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TSM has struck the entire esports industry in awe as the highly renowned esports organization has acquired a chess prodigy to their ranks. Hikaru Nakamura is a professional chess grandmaster with and a five-time national champion who will be the first chess player to get signed by TSM.

Hikaru Nakamura is considered as one of the best chess player on the planet. He started his chess career from a very early age and at age 15 he became the youngest American to earn the title of grandmaster. Hikaru has been rising since then, competiting at the pinnacle of chess and ranking number one in rapid and blitz chess, surpassing Magnus Carlsen in the process.

Hikaru is not only a professional chess player, but also a hotshot on Twitch. He is a big name on streaming platform Twitch, having more than 500,000 followers and thousands of concurrent viewers watching and learning from his streams. He is mostly seen playing online chess by himself or explaining intricate details about his strategic gameplay.

Team Solomid is a professional esports organization based in United States with active rosters competing in ten titles, now including chess. TSM has always been one of the powerhouse when it comes to esports. Their League of Legends roster have a well-established fanbase and the new acquired VALORANT lineup is considered to be among the best in the world.

TSM has already expanded their reach in other Esports genres as well. They started up by partnering with one Indian organization named Entity Gaming to form a new team playing under TSM-Entity banner in PUBG Mobile, representing the brand in the rising mobile esports.

The normal over-the-board chess games are transformed into its digital counterparts due to world pandemic. Websites like chess.com have replaced indoor game as the official tournaments being are held online. Entering into traditional sports, TSM has moved one step closer to blending in the sports and esports culture together. Chess is an ancient competitive game and entering into its competition with one of the best player on the planet is indeed a smart move by TSM.

Fortnite star Turner “Tfue” Tenney and FaZe clan have finally settled their ongoing lawsuit which lasted for more than a year.

The lawsuit was launched in May 2019 by Tfue claiming that FaZe had been withholding his share of money from him and taking huge cuts from his earnings, which the organization later denied. Months later, in August 2019, FaZe countersued Tfue and alleged that he had violated his contract with the clan by attempting to form a rival organization.

A year later, on 26th August, court filings indicate that both Tfue and FaZe have agreed to dismiss the ongoing lawsuit.

Tfue’s attorney and a FaZe clan spokesperson sent a joint statement to The Hollywood Reporter. The statement reads, “FaZe Clan and Turner Tenney are pleased to announce that they have resolved their disputes and settled their litigations. The parties wish one another the best of luck in future endeavors.”

This dispute between Tfue and FaZe can easily be termed as one of the biggest employment lawsuits in esports. Even though the dispute is now settled, it’s still unclear if they will work together anytime soon.

World Cricket Championship 2- WCC2 is voted as number one app in gaming category of AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge. WCC2 is leading in the people’s choice awards polls grabbing the 74% of the total votes.

World Cricket Championship 2 is published by Nextwave Multimedia with more than 50 million downloads on Google Play Store. WCC-2 won the people’s choice award in gaming category by collecting a total of 6607 votes out of total 8908 votes. The game grabbed the lion’s share of 74% of total votes as compared to runner ups.

Hitwicket™ Superstars – 3D Cricket Strategy Game ranked second with 1169 votes and ScarFall: The Royale Combat ranked third with 1132 votes. Both of these games own 13% of total casted votes.

World Cricket Championship 2 is a 3D mobile cricket game with a large variety of features. The game claims to included maximum number of cricket shots in-game. The publishers have already launched a beta version of their next title named World Cricket Championship 3.

WCC2 grabbed two more awards, ranking second in Overall People’s Choice Award and third in Game Category Jury Award.

About AatmaNirbhar Bharat Challenge:

The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology partnered up with Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Aayog to launch Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge back in July 2020.

According to the official website, the challenge was launched to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world class apps in their respective categories. This Innovation Challenge with various cash awards and incentives of featuring Apps on Leader Boards seeks to create an ecosystem where Indian entrepreneurs and Startups are incentivised to ideate, incubate, build, nurture and sustain Tech solutions that can serve not only citizens within India but also the world.

The town of Kenosha, Wisconsin has been the witness to repeated protests recently after the Black Lives Matter movement shook the city following the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer.

However, things swiftly took a violent turn when rioters seized this opportunity to destroy and loot parts of the city. The Gravity Gaming Lounge located in the town wasn’t ignored by the rioters, as they proceeded to destroy and loot the business, forcing them to shut down as mentioned in a Facebook post by them on August 25th.

“We spent most of today looking at the damage and everything stolen and evaluating our business decision,” the post said. “Cleaning and getting what was remaining out and boarding up to protect the building from further harm”

The estimated damages caused was assumed to be $20,000 for the doors, window and interior repairs and another $20,000 for operating equipment, which according to them included 8 Xbox one S and 8 PS4 pros. All of these equipment was stolen by the rioters as well as another $10,000 worth of video game collections. Besides all these, 8 monitors were damaged beyond repair, 2 PC setups and 2 Nintendo Switches were also entirely stolen by the mob.

“It brings us to tears to see all the support flooding in from our customers and the community,” the Facebook post continued. “For those that messaged us we will eventually respond it’s just been a heart wrecking day to see something we fought for just taken from us.”

Gravity Gaming Lounge has denied to take any donations from people, “the last thing we want to do with our given times is take something that someone else is more deserving of in this time.” They mentioned that they’ll be sorting things out with their insurance company over the next month.

Spotify has signed its first global paid sponsorship deal with Riot Games’ League of Legends, one of the renowned MOBA games across the world with a huge player base and a giant esports scene revolving around it.

According to a Variety report, this deal will give Spotify exclusive rights to provide audio services to League of Legends, consequently attracting its huge player count to the music streaming service.

“Gamers are soundtracking their experiences with audio tracks,” June Sauvaget – Spotify’s global head consumer and product marketing – said. “There’s overlap between audiences, but in the Venn diagram there’s white space on both sides.”

League of Legends has shined as one of the biggest esport titles in the world for several years now, with a player count more than any other MOBA. The Worlds Championship for League has set records on the streaming platform Twitch in terms of viewer count. Worlds 2019 rocked an average viewer count of 21.8 million, a number that’s certainly enough to attract heavy sponsors for the game. On Spotify, League of Legends’ tracks are listened to approximately 5 million times per month.

Under this deal, Spotify will receive an in-game banner which will be shown on stream during League of Legends’ tournaments.