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NRG hires ImAPet as a coach

Pranav Nalawade
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NRG hires ImAPet as a coach

NRG Esports has terminated the contract with British coach Ian “Immi” Harding. Chet “ImAPet” Singh, who previously worked with OpTic Gaming and Counter Logic Gaming, became the new mentor of the brand. Immi, on Twitter, thanked the organization for the opportunity and said that he was ready to consider the proposals as an in-game-leader, coach or analyst.

Immi joined NRG in March 2018. He helped the team take second place in the regular season of ESL Pro League Season 7 and the first in ECS Season 5. With him, NRG won the iBUYPOWER Invitational – Spring 2018. He couldn’t attend LAN-finals of ESL Pro League Season 7 due to Visa issues.

ImAPet coached OpTic Gaming from July 2017 to April 2018. In August Tarik “tari” Celik and Will “RUSH” Wierzba left the team and both of them joined Cloud9. The organization gathered a European team with Adam “friberg” Friberg, ImAPet continued to train the team. With him, OpTic took 5-6th place at Intel Extreme Masters Season XII Oakland and Esports Championship Series Season 4 but did not pass on ELEAGUE Major 2018. In early February, players alternately left the club. On April 24, the organization formed a Danish team, the new coach was Casper “ruggah” Due.

From May 28 to June 3, NRG Esports will perform at the StarSeries i-League Season 5. The prize fund of the tournament is $300,000 USD. In the first match of the group stage, NRG will meet with Team Liquid.

NRG Esports Line-up:

[flag country=”bg”] Tsvetelin “CeRq” Dimitrov

[flag country=”dk”] Damian “daps” Steele

[flag country=”us”] Vincent “Brehze” Cayonte

[flag country=”us”] Ethan “nahtE” Arnold

[flag country=”us”] Jacob “FugLy” Medina

[flag country=”us”] Chet “ImAPet” Singh (coach)

 

 

TyLoo signs AE on loan

Bhavya Shah
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TyLoo signs AE on loan

Few days back, Ke “Mo” Liu fell from a segway (scooter) and got himself injured. Later, he was hospitalized and he was operated for femoral neck fracture. He couldn’t attend StarSeries i-League S5 Qualifier and Lei “bottle” Mao from Eclipse fielded in for Ke “Mo” Liu. TyLoo successfully qualified for StarSeries i-League S5 and secured third-position at CS:GO Asia Championship China Qualifier.

On May 21, TyLoo announced that Yue “AE” Yu from Team Eclipse would play for them until Ke “Mo” Liu fully recovers back. He has been hired on a loan from Team Eclipse for a short span of time. He is an establishing name in the Chinese pro-scene and has a few commendable performances in domestic as well as international circuit.

[flag country=”id”] Hansel “BnTeT” Ferdinand
[flag country=”id”] Kevin “xccurate” Susanto
[flag country=”cn”] Hui “DD” Wu
[flag country=”cn”] HaoWen “somebody” Xu
[flag country=”cn”] Yue “AE” Yu (stand-in)
[flag country=”cn”] Ke “Mo” Liu (benched/injured)

 

All you need to know about CSGO Asia Championship

Bhavya Shah
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All you need to know about CSGO Asia Championship

With Valve’s intention to influence China’s approach to competitive Counter-Strike and bringing it to global levels, Valve will be hosting CSGO Asia Championship (CAC) from June 14 to June 18 where many international teams from around the globe will be participating along with two Chinese teams.

The event will be hosted at Yuanshen Gymnasium, Shanghai, China which can accommodate 12,000 people with a whopping prize pool worth $300,000 USD.

Eight teams, divided into two groups will fight over the span of five days in Shanghai’s indoor gymnasium stadium. CAC will feature double-elimination best-of-three group-stages and the upper-bracket winner would directly move into the semi-finals. It would then follow single-elimination best-of-three playoffs.

CS:GO Asia Championships 2018 – Tournament Information

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Coverage

Format

  • Group Stage: June 14th – 15th, 2018
  • Two double-elimination format (GSL) Groups (4 teams each)
  • All matches are Bo3
  • Top team from each group advances to the Semifinals
  • 2nd & 3rd teams from each group advance to the Quarterfinals
  • Playoffs: June 17th – 18th, 2018
  • Single-Elimination bracket
  • All matches are Bo3

Consequently, five teams and the winner of CS:GO Asia Summit 2018 are directly invited. While the remaining two slots would be filled by the top two teams from the Chinese Qualifier. All teams confirmed at CS:GO Asia Championship are:

  • [flag country=”pl”] Virtus.pro [Invited]

  •  [flag country=”ua”] Natus Vincere [Invited]

  • [flag country=”se”] Ninjas in Pyjamas [Invited]

  • [flag country=”fr”] EnVyUs [Invited]

  • [flag country=”dk”] Heroic [Invited]

  • [flag country=”kr”] MVP PK [CS:GO Asia Summit]

  • [flag country=”cn”] VG.Flash [Chinese Qualifier]

  • [flag country=”cn”] TyLoo [Chinese Qualifier]

*Although Fierce Tiger won the Chinese Qualifier, it has been disqualified soon after Kun “LEo” Hou was handed over the Valve Anti-cheat Ban (VAC). TyLoo, securing the third position in the Chinese Qualifier, is expected to replace LEo and co.

Map pool

Cache-Dust 2-Inferno-Mirage-Train-Overpass-Nuke

Prize Pool

  • 1st Place: $150,000 USD
  • 2nd Place: $60,000 USD
  • 3rd-4th Place: $30,000 USD
  • 5th-6th Place: $10,000 USD
  • 7th-8th Place: $5,000 USD

CS:GO Asia Championship will be hosted by PGL alongside Perfect World. All the matches at CSGO Asia Championship 2018 will be broadcasted live on the respective streams of PGL and Perfect World.

Chinese CSGO pro Kun “LEo” Hou handed VAC

Bhavya Shah
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Chinese CSGO pro Kun “LEo” Hou handed VAC

Kun “LEo” Hou, with 1.22 HLTV rating, used to be a rising name in the Chinese Counter-Strike. Kun “LEo” Hou was handed a VAC Ban this Saturday by Valve Anti-cheat alongside Perfect World. 5ewin, a popular matchmaking platform in China has also banned LEo for cheating. He used to play for a well-known Chinese team, Fierce Tiger. Perfect World, through it’s official Weibo handle, revealed that they would further investigate for any other misconduct.

On May 17, his side won the Chinese qualifiers for CS:GO Asia Championship 2018 by beating VG.Flash 2-0 in the best-of-three finals. Being the top seed, Fierce Tiger has been disqualified due to the VAC ban handed over to Kun “LEo” Hou. Further, he has been permanently banned from participating in any of the Perfect World or Valve-sponsored events. TyLoo, which secured third position at the CS:GO Asia Championship 2018 Chinese Qualifier is likely to replace Fierce Tiger.

Fierce Tiger is playing the Chinese Qualifier for the Asian Minor and it has already defeated ROAR 2-0 in the best-of-three semi-finals. On 20 May, Fierce Tiger was matched up against VG.Flash in the best-of-three finals for a slot at the Asian Minor. Although VG.Flash did not appear on the server due to ‘internet issues’, sources close to the team suggest that VG.Flash suspected ‘foul play’ since an unpopular player named “tbgirl” took LEo’s place in Fierce Tiger. FACEIT has already been notified about the VAC ban but necessary action hasn’t been taken by the organizers.

Fierce Tiger line-up:

[flag country=”cn”] Kun “LEo” Hou

[flag country=”cn”] Bin “Savage” Liu

[flag country=”cn”] QingYu “Monster” Deng

[flag country=”cn”] Zhen “HZ” Huang

[flag country=”cn”] BingYuan “tb” Li

[flag country=”cn”] “tbgirl” (Stand-in)

shroud, n0thing, seangares, lurppis and Fifflaren teamed up

The Crew
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shroud, n0thing, seangares, lurppis and Fifflaren teamed up

On 18th of April, Michael “shroud” Grzesiek’s contract with Cloud 9 officially ended. Few days back, he hinted on his stream that he would play ESEA Open matches since alot of people love to see him play Counter-Strike. Tomi “lurppis” Kovanen created a team on ESEA named Old Guys Club (OGC) and shroud was seen in the roster.

On August 15, 2017, Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert retired from the professional Counter-Strike scene. Since then, he has been passionately streaming on Twitch. Being a legend in the North-American scene, he needs no introduction. He has played for Cloud 9 since the organization’s entry into Counter-Strike. He has achieved a lot of commendable achievements including first place at ESL Pro League – Season 4, iBUYPOWER Invitational 2016 – Summer, Esports Championship Series – Season 3 and CyberPower PC Summer 2016 Pro Series.

Sean “seang@res” Gares is one of the finest and intelligent in-game-leader, North-American Counter-Strike has ever had. Sean “seang@res” Gares has played alongside Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert and Michael “shroud” Grzesiek during Cloud 9’s 2015 era. Recently, he was seen analyzing few premier tournaments including ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. During his tenure in Misfits, as an in-game-leader, he has secured first place at CyberPowerPC Extreme Gaming Series – Fall 2017 Invitational and Americas Minor Championship – Boston 2018: NA Last Chance Qualifier.

Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson is one of the oldest legends of this game. He was a crucial part of NiP’s 87-0 winning streak during 2016. He has won majority of the prominent Counter-Strike tournaments during the early days of newborn Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Credits: ESEA website

This mix line-up would be playing ESEA Open and as of now, they aren’t signed by any organization.

Line-up:

[flag country=”se”] Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson

[flag country=”us”] Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert

[flag country=”ca”] Michael “shroud” Grzesiek

[flag country=”fi”] Tomi “lurppis” Kovanen

[flag country=”us”] Sean “seang@res” Gares

Invites and dates for FACEIT Minors revealed

The Crew
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Invites and dates for FACEIT Minors revealed

Two months back, it was revealed that FACEIT will be hosting the 13th Valve sponsored major. FACEIT has revealed the dates for FACEIT Minors alongside invites for the CIS and Asian minor through it’s Twitter handle. Each of the regional minors would be held at Twickenham Stadium, London, owned and managed by Rugby Football Union (RFU). The FACEIT regional minors would begin in the second week of July.

  • American Minor (Both NA & SA): 7-11 July

  • CIS Minor: 10-13 July

  • Asian Minor (Including Oceania): 16-20 July

  • Asian Minor (Including Oceania): 16-20 July

Invites for Asian minor: 

[flag country=”cn”] TyLoo

[flag country=”us”] Renegades

Invites for CIS minor:

[flag country=”eu”] Hellraisers

[flag country=”ru”] ForZe

[flag country=”kz”] AVANGAR

[flag country=”by”] Nemiga Gaming

[flag country=”eu”] FlipSid3 Tactics

[flag country=”ru”] Spirit

[flag country=”ru”] EPG

[flag country=”ua”] Pro100

FACEIT will be hosting everything from open qualifiers, minors and the major itself. “By hosting each stage of the tournament at Twickenham Stadium we’re hoping to bring new life to the Minors,” said Michele Attisani, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of FACEIT.

Top two teams from four regional minors would be invited to the FACEIT Minor Closed Qualifiers. These eight teams would compete with eight other invited teams for one of the eight slots at the FACEIT Major Challenger Stage and $50,000 USD. The open qualifiers for the FACEIT Regional Minors would be held between May 14 and June 17 on FACEIT’s matchmaking platform.

 

Digital Chaos signs pronax and co

Pranav Nalawade
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Digital Chaos signs pronax and co

The North American organization, Digital Chaos (DC) has signed contracts with players of the Swedish mix lineup, Enyoy. The team includes Markus “pronax” Wallsten, Mikail “Maikelele” Bill, Jacob “pyth” Mourujärvi, Aleksandar “jayzaR” Zarkovic and Mattias “bENNY” Rosback.

The team had participated in the open qualifiers for the IEM Season XII – World Championship, DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018, ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018, DreamHack Austin 2018, ESL One Cologne 2018 and DreamHack Valencia 2018, but they didn’t qualify.

Between 2013-2015, Markus “pronax” Wallsten had played for Fnatic. During his tenure in Fnatic, he won three majors – Dreamhack Winter 2013, ESL One Katowice 2015 and ESL One Cologne 2015 as the in-game-leader of the team. In early 2016, he assembled a mix of Team Ancient, and in April he founded the GODSENT organization alongside RFRSH Entertainment. In August 2017, Wallsten left the team and went into inactivity.

In 2014, Mikail “Maikelele” Bill played for Ninjas in Pajamas, wherein they secured second place at DreamHack Winter 2014. In May 2015, he joined an international squad, Team Kinguin along with Adil “ScreaM” Benrilthom. Later that team played for G2 Esports and FaZe Clan. In April 2016, Bill left the team, and in 2017, he represented Team Dignitas and Red Reserve.

Jacob “pyth” Mourujärvi was bound by a contract with NiP from December 2015 to May 2017. In mid-2016, he took a break from the competitive Counter-Strike due to a wrist injury. Later on, he was replaced by William “draken” Sundin. With the Swedish club, Mourujärvi won DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 and Intel Extreme Masters Season XI Oakland.

Aleksandar “jayzaR” Zarkovic and Mattias “bENNY” Rosback are the young representatives of the Swedish pro-scene. The former played for Fnatic Academy and Team5 while the latter played for the Crowns Esports Club.

Digital Chaos was founded in August 2015. The organization is quite popular for it’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Rainbow Six: Siege rosters. Previously, their Dota 2 lineup along with Resolut1on secured second place at The International 2016. Now, DC is all set to enter Counter-Strike pro-scene with an all-Swedish lineup.

Digital Chaos consists of –

[flag country=”se”] Mikail “Maikelele” Bill

[flag country=”se”] Markus “pronax” Wallsten

[flag country=”se”] Aleksandar “jayzaR” Zarkovic

[flag country=”se”] Mattias “bENNY” Rosback

[flag country=”se”] Jacob “pyth” Mourujärvi

 

FaZe claims IEM Sydney 2018

Pranav Nalawade
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FaZe claims IEM Sydney 2018

The European superteam has won the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney pretty convincingly after taking down Astralis 3-0 in the best-of-five grand-finals. FaZe picked up Cache and Train whereas Astralis chose to play Overpass and Inferno. Dust II was left over. FaZe Clan won the whopping sum of $100,000 USD securing the first place followed by Astralis, Mousesports and TyLoo respectively.

Astralis secured the finals-spot by qualifying from the upper-bracket and defeating mousesports in the best-of-three semi-finals. On the contrary, FaZe Clan came along all the way from the lower-bracket by defeating Fnatic and TyLoo in quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.

Cache is basically one of the strongest map of the FaZe Clan. Eventually, it went down to overtime and Finn “karrigan” Anderson clucthed an insane post-plant 1vs2 against Nicolai “device” Reedtz and Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen to clinch the first map.

The second map was Overpass, Astralis’ pick, which FaZe Clan won in the second overtime after a nail-biting encounter and Emil “Magisk” Reif trying pretty hard to carry his side with fourty-bombs.

Astralis went on to a good start in the third map by securing it 11-4 on CT side in the first half of Train. Danish in-game-leader Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander had 23 kills in the first-half itself but nonetheless, they lost it 16-14.

 

IEM Sydney 2018 final standings:

1st. [flag country=”eu”] FaZe Clan – $100,000 USD

2nd. [flag country=”dk”] Astralis – $42,000 USD

3-4th. [flag country=”cn”] TyLoo – $20,000 USD

3-4th. [flag country=”eu”] mousesports – $20,000 USD

5-6th. [flag country=”se”] Fnatic – $10,000 USD

5-6th. [flag country=”us”] Renegades – $10,000 USD

7-8th. [flag country=”us”] Cloud 9 – $6,000 USD

7-8th. [flag country=”fr”] G2 Esports – $6,000 USD

9-12th. [flag country=”us”] NRG – $5,000 USD

9-12th. [flag country=”kr”] MVP.PK – $5,000 USD

9-12th. [flag country=”au”] Grayhound – $5,000 USD

9-12th. [flag country=”au”] ORDER – $5,000 USD

13-16th. [flag country=”au”] Legacy – $4,000 USD

13-16th. [flag country=”br”] SK Gaming – $4,000 USD

13-16th. [flag country=”sg”] B.O.O.T-d[S] – $4,000 USD

13-16th. [flag country=”au”]  Cheifs – $4,000 USD

 

 

TyLoo progresses to the playoffs, SK drops out

Deepak Ojha
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TyLoo progresses to the playoffs, SK drops out

Intel Extreme Masters, Sydney 2018 opened the doors of the $250,000 today. The second installment of the event had a quite interesting start of the day. While the first group had its results coming, the remaining group will begin its battle in the following days.

The first group which features heavyweights as FaZe, C9 & SK, failed to go with the odds as all of them plummeted in the upper brackets. Group A matches were:

Tyloo held their ground tight

TyLoo, the underdogs and the Asian pride held their grounds high as they beat SK 19-16 in their first game. Although it took irregular extraordinary rounds to conclude a result. TyLoo came out on top. In their second game, the Chinese went head-on against Cloud9, again one of the top teams.

This time around though, they were able to beat the North American side twice consecutively with a standby map in a best of three.

Disappointment from the Brazilians

As of the current scenario, SK Gaming has been knocked out of the ongoing tournament. Whereas, Cloud9 and FaZe are battling it out to escape the elimination. The disappointed SK couldn’t survive the lower brackets. They lost 1-2 in the best of three survival match against Grayhound, a regional lineup.

SK has had a rough time regaining their top spot following lineup alterations. Cloud9 too was the victim of the same, and since then, both the teams have lost their spots in the top five teams in the world. While Cloud9 still remains in the race, SK has been driven out and labeled a depressing 13th-16th spot at IEM Sydney 2018.

IEM Sydney Highlights – Day 1

What to look around for at IEM Sydney 2018 – Viewers Guide

Pranav Nalawade
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What to look around for at IEM Sydney 2018 – Viewers Guide

Intel Extreme Masters, Sydney 2018 is about to begin in a few days, with the world’s best CS:GO teams coming together in Australia for another weekend of the highest level of competitive Counter-Strike.

With a $250,000 prize pool, IEM will host six-day, 16-team tournament to determine who’s top dog in the upper echelon of Counter-Strike. Similiar to many past tournaments, IEM will feature a GSL format group stage and an eight-team single elimination bracket on the first three days of May, 2018.

IEM Sydney 2018 – Tournament Information

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IEM Sydney 2018

Coverage

Format

There are two groups with eight teams in each, and every group is seemingly more competitive than the last. The groups are shown below from Group A to B, with the matchups and the times displayed next to each game.

Group A

  • FaZe Clan vs. ORDER

  • Legacy vs. Renegades

  • Cloud9 vs. Grayhound

  • Tyloo vs. SK Gaming

Group B

  • Mousesports vs. B.O.O.T-d[S]

  • NRG Esports vs. Astralis

  • G2 Esports vs. MVP PK

  • Chiefs ESC vs. Fnatic

Among the groups, Group A is arguably the more stacked one among the two, with FaZe Clan, Cloud9, TyLoo, and SK Gaming fighting for two playoff spots. Teams that are expected to survive the initial stage include FaZe, Cloud9, and SK Gaming. Group B, however, is the hardest to predict, as all eight teams have a good chance to qualify for the playoffs.

The tournament will be pivotal for a number of teams since many of roasters underwent major roster changes after IEM Katowice in February. FaZe Clan, Cloud9 and SK Gaming made major changes to their lineups, and their performance may be stunted by individual role transitions within their team compositions. Whoever reigns victorious at IEM SYDNEY 2018 will be Counter-Strike’s best, as all of the teams have had ample of time to refine their roster cohesion and tactics.

Map pool 

Cache-Dust 2-Inferno-Mirage-Train-Overpass-Nuke

Talent Lineup

All matches at IEM Sydney 2018 will be streamed live on Twitch starting on May 1st.

More information on the IEM SYDNEY 2018 can be found on IEM’s website, and this article will be updated as more details are released

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