite some time with decent finishes at tier 1 LAN tournaments, although the squad couldn’t get past the likes of Valiance, twice.

The German organization has managed to retain itself within the top five positions in HLTV’s global ranking backed by decent outings, excluding the Europe Minor.

EU Closed Qualifier

Mousesports qualified for Europe Minor through the Europe Closed Qualifier. ChrisJ and co. qualified directly into upper-brackets, although they couldn’t get past the Minor. Mousesports lost the group A opening match against Valiance. It was a nail-biting encounter but the latter got the better off, despite ChrisJ’s 32 frags in the regulation. The opener was a lackluster outing for mouz firepower – Ropz & suNny.

Picture courtesy: HLTV.org

On the following day, mouz encountered OpTic Gaming in the elimination match in a best-of-three scenario. Mouz concluded the match within two maps while the ‘Green Wall’ was sent packing. Mousesports lived to fight another day.

The German organization again faced Valiance in the decider match of group A. The decider didn’t go well for mousesports as Valiance won train and cache. Train eventually went into Valiance’s bag 16-12, although, mousesports made a commendable effort. On the contrary, Cache was a one-sided affair favouring Valiance 16-8. Eventually, mouz was eliminated with merely 5th-6th position at the Europe Minor.

This was quite a big blow for the mouz squad. Ever since ESL One: Cologne 2015, this is the first time that the ChirsJ led line-up wouldn’t appear at a Valve sponsored major.

Unfortunately, the community will miss mouz stickers in the Steam Store throughout the major. Regardless of the major, mousesports has had decent results with this line-up. Triumph at ESL One: New York 2018 & StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 4 depict their impressive outings throughout the season.

Smooya steps down from BIG, to be replaced by Nex

Parth Gada
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Smooya steps down from BIG, to be replaced by Nex

BIG have announced that Owen “smooya” Butterfield will be replaced on the active roster by Johannes “nex” Maget, who is set to return to return to the active roster after a month.

In a statement, BIG’s Head of CS, Nikola “LEGIJA” Ninić, explained that the difference in plays style was the reason for his departure.

“Its not always easy if you are the only foreigner in a team. We had some different opinions on how to approach the game and team development and it turned out that his and the teams not align. I’m sure that he is a great addition to any top team and I personally and the whole BIG family wishes him all the best in his future endeavors,” he said.

Nex, who has been out of the active roster since December owing to a wrist injury that could have potentially sidelined him for a while, was replaced by Turkish ace Ismailcan “XANTARES” Dörtkardeş.

The 26-year-old, however, did not require surgery for his procedure, and keeping this in mind the German Organisation registered him as a player/coach for the IEM Katowice Major, making him eligible for the tournament, as a swap between a coach and player is allowed once.

Smooya will be remembered in his 10-month tenure as giving a new vigor and hope to German CS, after having helped BIG reach the Finals of ESL One Cologne and a Legends Status at the FACEIT Major, as well as maintain a consistent top 10 ranking in the world.

“I had a long think about not wanting to hold this team back, I think they already have an insane system that just needs a little bit more work and they will become a standout top five team in the world, but, sadly, I don’t think I’ll ever fit into this system simply because of playstyles. There is no bad blood between anybody in the team, I just think personally they would be better with another player to do my role, as I’ve never really had the MAIN AWP role since being here. I had different visions of the environment that would be here for me at BIG in-game,” Smooya said.

BIG now have:

[flag=de] Fatih “gob b” Dayik

[flag=de] Johannes “tabseN” Wodarz

[flag=de] Tizian “tiziaN” Feldbusch

[flag=tr]Ismailcan “XANTARES” Dörtkardeş

[flag=de] Johannes “nex” Maget

[flag=at] Alexander “kakafu” Szymanczyk (coach)

[flag=gb] Owen “smooya” Butterfield (benched)

 

Photo: HLTV.org

Astralis invited to Blast Pro Series Sao Paulo

Parth Gada
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Astralis invited to Blast Pro Series Sao Paulo

Astralis have been announced as the 2nd team to be invited for the Blast Pro Series, to take place from March 22-23.

The Blast Pro Series is an invite-only tournament consisting of 6 top tier teams fighting for the majority of the $250,000 prize pool. The Sao Paolo edition is the first of 8 this year, with cities like Madrid and Miami being considered as well.


Local favorites MIBR were the first team to be invited in December and will look to use the home support to fight off competition form Astralis, who are the reigning champions of the Lisbon edition of the tournament held last year.

The other 4 teams are yet to be invited and will be revealed in the coming days.

With this, the lineup looks as follows:

  • [flag=br] MIBR
  • [flag=dk] Astralis
  • Invite #3
  • Invite #4
  • Invite #5
  • Invite #6

Esports is Like ‘Knitting’ says German Esports Official

Abhishek Dave
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Esports is Like ‘Knitting’ says German Esports Official

The German Olympic Sports Confederation has maintained its against welcoming esports for Olympic occasions, referring to a Hesse Interior and Sports Minister as a major aspect of their choice. That serve says ‘esports are as meager a game as sewing’, and is against financing esports organizations in Germany.

That opinion isn’t exclusive to the German Olympic Sports Confederation. Hesse Interior and Sports Minister, Peter Beuth, agreed: “Esports are as little sport as knitting and recorder play,” said Beuth. “We must not allow the e-gaming industry to collect these sports assets. The idea that the E-gaming industry is vying for funding, I think is absurd.”

“Esports does not exist. And it will not be included in the Olympic program, “said Alfons Hörmann, president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation.

This proclamation on esports came during the New Year reception for the German Olympic Sports Confederation, and doubled down from their previous statements in December.

Content fetched from Unikrn, no editorial team was a part of this story.

11-year-old kid from Maharashtra requests Government to ban PUBG

Satendra Krishna
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11-year-old kid from Maharashtra requests Government to ban PUBG

A four-page letter written by 11-year-old Ahad to the Government and other six offices requests a ban on the online game, PUBG. The reason of request was mentioned that the game promotes ‘immoral conduct, violence and murder.’

The appellate still seeks a response from the authority. Ahad, has furthered his intentions after now getting a response and has decided to file a Public Interest Litigation in the Bombay High Court.

Other than Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ministry of Electronics & IT, the letter has been marked to Education Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Vinod Tawde. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Devendra Fadnavis is also a receipt of the appeal by Ahad.

PUBG is an internet sensation in India. Millions of users play this game online every day. The game has garnered such attention that even Prime Minister of India, Shree Narendra Modi recently acknowledged the popularity of the game at a conference.

 

IEM Katowice 2019 CS:GO Major team list confirmed

Bhavya Shah
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IEM Katowice 2019 CS:GO Major team list confirmed

IEM Katowice 2019 Regional Minors and Minor play-in have ultimately concluded with all ups and downs. Regional Minors included top eight teams from each region – America, Europe, CIS & Asia-Oceania. While the Minor play-in comprised of #3 teams from each Minor which competed in a double-elimination scenario for two slots at the IEM Katowice – Challengers Stage.

RESULTS:-

America Minor:

  • NRG Esports
  • Furia Esports

Asia-Oceania Minor:

  • Renegades
  • Grayhound Gaming

CIS Minor:

  • AVANGAR
  • Team Spirit

Europe Minor:

  • ENCE eSports
  • Team Vitality

Minor play-in:

  • Winstrike Team
  • ViCi Gaming

These ten teams will fight against 9th-14th placed teams at FACEIT Major: London 2018; the returning challengers:

  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • Fnatic
  • G2 Esports
  • Vega Squadron
  • Cloud9
  • TyLoo

IEM Katowice 2019 – Challengers Stage will begin on February 13 and it’ll span over the period of next four days.

Out of the sixteen teams in IEM Katowice 2019 – Challengers Stage, top eight teams will proceed to Legends Stage where they will battle against 1st-8th placed teams at FACEIT Major: London 2018; the current legends:

  • Astralis
  • Natus Vincere
  • Team Liquid
  • MIBR
  • BIG
  • compLexity Gaming
  • HellRaisers
  • FaZe Clan

Eight teams from Legends Stage will advance to Champions Stage.

All the matches will be streamed live on Twitch and it’ll follow the revamped ‘Swiss format’.

 

Signify, ROG Titans Invited to ESL One Mumbai Closed Qualifiers

Parth Gada
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Signify, ROG Titans Invited to ESL One Mumbai Closed Qualifiers

Signify and ROG Titans have been invited for the closed qualifier of the inaugural edition of ESL One Mumbai. The event will take place from April 19-21 at the NSCI Dome with a prize pool of $300,000.

The event is set to consist of 12 teams with 7 direct invites. Five teams to be decided through qualifiers; with one slot each from North America, Europe, SEA, China, and India.

Qualifiers will consist of four teams. Of which two are invited and the other two will make their ways to the closed qualifier through an open qualifier featuring best-of-one match-up. The closed qualifier will be a double elimination, best of 3 match. The finals, however, will be a best of 5 with a 1-0 advantage to the team from the upper bracket.

Signify
Via ESL

Signify and ROG TiTans are arguably the two best teams of the country, with the two fighting neck and neck. Although Signify have the edge, having beaten TiTans twice in the finals of the Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup and the ESL India Premiership 2018 Fall Season, the TiTans will use this opportunity to stake their claim to be the best Indian DotA squad.

For more information regarding Open Qualifier click here

Photo: By Helena Kristiansson for ESL

“PUBG Wala Hai Kya” asks Prime Minister Modi to a worried Mother during Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0

Parth Gada
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“PUBG Wala Hai Kya” asks Prime Minister Modi to a worried Mother during Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0

As the craze for PUBG Mobile in India is getting more and more people hooked on to their mobile screens, it seems to have caught the attention of the Prime Minister himself.

It was just a regular session of Pariksha pe Charcha 2.0, where the Prime Minister was addressing several students and parents regarding the way they should approach their studies ahead of the exam season, when a concerned parent of a class IX student raised the issue of her son being distracted by studies and instead spending a lot of time on Online Games, to which she sought a solution from the PM.

The PM light heartedly replied “PUBG wala hai kya?” to which the entire auditorium laughed as the PM put forth his point of keeping things in balance.

“Ye samasya bhi hai, samadhaan bhi hai, hum chahe hamare bachhe technology se door chale jayen, fir toh vo ek prakar se piche jana shuru ho jaenge” (Technology is a solution as well as a problem, we want our children to be away from technology but in a way if we do so, it will be regressive).

Modi continued by stressing that parents should encourage the use of technology, and bring up conversations about it on the breakfast table with their kids, so that they feel like their parents are trying to help them. He warned, though, that technology could often make people narrow-minded in their thoughts.

PUBG in 2018 has caused a huge spike in Online Gaming, and mobile gaming in particular. India has the 3rd most downloads for PUBG Mobile in the world, and the game itself has over 100 million downloads, taking the 2nd spot for the most downloaded game on ios.

Its not that people just play the game, they watch it in huge numbers too. Many YouTube channels like CosmicYT, Kronten Gaming, Dynamo Gaming, Mortal etc have risen out of the blue in 2018 owing to huge views on their live streams. One of them, Dynamo Gaming, gained a staggering 1 million subscribers in just 3 months.

The game has become so popular among Indians that it has found itself among mainstream esports, with prize pools reaching an unprecedented Rs 1 crore, with sponsors like Oppo being roped in. No wonder the Prime Minister has taken cognisance as this game is growing day by day.

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