Hypebit$, a Mobile Legends: Bang Bang streamer from Phillipines has tested positive for COVID-19. He breaks down while announcing this on his official Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Bitoy “Hypebit$” Ferrer declared that he has tested positive to the novel coronavirus and he suspects that may have caught the virus while grocery shopping.
Hypebit$ is a famous Mobile Legends:Bang Bang streamer with 1.2 Million followers on Facebook where he mostly streams and 300k subscribers on YouTube. He recently posted a video where he confirms that he is infected by the virus by presenting some medical reports. The details explained in the video are not clear as he is talking in his native language but he looks devastated by this news.
The streamer got very emotional at the end of this video and almost cried. He posted on Facebook that auto-translates to “I hope there is a purify in real life”. To those who are unfamiliar with the game, purify is a skill that removes all negative effects casted on a hero in Mobile Legends and is used as a metaphorical reference here.
Weeks ago, a family made it to the headlines when a mother claimed that her son had spent a whopping $20,000 for donations to Twitch streamers. The mother shared the story through a Reddit post on July 18th. The (now deleted) Reddit post saw many people who had undergone similar situations coming forward to aid the family with helpful advice on how they could get their money back. The post went viral in no time and had over 1.2k comments to it.
The mother of the teenage boy reportedly claimed to have lost “years of savings” in just a matter of 17 days. The donations were made out to popular Twitch faces like Tfue and Gorb.
However, on August 7th, a Dotesport report stated that the family had recovered most of the $20,000 losses which they suffered from the donations made by the son.
The mother successfully received the refund after she contacted Xsolla – a paying service company that’s partnered with Twitch. The account was also “permanently blocked to prevent future unauthorized charges.”
“At this point, it’s within a few hundred dollars, and I am happy to have received what I did, and am not going to pursue the difference,” the mother said.
The mother also reportedly claimed that they had contacted Twitch for the refund but didn’t get a response from the streaming platform. The Twitch account through which the donations were made was also shut down, resulting in the loss of all the information on the transactions.
Free Fire announced Free Fire India Championship(FALL) 2020 which is going to be the biggest Free Fire esports tournament in India. PayTM First Games has sponsored this event to bring in a huge prize pool of ₹50,00,000 (~66,630 USD).
Free Fire India Championship(Fall) will be the second edition of the tournament in this year. Free Fire India Championship 2020 first circuit was won by Entity Gaming and had a prize pool of 3,60,000INR. Free Fire managed to rise the bars for their own tournaments by bring such a huge prize pool in its next edition which is going to be sponsored by Paytm First Games and organized by Garena.
Players can register in this tournament from between 13th to 16th August. The mode of registration is available in-game according to the official post and the further qualification details are yet to be announced. The playoffs will begin from 16th August from 16:00 to 21:00 IST.
Free Fire has been actively trying to enhance their esports side and emerge as a prominent title alongside other famous battle-royale game that are recently on a rise in Asian region. Free Fire is immensely popular in western region and their esports future in India did not look as promising as compared to PUBG Mobile. Announcing such a big tournament along with new sponsors and big prize money may set them on tracks to compete more efficiently in esports category.
Free Fire recently held two tournaments; the open-for-all Free Fire Brawlers Bash and invitational “FFBB Final Clash” but the prize was some in-game diamonds and no real money. Free Fire India Championship is the next major title for the Indian region.
OnePlus has partnered up with PUBG Mobile to bring in 90fps mode for its flagship smartphones. The frame rate experience is exclusive to these devices for a month and may open soon for other flagship devices globally.
OnePlus recently teased about some sort of collaboration with PUBG Mobile when the official handle tweeted the following post and got overwhelming response from the community.
The OnePlus community quickly started guessing about this partnership and many of the guesses pointed towards the higher FPS mode. The announcement came shortly afterwards when they revealed that OnePlus will be the first ever brand to get the exclusive 90FPS experience.
.@PUBGMOBILE dropped a crate at OnePlus HQ and gifted us with 90 FPS smooth gameplay!
For the first time ever on a smartphone, experience smooth 90 FPS PUBG gameplay exclusively on OnePlus#GameonOnePlus
The collaboration is temporarily exclusive from 6 August to 7 September and will be available on the OnePlus 8 series, OnePlus 7T series and OnePlus 7 Pro. Mainland China, Korea and Japan are excluded from the experience and details over the decision are not mentioned.
After 7th September, the 90FPS experience may go global to all the flagship devices that has a higher refresh rate. iPhone users cannot opt for this feature as most of the devices are still running on 60Hz screens but some iPads which have 120Hz can opt for this 90FPS experience.
The 90fps experience was one of the most awaited feature in PUBG Mobile community. The demand over this feature was rising when it was released in PUBG Mobile’s Chinese counterpart Game for Peace and finally 90fps can be availed globally and most probably soon on all other flagship devices as well.
This 90fps is a gamechanger as PUBG Mobile esports is growing heavily and a smoother gameplay will allow players to be more versatile in this game and rise the bars set by current professional players.
PMWL Grand Finals Day Two ends with a rocking performance by RRQ Athena getting three chicken dinners in today’s matches and securing the top three position. Bigetron RA, the champions, yet again claim the top spot on the second day.
Match One – Erangel:
First match of the day began with an incredible shift in playzone hanging between both the islands and teams had tough call to rotate on the southern island or not. Team IND and MegaStars camped their two respective bridges and Bigetron was seen making a very early rotation.
TSM-Entity pushed towards the only compound near the playzone on the main island which was occupied by Valdus Esports. TSM-Entity yet again got the opening frags but tumbled down while trying to push. They did regain their composure but Valdus got enough time to revive back two players and disengage. Orange Rock entered the fray and played spoilers for both of these teams, wiping out both of them slowly and losing two players as well.
The instantaneous southern shift forced teams to make uncomfortable rotations through water body and many players gave away their kills to Team IND who was waiting for them at the beach. After wiping almost everybody by the coastline, IND crashed into Bigetron and took then down succumbed to the playzone damage.
T1, Megastars and Galaxy Racers Celtz made their way to the top three by taking down many teams and finally a messy fight started where T1 got the advantage and won the first match.
T1 won the map with 6 kills and 26 points.
Megastars ranked second with 6 kills and 20 points.
Team IND ranked third with 11 kills and 18 points.
Match Two – Vikendi:
Vikendi starts very slowly and the usual meta of loot and rotate was observed till the teams were forced to fight for claiming the landmass for themselves. Orange Rock tried rotating past many squads and lost two players in the process.
Reject Scarlett did some kind of uncertain play where they were not fully committed to the push and tried to run away from the fight. Valdus Esports rained bullets on them from the backside and eliminated them instantly.
Many teams dropped in a few seconds after a hard shift of the zone forced players to move in. RRQ Athena was almost wiped out by Valdus Esports and Megastars completed the job for Valdus. Megastars also fought against Valdus but both of them could not enter the last circle.
After a bloodbath and chaos, the fight calmed down and KOG Club faced Bigetron in the final battle. Bigetron gave a tough fight but KOG Club emerged victorious.
Bigetron RA rank first with 10 kills and 24 points.
KOG Club won the match but rank second with 4 kills and 24 points.
Valdus Esports rank third with 9 kills and 14 points.
Match Three – Erangel:
BOX Gaming started off this game with a fight with GXR Celtz for a compound that is very well versed by BOX Gaming. They manage to find out angles on Celtz and despite giving a good battle, Celtz get eliminated on the 16th spot.
BOX Gaming could not savor their victory as the zone moved away from them and they had to move into the circle. They clashed with Team IND and instantly got eliminated without putting much of a fight.
Bigetron RA pushed onto TSM-Entity and overpowered them by getting opening frags and finishing the job cleanly. Although they had to face IND almost instantly, they could not react that fast and took an early exit. Teams dropped very fast as the circle moved towards an open field finish.
Orange Rock entered the circle from northern side and got a favourable position on the opposite side of the road. They had to face the full squad of RRQ and they clashed in a fierce battle. Both sides traded kills and it was a 1v1 situation in the end. Viru from Orange Rock did a small misplay as he couldn’t read his opponent’s location instantly and had to drop out while trying to land a grenade and tanking damage simultaneously.
RRQ Athena won the match with 15 kills and 35 points
Orange Rock rank second with 9 kills and 23 points
U Level UP rank third with 4 kills and 14 points
Match Four – Miramar:
The sandy mountains of Miramar witnessed no action at the start of this map. As the landmass of this map is huge and there are so many ridges to play around, no teams usually battle against each other unless they are forced to do so.
Orange Rock and Reject Scarlett fought at the start where Orange Rock had three knocked players but the former makes an absurd decision to send in a single player to wipe out the team and they pay the price as Orange Rock stays alive and Reject Scarlett lose one player.
Reject Scarlett later capitalised on the engagement when they took down Yodoo Gank and Orange Rock one after the other. After a long massacre throughout the map, only few remained standing and Neyoo from TSM tried to clutch for his team but unfortunately BOX Gaming take him down.
RRQ Athena remain calm throughout the map and strike the teams on a very crucial time as they take away the win with less number of kills but gain necessary placement points.
RRQ Athena won the match with 6 kills and 26 points.
BOX Gaming rank second with 10 kills and 24 points.
Team IND rank third with 6 kills and 16 points.
Match Five – Sanhok:
MegaStars and Valdus Esports faced against each other after the initial looting phase. Megastars had the upper hand in this fight when they took down two players of Valdus Esports but they did not anticipate the position of other players as they take heavy damage in retaliation and get eliminated early on.
KOG Club was battered down by Team Secret and TSM-Entity entered the fray from the other side and claimed two kills for themselves. TSM was later caught in a tricky situation,split in two parts and pincered by RRQ Athena and Yodoo Gank but two players held patiently and found two opening kills and successfully managed to regroup.
RRQ Athena could not handle the damage as they tried to rotate away but SynerGE catches them and gets two easy kills. The middle phase of this map is always a chaotic massacre and this time it was even more bloody. Teams were eliminated like flies and very few managed to survive.
Bigetron RA were gifted a circle and they utilized it perfectly as they manage to kill all the surrounding players remaining proned in the grasslands and finally win the match. Team IND performed impressively yet again as they had high number of kills but died due to zone disadvantage.
Bigetron RA won the match with 11 kills and 31 points
Team IND rank second with 7 kills and 17 points
TSM-Entity rank third with 9 kills and 15 points
Match Six – Erangel:
The last game of day two was utter madness as the circle ended in the most unexpected way. TSM-Entity started this map with a fight against Celtz and cleanly eliminating them.
The zone moved away from Ferry Peir area and all the teams in the city ran towards a single compound and three teams were rammed into a single house. U Level UP kept their patience and let Yodoo Gank and BOX Gaming fight. After all the massacre was over, they simply drop down to secure four easy kills.
The circle shifted to 80% water area at phase six, this meant almost no land mass was available for play and hence teams had to make a run of their life and pray for the best outcome. TSM did such a thing and directly dived into RRQ and BTR’s fight and wiped out Bigetron. RRQ instantly responded and wiped TSM as well.
The circle almost ended in the waters and RRQ was only team standing. Orange Rock tried to challenge them but made the attempt was unsuccessful. Bigetron managed to take a win in one of the quirkiest matches of competitive PUBG Mobile. SynerGE gets the second spot by playing a patient game and staying into waters for longest time possible.
RRQ Athena won the match with 12 kills and 32 points.
Team Liquid has finally entered the professional VALORANT scene on friday when they announced their new VALORANT lineup consisting of players from the former fish123 roster. Liquid welcomed their new lineup through a video they shared through their social media handles which shows highlight reels of all the players in this new Liquid roster.
The former fish123 roster which Liquid signed for their team includes popular names and former CSGO pros like Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom, Adam “ec1s” Eccles, Dom “soulcas” Sulcas, James “Kryptix” Affleck, Travis “L1NK” Mendoza and Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom.
Team fish123 has proven themselves repeatedly in the professional VALORANT scene, landing a recent 2nd place finish on the WePlay! Invitational and multiple first place finishes in past across tournaments like the Mandatory Cup and Solary Cup.
Team Liquid’s official website states, “Liquid set out to find players that we believed in and we knew would find competitive success, while also sharing in our values as an organization. It’s finally time to announce that we have found those players.”
This new Liquid roster is all set to compete in VALORANT tournaments across the European region, but with the Act II of the competitive shooter introducing a ton of new changes to the game, the pros will surely require some warming up before entering their first tournament as a new team.
According to HLTV.org, Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom has announced that he has retired from competitive Counter-Strike with immediate effect.
The 26-year-old Belgian rifler last played for Gamer Legion and has been playing in temporary stacks ever since while also taking a break before the launch of Valorant. ScreaM migrated to Valorant since it’s beta launch and has retained much of his aiming prowess while being one of the players to seamlessly ease into the game and its mechanism.
The game has changed. A new exciting chapter starts.
Officially joining @TeamLiquid on Valorant and I can't wait to compete with the team!
Today ScreaM bid farwell to his illustrious 7 year old career at CS:GO where in times, he has represented a plethora of organizations including the top tier teams, G2 Esports and Team EnvyUs. During his career, he rose to his supremacy in 2016 when he helped his team G2 to claim the inaugural ECS Season 1 title after seeing off Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo and his men in the grand finals where he was adjudged as the MVP at the same.
His career too dates back to the early days where he had helped his former Team Titan clinch the DreamHack Stockholm CS:GO invitational by SteelSeries in 2014 where he along with Richard “Shox” Papillon sent Ninjas in Pyjamas packing in the grand final. But over these years, we did see a steep downfall in his progress and achievements as he was unable to gain back his momentum after a couple of unsuccessful events. Notably known as the “Headshot Machine” in the CS:GO community because of his stupendous aiming power, gone are the days where we would see this giant rise back to represent a team in CS:GO.
Adil in his Tweet has revealed his plans to establish his career in the newly blooming FPS titled “Valorant”. We will now see ScreaM shooting heads as he will now represent the North American Organization Team Liquid for its Official Games in Valorant.
After running over KIRA Esports in the Semi-Finals, Team Union Gaming have set up yet another stellar performance where they eased past Team MercenarieZ in the Grand finale of the South Asia Nationals. Led by Tasabbir “Sparko” Hashem Easraq, Union Gaming did pull of a clean sweep over the guys from Team MercenarieZ by overcoming them with a scoreline of 3-0 in a Best of 5 affairs. Along with been crowned as the champions of the South Asia Division, they also have bagged 275 points for the Six Invitational, which is annually held at Montreal, Canada.
he grand finale featured 3 maps comprising of Theme park followed by Clubhouse where Team Union Gaming prevailed and in course did configure the next map as a do or die affair for the MercernarieZ. With DOC7ER and his men looking destitute and listless, Oregon too saw a closely contested matchup go to shambles as UG simply out-aimed and out-gunned MercZ on all sites.
With 275 Six Invitational points in the bag and notching up the Lion’s share of 7500USD from the Prize pool, history has been made at today’s South Asia Grand finals as Team Union Gaming are the only team yet to achieve this feat. Based in Sri-Lanka, UG comprises of 3 players from India and rest 2 from Bangladesh. They are currently fielding this team which till now has proven to be coherent and in good leadership.
Tasabbir “Sparko” Hashem (Bangladesh)
Naveen “Beat” Krishnan (India)
Arvinth “Jittery” Narayanan (India)
Sudwipto “Poseidon” Kumar (Bangladesh)
Nitin “EX7.” Tom (India)
This does bring an end to the Stage 1 phase which was previously altered due to the ongoing global Pandemic (COVID-19).
After being permanently banned from Twitch on June 26th for unknown reasons, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm IV has refrained from streaming for over five weeks. Although Twitch had said in their official statement that the 38-year-old controversial Twitch star was banned due to acting “in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service,” no specific reason was mentioned for it.
On August 5th, Dr Disrespect started teasing through his social media handles about his possible return to streaming. He also released his new song “Red Skies” on the same day.
Soon after the music video was released, Dr Disrespect finally confirmed through his twitter that he was about to start streaming on YouTube. “Tomorrow, we arrive,” the tweet said.
Dr Disrespect went live on YouTube on August 6th and the channel is still live as I write. The live stream has an average viewer count of about 10k and fans are seeming to love his return to the world of streaming. Interestingly enough, for the eleven hours the stream has been up for, the doc himself hasn’t appeared on the stream even once.
The doc had previously mentioned in an interview with PC Gamer that he, like his millions of fans, was in the dark about why Twitch banned him. He also stated that he isn’t returning to Twitch and is considering legal action against the platform instead.
Developers at ESL have come together to form a new tool which could help you analyze your matches from the official match-making algorithm of Valve and the ones played on ESEA as well. This specific tool goes by the name “CSGO HUB” and it might play a pivotal role in laying probes over some of your Game Statistics including K/D ratio, your positioning in the game for better combat outcomes and rank comparisons as well.
CSGO HUB will provide you with some Daily missions including, getting kills on a specific map or that but with a HE Grenade, MAP Analysis where you can stand a chance to capitalize on your mistakes thus helping you to mould yourself for top notch strategies in your future games.
At the end of every week, after completing a brief audit on your Game Structures and plans and implementing them, CSGO HUB will provide you with a report card highlighting your progress and lowlights enabling you to get a much brighter image with you as an emerging player.
Need help with registering for the #CSGOHUB Beta? 🙋♂️
At this very moment, CSGO HUB has been deployed in its Beta Phase and is expected soon to be launched in a fully-fledged manner. You can already redeem its perks by navigating yourself to the CSGO HUB website where you can sign up and start working on your matches from the last 30 days.
You can follow this YouTube Video for some more information about CSGO HUB and how to sign up for the same.
