If you know a thing or two about CSGO knives, then you should know about the Fire & Ice knives of the game. Not only are those some of the best looking knives in the game, but they’re also in high demand in the CSGO marketplace and some of them can have insane prices.
What are Fire & Ice knives?
The Marble Fade skins of knives have many possible patterns depending on their float and “pattern index”. Some knives, namely the karambit, gut, bayonet and flip knives have a special pattern available which although very rare, looks extremely good on them due to the perfect blend of the red and blue sides. This specific pattern of these knives is known as the Fire & Ice pattern and is in high demand among collectors and casual players alike.
Generally, a Marble Fade knife contains three colours – red, blue and yellow. The ideal Fire & Ice knife would consist of 50% red and 50% blue on the play side with 0% yellow.
As soon as any hint of yellow appears on the playside, that knife is generally considered as a fake Fire & Ice.
Now let’s take a look at the Fire & Ice versions of specific knives.
Karambit Fire & Ice
The Karambit is, in general, one of the priciest knives in the Steam marketplace. The Fire & Ice variants of this knife are no exception either, their high demand fuels their high prices.
The 1st max Fire & Ice variant of the Karambit has the pattern Index of 412, with no trace of yellow on the play side.
The max fake version of the karambit Fire & Ice has a pattern index of 441, with slight traces of yellow appearing near the handle.
As the pattern shifts further to the right, more traces of yellow start appearing on the skin.
Gut Fire & Ice
A Gut Fire & Ice may be your ideal choice if your budget is tight. Not only are these knives cheaper in general, but their Fire & Ice variants can also be obtained at a relatively good price.
The 1st max Fire & Ice Gut knife has the pattern index of 412.
The max fake Gut Fire & Ice has a pattern index of 378.
Bayonet Fire & Ice
Bayonets can be pricey, but their sleek and elegant looks are generally worth it.
Similar to the others, the 1st Max has the pattern index of 412.
The max fake Bayonet Fire & Ice has the pattern index of 378.
Flip Fire & Ice
Flip knives are also on the cheaper side, but higher priced than the Gut knives. While these knives undoubtedly look good, the lack of new animations for the knives impact its price negatively.
Here’s the 1st max with the pattern index of 412.
The max fake Flip Fire & Ice has the pattern index of 48.
Here’s an extremely useful chart compiling all the variants of Fire & Ice knives. This list was made by “Pixel” on Steam and can be found in his guide.
PMWL East Super Weekend continues again today with BOX Gaming performing excellent and TSM-Entity finally rising above them all with two chicken dinners.
PMWL Super Weekend Week Two Day Four Results:
Bigetron RA – 299 pt – 123 kills
RRQ Athena – 284 pt – 133 kills
BOX Gaming – 266 pt – 99 kills
GXR Celtz – 262 pt – 98 kills
KOG Club – 248 pt – 105 kills
Megastars – 242 pt – 89 kills
Team Secret – 234 pt – 100 kills
T1 – 200 pt – 64 kills
Orange Rock – 198 pt – 84 kills
TSM-Entity – 197 pt – 77 kills
Valdus Esports -195 pt – 82 kills
SynerGE – 195 pt – 76 kills
Team IND – 161 pt – 68 kills
Yodoo Gank – 161 pt – 51 kills
Reject Scarlett – 155 pt – 55 kills
U Level UP – 86 pt – 31 kills
No Chance Team – 76 pt – 32 kills
Free Style – 61 pt – 23 kills
kTeam Performances:
RRQ Athena:
RRQ was not having one of their best days as they had four bad finishes and one top three match. They did manage to secure some points and remain in the top three but lacked their usual consistency. RRQ slide to second spot on overall rankings but they have tomorrow’s day to claim back the top spot.
Bigetron Red Aliens:
Bigetron had a very bad start today with two consecutive matches of bad finishes. The next three games they pulled wonders as they always found their way into end circles and claim the top 5 placement by any means. They take out RRQ and now stand at the top of scoreboards. The reigning champions are looking strong to get their next trophy this year.
GXR Celtz:
They had a great day yesterday but lacked consistency today. Three maps of decent finishes and two bad games put them into bad spot today. They have already collected high amount of points so today’s slump won’t affect them much, but they will have to come back stronger tomorrow. They still remain in the top 4 spot in overall rankings so they will have to move on looking at today as just a bad experience.
Orange Rock
Orange Rock clearly had a bad day today. With just one top 3 finish and then all games ending in double digit ranks, they look weak heading into end of third day of Super Weekend. They slide down to 9th rank in overall standings. They are struggling with the strategies and decisions about rotations as well. They should try to improve their negatives and perform like they did in the opening week and first league play week.
Team Secret:
Team Secret is slowly but surely making progress in the league stages. They were inefficient in last week but beautifully covered the gap in this week. They managed to get good amount of points with high kills as they had decent games today as compared to other teams. They end the last match on second spot with high amount of kills. They jump to 7th position in overall leaderboards.
U Level UP
They emerge victorious in Vikendi but had a bad run into other matches. The win have allowed them to have decent average points but they must perform better tomorrow. They are playing into Super Weekend for the first time but are performing excellent and will quickly catch up to other teams as well. They are still at 16th spot but grabbing 86 points in 10 games is a feat in itself.
TSM-Entity
The grab the win in the third map of Miramar as well as last match of Erangel with high amount of kills. They recently relocated out of their bootcamp due to some issues and the this change has woken the sleeping beasts. Their decisions might be a bit hasty at times but their gun power always covers up for it. They make a huge leap in overall scoreboards after today’s matches as they land into top 10 by collecting 72 points in a single day. That is a great start for them.
SynerGE
They grab the first win in today’s matches, excellent hold and co-ordinated rushes coming from SynerGE. One of the most consistent teams with their name as their core value but after their first win, they had four bad games and their overall points from today’s games remain below average. They fall down to 12th rank in overall standings.
Megastars:
Megastars started their day with a weak first game but they improved subsequently and performed wonderfully in the next matches. They again remain consistent into leaderboards. They are at 6th position overall and slowly but steadily climbing up the ladders.
Team IND:
IND started strong today but slides down as they games move on. It has been one of their worst performance in PMWL. They slide down to 13th spot overall and will have to climb back up in tomorrow’s games.
BOX Gaming:
They claim the victory on fourth map of Sanhok. They were super consistent today and showcased some excellent gameplay. They had two 2nd place finishes and one win. This allowed them to collect so many points today have a jump in leaderboards. They directly land into top three from today’s game. This has been an excellent performance for today’s matches.
KOG Club:
They had two good matches and two bad matches with one average performing map. This has not impacted much on their overall ranking but they are making steady progress and did not lose their spot from overall standings. They rank at 5th position in standings.
Free Style:
They had a decent run today. No big outplays or extraordinary matches from their side but they slowly making their way into the scoreboards. They currently sit at the bottom of overall standings.
Valdus Esports:
Valdus Esports has been consistent but today they lacked their usual play style. They had four bad games and recover a bit into the last match. Today’s bad performance led them to slip down to second half of scoreboards.
Reject Scarlett:
Usually Reject Scarlett isn’t seen into the top teams but today, they played excellently. They had four consistent games and one decent match today and racked up enough points to increase their points steadily. They are at the 15th spot.
SKT T1:
T1 had a normal start in today’s matches. They are performing consistently throughout the weekend and we can see the changes in overall standings as well. They now stand at the 8th spot while recently they were low down in second half of scoreboards.
American furniture giant Herman Miller has announced their partnership with Swiss gaming peripheral manufacturer Logitech to introduce a gaming chair to their line-up of gaming furnishings. The Embody Gaming Chair comes with a pricetag of a whopping $1500 which is likely to turn a lot of heads.
The chair, as claimed by Herman Miller is brought to life with the aid of 30 physicians and PhD holders, who helped in researching the common postures that gamers opt for during an intense gaming session. The final outcome is in form of a chair which is designed to provide the utmost comfort.
The chair is padded with an additional layer of foam which helps keep the user in correct posture. The seat also comes with a copper infused cooling technology which dissipate the heat generated in prolong gaming sessions. A PostureFit device is included in the chair which will keep the user in a position where their chest is open and the pelvis is inclined front wise, which is the strongest and healthiest body posture.
The BackFit adjustment prevents the user’s spine from resting in a curve position which is natural after long sessions of sitting in the same place. Furthermore, it comes with additional support for your lower spine along with regular lumbar support.
Pressure distribution points are settled all across the chair which reads the micro movements of your body and adjusts accordingly to even out the pressure helping your blood flow better.
During the times of quarantine, it is no surprise that most of us have antiquated ourselves to the habit of gamers, sitting in their chair for hours looking at their monitors. As unfortunate times leave us no choice but to resort to computers to carry out our regular activities like attending classes and meetings, we might as well get a new chair to look after our physique.
OG has officially announced through their social medias that their two-time TI winning offlaner Sébastien “Ceb” Debs will be making a return to their active Dota 2 roster.
The cold-headed offlane player of a lifetime, the unmatched starving will of OG and chatwheel god @Ceb is back.🌻
“The cold-headed offlane player of a lifetime, the unmatched starving will of OG, the lakad matatag god is back in the game,” OG mentioned in their official blog while describing the return of Ceb to the game.
Ceb will be taking the place of Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan, who has been removed from OG.
OG describes Ceb’s competitiveness as the prime reason behind his return to the team. “I honestly kinda take offense in the simple fact that other teams think that they can beat us”, Ceb told OG.
Ceb also seems to have missed playing with his friends more than anything, “Every game they play in which I’m not playing felt like a waste of my time. I enjoy playing with them more than anything else”, Ceb said.
OG also hasn’t forgotten to bid a proper farewell to Sumail through their social media handles, “Sumail is one of the best players in the world, as well as a fantastic person to work with. We would like to thank him for his time spent with us and wish him the best.”
Today, we would also like to thank @SumaaaaiL for his time with OG, we wish him the best of luck for what will come next for him.
The updated OG roster will consist of Yeik “MidOne” Nai Zheng, Topias Miikka “Topson” Taavitsainen, Sébastien “Ceb” Debs, Martin “Saksa” Sazdov, Johan “N0tail” Sundstein. This new roster of OG can be seen live in action in the Dota Pit tournament on 27th July.
Ted “silkthread” Wang is an ex-Overwatch pro who used to play in the Overwatch league for team Los Angeles Gladiators. Back in 2018, during the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, silkthread found himself amid trouble after making a tweet about Pepe the frog.
Silkthread said in his tweet, “Does anyone else love Pepe the frog?” While this tweet may be seemingly harmless at first, the Overwatch League fined silkthread a sum of $1,000 for that tweet, claiming that it violated the “spirit of diversity” of the Overwatch League.
Recently, the 21-year-old ex-Overwatch pro has finally revealed to his fans on his Twitch stream, the contents of the email which was sent to him by Overwatch League at that time.
“Your comments violate the spirit of diversity and inclusiveness that makes Overwatch great,” the email read. “Comments like yours will not be tolerated by anyone associated with the Overwatch League.”
The email further said, “Accordingly, the League Office has determined to impose a $1,000 for posting support for a racist meme.”
However, silkthread decided to dispute the fine and succeeded in doing so, but it seems like he regrets his choice upon looking back. “I think it probably would have been smarter to take the fine ‘cause it’d be pretty fucking cool to get legacized as the person that got fined for tweeting about Pepe the frog, that’d be pretty epic,” silkthread said in his stream.
While silkthread avoided the fine of $1,000 back then, he mentioned in the stream that he had to pay $60 for a cab ride to Burbank to dispute the fine.
Tencent and VSPN have signed a strategic deal with UFC for Chinese PUBG Mobile’s famous tournament Peacekeeper Elite League (PEL) Season Two. The tournament starts today.
Peacekeeper Elite League is longest and most competitive tournament for Game for Peace, Chinese counterpart of PUBG Mobile, in China. The level of competition is very high and business value it brings in terms of sponsorships is huge.
The mobile gaming industry has been rising steadily around the world, but more rapidly in China. China is the highest esports revenue platform globally and has brought in $7.2 Billion in the mobile esports revenue, according to reports by Google.
Such factors make China a rising opportunity for sponsors around the world who are trying to delve into esports. It is evident through recent sponsorship by Tesla who collaborated with Tencent to bring in limited edition skin of their car Tesla Model 3.
According to PEL’s official post, the UFC partnership is first of its kind in China and the company plans to extend their alliance in various ways. The translated post reads this:
“In the future, the two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in multiple dimensions, and innovatively inject sports genes into esports events.”
The UFC and PEL partnership again brings a promising future path for mobile esports and mainly PUBG Mobile. The mobile esports ecosystem is slowly growing and such partnership and collaborations are prominent evidences that the future holds good part for PUBG Mobile and mobile esports in general.
The problem of cheaters in any competitive game has haunted players and developers alike for decades. It’s next to impossible these days to find a competitive shooter without cheaters in it. Companies like Valve and Riot have developed advanced anti-cheat systems like VAC and Vanguard respectively to curb cheating in their games. While both of these anti-cheats do a decent job at keeping cheaters in check, a portion of cheaters still continues to slip through undetected, ruining the games for legit players.
In an attempt to strengthen the battle against cheaters, on July 8th, Valve introduced a new form of anti-cheat in CSGO called “Trusted Mode”. This Trusted Mode would automatically block most third-party programmes from interacting with CSGO unless they were licensed by Valve. While the aim of this update was to prevent cheating applications interfering with the game, this mode also triggered many false positives and blacklisted popular streaming softwares like OBS and other genuine software like Discord, Overwolf or Spotify.
However, even after a few weeks have passed after the Trusted Mode update, players are continuing to complain that cheaters are still haunting their matchmaking games quite regularly. Videos of matchmade games and Overwatch cases showing blatant cheaters are still found every so often on platforms like YouTube, Reddit and Twitter.
Twitter user “XperiaFPS” has asked CSGO to “fix” their game while attaching a video of one of his competitive matches where both his enemies and his teammates are clearly seen cheating. He said in his tweet, “This is my first game this morning & had a full team cheating & a guy on my team start Spinning. Not to mention the team kill at the start & the guy on Palace having an anti-aim to flick me away from him. Fix the damn game.”
You guys really need to fix your game @CSGO. This is my first game this morning & had a full team cheating & a guy on my team start Spinning. Not to mention the team kill at the start & the guy on Palace having a anti-aim to flick me away from him. Fix the damn game. Fuking joke. pic.twitter.com/9q6atNjhMg
While players still have the option to opt for other third party matchmaking services with separate and stricter anti-cheat systems like the ESEA or FACEIT, the fact that even the Trusted Mode couldn’t fix the cheater problem of the game is indeed ruining the reputation of CSGO as one of the top competitive shooters of this age.
TSM Entity, one of the most dominating teams in India, is going to move out of their bootcamp and shift to Soul and 8Bit’s combined gaming house due to network issues. The information was revealed by TSM-Entity’s manager on his Instagram handle yesterday.
TSM-Entity has been struggling to perform at the PUBG Mobile World League East recently. They had a bad run in the first week but later when they regained their form, they have a new problem. They are facing internet issues at their bootcamp and due to this, they have lost high amount of points and crucial games in this week’s league stage.
Players of TSM-Entity expressed their concerns through social media and explained why they are having a bad performance. It can be clearly seen from the uploaded videos that they face ping spikes, sometimes the internet shuts down completely and due to this, they get eliminated in the matches.
TSM-Entity are coming back into the tournament as they are finishing the days with higher points average and kill counts. They even managed to win a match yesterday, and their manager exppressed his happiness on Instagram as this was their “first win” on the global stage.
They have been facing this issues for so many matches that the team manager said that he will go to extreme level for providing the perfect connection for his team, even if it meant changing locations. He made it happen as he had some talks with 8bit Thug and their collaborative effort allowed TSM-Entity to utilize “S8UL Bootcamp” for the further matches of PMWL.
This arrangement may bring some changes into TSM-Entity’s recent performances and hopefully they will perform better in the upcoming league matches and PMWL East Finals.
Imane “Pokimane” Anys is one of the most iconic Twitch streamers and the face of women streamers on Twitch. Ranked at #7 on Twitch with over 5 million followers, the Moroccan Canadian streamer is renowned for her gaming and Just Chatting streams.
Recently, in an interview with YouTuber Graham Stephan, Pokimane has revealed the insane financial costs that are associated with being a top Twitch streamer.
When asked by Stephan about the number of people working for her “behind the scenes,” Pokimane gave fans an idea about the total monthly costs she has to spend on all her employees.
Pokimane mentioned that she used to hire editors for “one video” at a time, which later transformed to her requiring full-time editors, and a few years later she had to hire a manager to all those editors. “I can’t spend all that time reviewing videos, telling people what to make videos about, reviewing thumbnails,” Pokimane said. “ I still have oversight on everything so I’m in all the conversations, but I have someone else actively giving that feedback.”
She then explained that she has also hired a manager to deal with companies, “I have hired a manager in general, which is someone I delegate tasks to, and that communicates with companies. They are mainly managing my day-to-day and my liaison for other companies, so I’m not the one responding to every email.”
Pokimane then proceeded to reveal her business expenses on all her employees, which might be shocking at first. “Business expense by far is what I spend most of my income on,” Pokimane said. “Probably like $10-20k a month just paying other people out.”
She further added to this already complex list by saying, “I forgot to mention, but I also now have like a business manager, which is just someone who handles all my finances including paying all the people I mentioned.” She also mentioned having an investment advisor to set up meetings with investment firms.
Graham Stephan has compiled this list of employees under Pokimane into a chart which he has included in his YouTube video.
PUBG Mobile World League resumes to Super Weekend today. The top 16 teams selected from this week’s League Play will battle for the next three days and add points to the same scoreboard from the last week.
This weekend is crucial for teams like Free Style and U Level UP as they lack behind by a significant margin as they couldn’t qualify for last week.
Match One – Erangel:
The start of this map was slow but some interesting engagements took place after the loot and rotate phase. King of Gamers Club punished Valdus Esports for their poor rotation, as they rotated three members into a single car. KOG then played very safely as they did not even secure their kills and went for the zone leaving Valdus to be potentially strong again.
U Level UP engaged also engaged very oddly. They initiated a fight into open fields and instantly took heavy casualties. A last player from their side finally succumbed to the playzone. Team IND and Megastars were fighting at the bridge area and some unfortunate knocks resulted into them taking the first exit.
Teams like took early exit because of unexpected zone shifts. Bigetron punished BOX Gaming when they slammed near Bigetron. They got themselves into similar situation when Team Secret battered them hard.
The end circle was mostly open field, with only a single cover of shack for SynerGE. RRQ Athena played a great endurance game as they kept hold under overwhelming pressure and secured the second spot. GXR Celtz used their man advantage and rallied towards the victory.
GXR Celtz won the match with 10 kills and 30 points.
RRQ Athena ranks second with 10 kills and 24 points.
SynerGE ranks third with 4 kills and 14 points.
Match Two – Vikendi:
Vikendi is well known for its super slow gameplay but in this map, it reached to the extreme level. Three phases of circle shifted centrally including all the teams and absolutely no fights broke out till timer reached 15 minutes mark.
The first engagement was between Orange Rock and RRQ Athena. At the start, RRQ was at disadvantage as their convoy was trapped into water but that player, G9, played wonderfully. He got the initial knock, and then kept pressure until his team rotated above him and finished Orange Rock cleanly.
As the land mass shrunk, players started to fall like flies. Teams were eliminated in the blink of an eye and a very limited amount of players ended up in the final zones. One peculiar fight was seen between TSM and Valdus Esports. Valdus overpowered TSM and wiped them out.
BOX Gaming and Team Secret battered players who tried entering the zone and gathered good amount of kills. Both of these teams faced each other but Team Secret secured an easy win.
Team Secret won the map with 12 kills and 32 points.
KOG Club ranked second with 8 kills and 22 points.
Valdus The Murder came third with 8 kills and 16 points.
Match Three – Miramar:
Miramar starts with a few clashes all over the map. Some players land onto the same drop locations and have to lose their life without any trade. Even with some eliminations, no major fights broke out early on.
Orange Rock finds Bigetron rotating into the circle and burst down their vehicle. Orange Rock takes three easy kills and have a good start. The fights went neutral again for some time till the zone was small enough.
Celtz and TSM-Entity clashed each other into a fierce battle. Both sides traded few knocks and fight was elongated till the next circle shift. It was a 1 vs 1 and both of them had to move into playzone as soon as possible. A third-party play eliminates Celtz and playzone takes down TSM, as none of them emerged truly victorious.
At the same time, RRQ was fighting Megastars and RRQ wiped them out. The zone moved into urban finish and teams holding into the city had a strong position. U Level UP was the only team that had a huge amount of kills but lacked position points.
The last fight took place between T1 and KOG Club, where T1 grabbed the victory with less amount of kills.
T1 won the map with 5 kills and 25 points.
U Level UP ranked second with 11 kills and 17 points.
Team Secret ranked third with 7 kills and 17 points.
Match Four – Sanhok:
An early engagement was seen between Megastars and Reject Scarlett but Megastars manage to fend off Reject Scarlett and taking few kills in the process. The zone yet again shifted centrally and match was slowed down a bit.
Team IND was running for the circle but couldn’t quite make it. They were backstabbed at first and then lost the fight against Valdus Esports. They were pincered by Orange Rock and Valdus hence take an early exit.
Team Secret looks for an opportunity but gets backlash as three of their players get killed by SynerGE. As the zone entered into final stages, teams were dropping out like flies.
TSM-Entity was grabbing up kills while entering into the zone and eliminated many teams in the process. They were very strong in this match and they showcased their prowess with a grenade kill to grab the win.
TSM-Entity won the map with 12 kills and 32 points.
GXR Celtz ranks second with 8 kills and 22 points.
Free Style ranks third with 3 kills and 13 points.
Match Five – Erangel:
Last match of the day was a festival of blood right from the start. Two players of Reject Scarlett drop out instantaneously as they fight to secure a vehicle. The fights stopped for a while but it was the silence before the storm.
Bigetron put a stealthy bridge camp near Mylta and get two kills of Megastars out of it. Megastars subsequently get eliminated while trying to enter the zone. The fights got intense as zone started shrinking, teams like Bigetron RA and KOG Club stacked up kills and others faced the wrath.
Bigetron RA always put up a show for their audience. This time it was Ryzen who played the spoiler into the fights between KOG and Team IND. Ryzen got close to them and waits for an opportunity to pounce. When he sees the opening, he decimates the entire Team IND by himself.
Bigetron finally fought against Orange Rock. It started on a fair trade basis but Ryzen again managed to flank the opponents and get two knocks and his team followed up to secure the win
Bigetron Red Aliens win this match with 17 kills and 37 points.
KOG Club ranks second with 13 kills and 21 points.
Orange Rock ranks third with 6 kills and 20 points.
Overall Standings:
Synopsis:
The first day in second Super Weekend overall has been incredible to watch and super intense with good show for the audience. RRQ Athena stays at the top but Bigetron RA have catched up with them and there is just two points gap remaining in between.
The day has been incredible for Bigetron, Celtz and also for King of Gamers Club. They have shown some outstanding performances today and have been consistent throughout. KOG Club lacked a little bit in last week but today they seem formidable, they grabbed high kills in today’s games.
A special mention comes to players of Bigetron RA. They have been absolute beasts till now in the tournament. They get into the top five almost everytime and today they managed to shine into the last game, incredible plays from their side.
Celtz and Megastars also has been performing great recently, especially Celtz. With their entry into super weekend last week and then picking up the pace, it goes without saying that they are one of the best hopes for India in grand finals.
TSM-Entity gets one win today and are rising in the rankings. If this performance remains consistent, we may see the TSM-Entity known for its domination soon in PMWL. Team IND and Orange Rock are definitely underperforming now and they have to get back into the games to obtain better points. Although Orange Rock is been fairly consistent, they just lack their old gameplay right now.
U Level UP and Free Style enters the lobby today and should continue to have a good run and try to catch up with rest of the teams.
Yodoo Gank is heavily inconsistent right now, they were table tops at the first day of weekend in last week and this time they have fallen down to 10th and not participating in this super weekend. This may end very badly if they don’t make a comeback in next week.
