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CSGO: ESL One Cologne 2020 announced to be held online

ESL has officially announced through their website that they’ve decided to transition their much-anticipated event ESL One Cologne 2020 to an online format.


Previously, there had been reports of ESL attempting to hold this tournament offline in an arena as usual; but due to the increasing complexity of the pandemic situation and some significant travel restrictions still being prevalent across various countries of the world, ESL were left with no other option than to hold ESL One Cologne 2020 online.

“Our team went above and beyond trying to make ESL One Cologne 2020 powered by Intel happen offline this year,” ESL said in their blog, “but after a thorough evaluation we’ve concluded that we have to transition to an Online Tournament.”

“The decision was made after extensive research and understanding of global travel regulations and individual national guidelines due to ongoing COVID-19 measures.”

ESL stated that the tournament is scheduled to begin from August 18th and conclude on August 30th. They also mentioned that they’re splitting the trophy across four regional divisions: Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.

Here’s how the current confirmed teams are placed based on their division:

Europe:

  • Astralis
  • Fnatic
  • Na’Vi
  • G2
  • Mousesports
  • FaZe
  • Vitality
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • BIG
  • Sprout
  • Heretics
  • Complexity
  • OG
  • Heroic
  • MAD Lions

North America:

  • Team Liquid
  • 100 Thieves
  • Evil Geniuses
  • FURIA Esports
  • Cloud9
  • GEN.G Esports
  • MiBR

ASIA:

  • TyLoo

Oceania:

  • Renegades

According to the ESL website, the teams were selected through a regionalized version of the original ESL One Cologne qualification rule set: the ESL Pro Tour ranking, ESL Pro Tour Challenger events and the ESL World Ranking.

ESL One Cologne 2020 will provide the highest ESL Pro Tour points value, but will not count as an ESL Pro Tour Masters Championship event due to the world’s top teams being separated.

The teams will be competing for a total prize pool of $500,000 while the other $500,000 is set to be redistributed equally to next years’ tournaments Intel Extreme Masters Katowice and ESL One Cologne 2021.

ESL has however assured fans that they’re planning to bring their upcoming year’s tournament offline at the LANXESS arena in 2021.

PUBG Mobile upgrades its anti-cheat system: Details inside

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PUBG Mobile has upgraded anti-cheat system by tweaking the spectating system so players can no longer make unfair use out of it. There has been additional takedown of a new cheat which allowed players to one-shot kill their enemies. Players will face 10 year ban for exploiting the system.

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A new announcement was given by PUBG Corporation, in which the changes regarding anti-cheat system were highlighted. These changes will upgrade the already existing system and will be more helpful for developers to track down cheaters and maintain a fair-play environment in this famous Battle Royale game.


PUBG Mobile cited implementation of a new “peer-review mechanism” to the spectate mode. This will work in real-time in the game servers. The game servers will determine if an enemy player is visible in the view of game host. The server will use this information to decide if the spectator will be able to see enemy’s location or not.


This change in related to three main roles of the host, game server and the spectator. It is stated that “The game server will determine in real-time whether a player is visible in the view of the host. If it determines that a player is not visible in the view of the host, it will not transmit the location data of the player to spectators”.


This change will affect those players which used to two mobile phones. One was used to play the game and other was used to spectate the host with a x-ray vision plug-in to cheat. As the server will determine whether the players are visible or not, chances of using third-party cheat plug-ins can be avoided. This guarantees security and reliability of this new addition.


Another one-shot kill cheat was recently reported to the developers. They immediately worked in the respective departments and started action against violators. PUBG Mobile is claimed to have banned 10,000 players for ten years for using this as an exploit.


The players who have earlier violated the rules or still do, will face a 10 year ban for usage of third-party applications or plug-ins.

ESL India Premiership PUBG Mobile Summer Season Finale Day One Results

ESL India Premiership is the longest-running esports tournament in India. This flagship tournament enters its fifth edition this year being powered by NODWIN Gaming. This premiership is steadily rising with years and shaped many esports athlete in the country. PUBG Mobile is included for the first time in this premiership where players will compete to grab a big share from a huge overall prize pool of ₹1.15 Cr.


PUBG Mobile is featured for first time in ESL India Premiership because of its rising popularity and well-groomed esports scene. The prize pool for this title is ₹18,60,000 and winners will claim ₹6,00,000.

The Summer Season Grand Finals will be played on 16th and 17th July . Top 8 teams qualified from Summer Master League Final and 8 teams from Summer Final Playoff are facing each other.

Map sequence for two days will be as follows:

  • Erangel
  • Sanhok
  • Miramar
  • Vikendi
  • Erangel

Day One Standings:

Orange Rock yet again rocks into the premiership after the first finish on PMWL Week One. This team is running in an excellent form and ended on the top position for the first day. They grabbed two wins with total of 46 kills from the five matches. They are top on the kill leaderboards as well.

U-Mumba Esports runs on the second spot. They recently released their entire PUBG Mobile roster and signed a new roster. They are playing excellent in this tournament. They won the Final Playoffs to qualify for grand finals. They won one match in this tournament will 17 kills.

Megastars, Fnatic and SynerGE closely followed the in leader boards with new teams like Rising Falcon, Team Xhibit and Havoc Esports fighting closely in the top 8 slots.

Fan favourite personalities like Mortal and 8bit Thug will be the guest hosts for the second day.

PUBG Mobile alleged of “Milking Money”

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PUBG Mobile is alleged of considering their profits before their service towards the community. The allegations were later addressed by an official and clarified, some mistakes were also accepted by their side.

With the launch of Royal Pass of Season 14, A vehicle skin was not included in the rewards section for the first time. A UAZ skin was visible in the RP Gallery but did not appear in the rewards.

Tencent noticed about the royal pass blunder and released a statement on the official subreddit and their Discord server. It was mentioned that the skin in question is “missing” from the RP rewards and they are solving the issue.

This statement indicated that the vehicle skin was supposed to be in the rewards but was not included due to some problems.

The community expected that issue will be solved soon and the UAZ skin would be included but Tencent allegedly altered their statement and replaced the word “missing” with a statement “incorrectly displayed in the RP rewards”. This completely changed the meaning of their earlier statement and made it clear that it was not their intention to include the vehicle skin into the RP Rewards.

This decision was not really welcomed by the community. It was alleged that Tencent were “milking” money after a huge response by players buying the Royal Pass. Approximately 8 million RP purchases were made during the timeframe in which the statement was changed. This indirectly indicated that Tencent was more inclined towards money than the community, as alleged on their official subreddit.

The Reddit Community instantly noticed this change and started questioning this decision on their discord server. A user stated that he was muted when he questioned about this on their official discord.

Tencent broke their silence on this issue after an official clarified the situation. In the comments regarding this issue.

He stated that their team was actively working and wanted to adress this issue as soon as possible. He clarified that in the hurry of quick response, they “unfortunately” made a small mistake in how their reply was phased. He said “What we should have said is “We are investigating, and the Dev team has been made aware.” What we said instead was “This is getting fixed”.”

Regarding the vehicle skin issue, he clarified that the team always experiments with the RP rewards to understand what the players like or dislike. This time the focus was more on Cheer Park related stuff. Unfortunately, when this was implemented, a wrong item code led to display of an item which was never intended to be the part of Royale Pass in the first place.

They are also going to implement a new policy of 100% transparency. Any change or edit even to the smallest scale will be clarified and explained, so it will not lead to any suspicions or talks of coverup. They accept of the mistake of not clarifying their stance and apologized for the same and said that such mistake will never happen again.

NiP announces new Valorant lineup

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Following the footsteps of team Envy and 100 Thieves, this time it’s NiP who have also revealed their complete lineup for Riot Games’ tactical shooter VALORANT.


Renowned esports organisation Ninjas in Pyjamas have finally announced their updated VALORANT roster through their blog today and fans will soon be able to see the new lineup in action.

NiP announced the addition of three new players to their lineup including former Counter-Strike players CREA and Fearoth who have shown excellent potential in VALORANT so far, along with the former Overwatch pro HyP who had outstanding achievements in the pro scene of Overwatch. These three players will join RHYME and LuckeRRR to form the VALORANT lineup for NiP.

Here’s the complete NiP lineup of VALORANT as mentioned in the official NiP blog:

  • Enzo “Fearoth” Mestari (Captain) 
  • Emir “RHYME” Muminovic 
  • Niels “luckeRRR” Jasiek
  • Charles “CREA” Beauvois
  • Damien “HyP” Souville
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Fans who are eager to see this new NiP lineup in action won’t have to wait much longer because they’re all set to debut today on 16th July at 11:00 CEST as they take on forZe in the WePlay! Invitational which can be viewed live on the streaming platform Twitch.

NiP is looking confident about their game today as their blog states, “we expect nothing less than total domination.”

CSGO Servers Are Down Globally

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Thousands of users have started reporting that CSGO servers are going offline. The issue started only a few minutes ago but hasn’t been fixed yet.


Many Steam servers and game servers are down as a result, and CSGO servers are no exception to that. Reports show well over a thousand reports on CSGO servers being down across more than 60 different countries.

According to outage.report, the issue started around 03:00 AM IST, whereas, as of writing this article there have been 16+ reports so far.

CSGO Servers – expected time to resolve?

Considering the similar events that happened in the past which was resolved quickly within 30 Mins – 1 hour, we should expect that this might not take long as well.

The game has been at the receiving end of community backlash lately after a few updates were shipped. The updates were creating problems for several users in the game like having their steaming softwares blocked in the newly introduced trusted mode.

Valve is working hard to redempt their loss of player base, much recently due to these issues in the game.

From major FPS drops to stuttering, CSGO has been struggling lately to run smoothly. unparallelly, Riot’s Valorant is actively gaining playerbase due to its responsiveness in improving their system and platform. Not to forget their scheduled system update, which lacks entirely in the CSGO arena.

PUBG Mobile Esports Awards 2020 announced

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Tencent recently announced that they are launching PUBG Mobile Esports Awards. The announcement was made on the official handle of PUBG Mobile Esports on Twitter. The tweet stated that further information will be provided later on the same handle.


The awards will be distributed to the professional players that are playing in the PMWL Season 0. Fans from across the globe will get a chance to vote for their favourite players. The voting system is currently live in-game.

The voting system is from 15th July to 22nd July. In this period the voters will get ten vote per day. They can vote to multiple players at the same time. This is an opportunity for players to vote for their favourite player. The winner will be awarded the title of the “Most Popular Player” of PUBG Mobile World League Season Zero.

The voting section is divided into six regions and all the players participating in PMWL Season 0 are in the polls.

Region Selection

Live Ranking status for each region is provided with the a section for total number of votes for each player. You can keep the track of how all the players are doing.

A few lucky voters will get a chance to play with the “Most Popular Player” title winner in a performance match against other professional teams and influencers.

The “Most Popular Player” title winner of PMWL Season Zero will get a reward of $2000.

PUBG Mobile World Day One Results & Standings

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PMWL League Play begins from 14th July,2020. This commences the actual start of the month long League stage. The Opening weekend decided the group seeding, according to which the league will kick-start from today. Here we take a look at the day one results and how it went for the participants.


The League Play is divided into two parts and today, the first part began. All the twenty teams will face each other in the Round-robin format to fight for the 16 slots of the next part of this stage.

Match One – Erangel

The league started off with the oldest map in the game. The initial circle also was pretty centre oriented so no early fights were seen. Cetlz secured an early kill as they caught a player from No Chance Team without any loot.

Team FreeStyle finally made their debut in the world league today. They faced some complications earlier but were in time to participate. They wiped Reject Scarlett with a good co-ordinated push and gunpower. A big upset happened for Bigetron RA as they could not continue their domination in this first map and Celtz shut them down.

With a slow paced start, the match heated up in the later stages. Teams like TSM-Entity, NOVA-GodLike and No Chance Team took an early exit. RRQ Athena and Megastars were having a good run. They survived till the last circle. The match was finally closed by Megastars when they rained grenades on RRQ, wiping them subsequently and then final fight with Yodoo Gank.

Megastars won this map with 9 kills and 29 points. Yodoo Gank ranked second with 8 kills and 22 points. RRQ Athena came third with 10 kills and 20 points.

Match Two- Vikendi:

OR scout catches Valdus Martin off-guard in the same compound and kills him at the very start in a stealthy manner. A car blast brings down the number for Team FreeStyle to 3 players remaining.

The pace of this map is usually very slow and similar thing was happening in this match. Players were looking for an opportunity to grab some kills but were not successful. Only few skirmishes and some finishes could be seen till the clock ticks upto 15 minute mark.

Yodoo Gank was the first team to drop out of this map, which was unfortunate after their performance in the first match. The fights picked up pace in the later phases as the players were dropping like flies. Orange Rock infiltrated a compound occupied by MORPH Team and hold the exit door open for them. T1 capitalised on a trio fight and picked up good amount of kills.

Orange Rock dominated in the final circles with Scout entered in a rampage mode and made everything possible for his team. They ultimately won fought with Team IND and Celtz, wiped them both and won the match with huge amount of kills.

Orange Rock won the match with 16 kills and 36 points. GXR Celtz was second with 7 kills and 22 points. Team IND was third with 4 kills and 14 points.

Match Three- Erangel:

T1 struggled right from the start of this map. Their usual drop was contested by Valdus Esports as we saw from the Opening Weekend so they decided to drop in the surrounding compounds. T1 was trapped with scarce loot at their disposal in a compound. They were surrounded by King Of Gamers Club and got eliminated first in this game

The next few circles were pretty silent. Teams were reacting faster and occupied the centre of the zones to secure a better position. The circle shifted to the Eastern side with much of water mass inside, so the rotation into the zone was a hard part in this match.

Big names like RRQ Athena and Megastars dropped out very early in this match. As the rotations were hard, many teams struggled just to enter the zone. Orange Rock had a good momentum in this match but unfortunately could not make it to the final phases.

Team Bigetron RA managed to find their way into the zone and then put up a great show for audience with their impressive gameplay. They picked up kills from all the corners of the final circle and secured their victory.

Bigetron RA won the match with 11 kills and 31 points. No Chance Team was second with 8 kills and 22 points. BOX Gaming came third with 8 kills and 18 points.

Match Four- Vikendi:

The usual loot and rotate play style had a slight twist in this map as Celtz and U Level UP faced off each other. Celtz were at a man advantage but couldn’t utilize that upper hand as there was a bit of blunder by their side and a last player of U Level UP wiped them out.

T1 again struggled in this match and had an early exit. Similar thing happened to TSM-Entity as they could not win the fight against No Chance Team and were eliminated. A huge blunder occured from Team Secret as they were rotating in a single car, were spotted by RRQ Athena,could not put up a good fight and were easily eliminated by them.

This match was one-of-a-kind where the zone closed into the Dino Park area and was fully packed with players. The teams out of this area were in a very bad spot and were eliminated early on. As the match was closing in, the final circle ticked and still there were 18 players alive, which is very rare to see.

The zone fully favoured Team No Chance and they stacked high amount of kills with this advantage but a perfectly executed strategic outplay was seen from RRQ Athena. They were patient till the very last circle. They let No Chance and Yodoo Gank fight between themselves, and heal battle their way to win this match. It was one of the best matches that were ever played in the competitive PUBG Mobile.

RRQ Athena claim their victory with 8 kills and 28 points. No Chance Team were second with 11 kills and 25 points. Yodoo Gank was third with 14 kills and 24 points.

Match Five- Erangel:

An early fight between TSM-Entity and SynerGE marked the start of the last match of day one. Both the teams did some mistakes but TSM got rewarded with 3 kills and it was a good start for them.

The zone shifted in the northern part so the rush for getting into zone started. Some teams made mistakes on their decisions and were punished for it. RRQ Athena was caught by Orange Rock in rotations and killed two of their players. MORPH Team played on backfoot against a single player of RRQ Athena and had two casualties on their side.

Teams like RRQ, MORPH, Team IND dropped very early due to some misplays. A good fight between T1 and Orange Rock happened as zone was almost closing in on them. Good synergy from Orange Rock and and a perfect nade sealed the fate of T1.

The final circle was dominated by Team Secret as they kept all of their players intact. They were blessed with the final zone and seized the opportunity given.

Team Secret won the match with 8 kills and 28 points. King of Gamers club came second with 12 kills and 26 points. Orange Rock was third with 5 kills and 12 points.

PMWL League Play W1D1 Overall Standings:

Synopsis:

Day one of League Play was different from the games of the Opening Weekend. Teams analysed their gameplay and were seen using some different strategies and gameplay styles.

No Chance Team really stepped up their gameplay and performed on a next level. They were most consistent on the first day. They have no chicken dinners but constantly finished in the top five and collecting huge number of kills alongside. They must continue this gameplay to be on the top spot.

Watching Orange Rock on the second spot is no surprise. Thier consistent gameplay, their high fragging power and perfect decision making of their in-game leader granted them this spot. They were exceptional today with a great match of 16 kills chicken dinner. They are the team with highest amount of kills on the first day.

Other teams like Yodoo Gank, RRQ and Bigetron performed good but couldn’t match their dominance from the last week. They are still on the top 8 list so can still try for some better ranking.

The teams on second part of the scoreboard, especially the ones from 16 to 20 must rise their level of gameplay. If they perform in a similar manner, they will miss out on Super Weekend and will not be able to collect any points in the week one score board.

New CSGO update fixes performance issues after the Trusted Mode update

Valve has shipped out a small update which seemingly aims to fix the drastic performance issues which CSGO was facing after the Trusted Mode update which was introduced to CSGO a few days back.



After the initial introduction of the Trusted Mode, players started raising complaints across social media like Reddit and Twitter about the performance issues the update was causing to their games. The problems ranged from random frame skips and losses to sudden FPS drops in genera.

CSGO devs have addressed this issue in their blog through the June 13th update which attempts to eliminate the root cause of the problems.

According to the blog, these performance issues were being caused by “caused by third party applications repeatedly attempting to inject into CS:GO,” which has now been fixed.

Some third-party applications causing the game to crash have also apparently been fixed by the CSGO devs.

However, it’s important to note that the third party applications which were previously banned are likely still prohibited from injecting into the game, which might be bad news for streamers since some major streaming softwares were banned as a result of the Trusted Mode in CSGO.

Man Spent Rs 6 Lakh on a Gaming PC That Were Kept Safe for Wedding & Honeymoon

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How often do we see gamers going way out of their limits to get the best possible equipment for gaming? Every person that is deeply involved in gaming wants a gaming PC with good specs and the best possible components with it be it a mouse, a keyboard, a headphone or a gaming chair.


However, this person took it way too far. A Redditors fiancé spent around $ 8,000 USD to build a gaming PC for himself without even telling her. Moreover, they had kept this money safe for the future wedding & also the honeymoon trip.

As per the redditor, they already had laptops with them but he kept forcing her for other PC components and finally she had no other option than to agree to her fiancé. As days passed by a PC, a gaming desk & chair and other components started to get delivered. She then realized that something wasn’t right. When she asked her fiancé how much he had spent on all these items, he hesitated to reveal how much he had spent. Soon she got to know that he had spent all the money that they had saved for their wedding and honeymoon.

When the Redditor confronted her fiancé, he told her that he will earn all the money back, but she didn’t know that her life was going to take a huge turn. Her fiancé got so engrossed in gaming that he started playing the game day & night He was barely speaking to her and would only talk to her when he was hungry and needed something to eat. As per her, all he has been doing is gaming all day. He has even stopped doing the household chores and the work given to him to be done from home.

She was seeking for help on reddit, and many redditors came up with their reasons how a gaming PC could cost this much, and with several suggestions that might help her case.