PUBG Mobile India Series concluded with TSM-Entity becoming the champions and winning a huge prize amount of ₹20,00,000. TSM-Entity had a dominating start right from day one, and they finished day two in the same way.
It was a tough competition after the 11th match when Fnatic was almost close to challenge TSM-Entity for that top spot but the tables turned against Fnatic when they had a bad run in the last game. TSM-Entity were on a rampage mode in this tournament where they did not hesitate in any fight and that granted them their path to victory.
TSM-Entity has been dominating the PUBG Mobile Esports scenario for a while in South Asia region and the team has trust as its core value. It was stated in an interview after the final match, where Neyoo said that “They have blind trust on each other” and that’s what makes them a formidable team.
Along with the PUBG Mobile India Series win, the team won some individual and team awards under the special category.
Zgod won Rs.50,000 and “The Annihilator” award.
Jonathan won Rs.50,000 and “The Headshot Expert” award.
TSM-Entity won Rs.1,00,000 and “The Exterminator” award for the maximum number of kills.
TSM-Entity won Rs.1,00,000 and “The People’s Choice” award for being the most popular squad among the community.
PUBG Mobile India Series 2020 was announced recently and its finals are set to take place on 4th and 5th of July. Top 16 teams qualifying from a long race of pre-qualifiers till Semi-Finals are here to fight for the huge price pool of Rs 50,00,000.
Day One was full of unexpected zone shifts, strong gunfights and impressive strategic gameplays from the teams. Day one ended with Team TSM-Entity securing the first spot, followed by Fnatic and Team Mayhem.
Match One – Erangel –
Day one started with the most played map of the game .The usual meta of looting and rotations was seen in the first few minutes of the game. The zone was uniformly distributed in the Western side of the map. There was an early fight between Team Fnatic and Team Live-craft and emerged victorious. Team Live-craft was wiped very early by Fnatic and it was a good start for team Fnatic.
Many other fights took place where teams like IND and TSM-Entity were also seen wiping teams. As the match was entering its ending phase, all the fights were heated up and players were getting eliminated all over the map. The end zone was seen near Gatka areas and Team Mayhem secured the win.
Team Mayhem won the match with 7 kills and 27 points. Team Fnatic came second with 7 kills and 21 points. Team Tamilas were third with 11 kills and 18 points. TT Carry was the MVP of this match with 5 kills.
Match Two – Miramar –
The second match took place on the deserts of Miramar. The heat was more when two big names fought very early. Team Element and Fnatic went on a battle at the very start and there was a big upset for Fnatic as Element got better of them and wiped them out. Many of the new teams which entered the scene recently were also fighting toe-to-toe with the veterans .Team Celtz were wiped out by a new team named VST Esports.
Team Element continued their domination till the end and gave a hard time to all the teams trying to win. They secured the win in the end with a fight against U-MumbaEsports. Paansingh from Team Element made an impressive play when he knocked two players in the row while being on lowest possible health points. He was also the MVP of the match with 6 kills.
Team Element won the match with 15 kills and 35 points. U-MumbaEsports came second with 7 kills and 21 points. Team Mayhem came third with 2 kills and 12 points.
Match Three – Erangel –
The map which is like a home ground for many of the teams was played again on the third match. After a slow start with looting phase and some early skirmishes, the zone started to shrink in a uniform pattern towards the city of Pochinki. Many of the teams expected to fight an urban warfare and entered the city holding the nooks and corners but the zone took an unprecedented shift towards the outer areas and it was a huge upset to many teams. Some teams tried to enter the zone but were wiped in the process.
Team Fnatic still managed to pull a successful rotation and fight till the end circle but TSM-Entity dominated until the last and secured to win with 13 kills. Two grenade knocks from Zgod turned the tides into their favour and they won the match in a hard 2 vs 3 fight.Zgod was the MVP of the match with 4 kills.
TSM-Entity won the match with 13 kills and 33 points. Team Fnatic came second with 5 kills and 19 points. Team VST-VXT Esports came third with 6 kills and 13 points.
Match four – Vikendi –
The snowy terrain of Vikendi has its own meta of zone shifts towards the shore and map stretching long till the 30 minutes mark. Due to this all the teams are seen looting as soon as possible and then rotating towards the centre of first phase and finding a good compound to hold. Same thing happened here and fights were not seen in first few minutes.
The match was then a full chaos when the zone shifts took place at in the end. All the teams faced casualties and some were just wiped when they were trying to enter the zone. Team Fnatic were again consistent to enter the zones and take the necessary fights that ultimately led them towards the victory. Owais of Team Fnatic, also known as the brain of his team, was MVP of this match with 6 kills.
Team Fnatic won the match with 10 kills and 30 points. Dark Tangent Esports were second with 8 kills and 22 points. VST-VXT Esports came third with 7 kills and 15 points.
Match Five – Sanhok –
The grasslands and forest areas of Sanhok are very famous for some sneaky gameplays. The infamous Bootcamp was contested in between Team Orange Rock and Fnatic.
There was a neutral stance taken by both of them but it was just the silence before the storm because as their fights broke out, Team Element and TSM-Entity started to make the third party plays in between. All of them later disengaged and went on their separate ways but TSM-Entity managed to catch Element off-guard during water rotation and wiped them out completely.
The zone shrink speed is so fast in this map that every time a lot of players get eliminated just while trying to enter the last few circles. Same happened in this match and only a few players managed to survive.
A lone wolf from TSM-Entity was alive in between all this chaos and he pulled off a tricky outplay while surviving in water and then went on to get his team the second spot. Team Megastars won this map. SGE Seervi was the MVP of this match with 9 kills.
Team Synerge secured the first spot with 15 kills and 25 points. Team Megastars came second with 4 kills and 24 points. TSM-Entity was third with 7 kills and 21 points.
Match Six – Erangel –
The day came to end with again a match of Erangel. TSM-Entity again with their aggressive gameplay, saw a opportunity and engaged with Team Orange Rock and secured three kills right at the start of this map.
The circle was surprisingly the same as that of map three, in the starting phase, but ended in some different area.
The zone blessed TSM-Entity and they utilized it perfectly and managed to win the last map. Jonathan from TSM was the MVP of this match with 6 kills.
TSM Entity won this map with 13 kills and 33 points. Team DarkTangentEsports was second with 5 kills and 19 points. Team Tamilas came third with 3 kills and 13 points.
Synopsis:
The day was excellent for teams like TSM-Entity, Fnatic and Mayhem where these all teams were consistent in their games and did not disappoint their fans. They have to keep this consistency to be at the top in this race of Grand Finale.
Other teams in the top 8 region have to remain consistent and rise a little bit to try to get that top spot. They have to play all the remaining games in a very consistent manner to get the required points.
Teams like Orange Rock and Celtz have to step up their game and pull off some miracles to top the tables. The first day was very bad for these teams so they must reconsider what they are doing, plan for some better strategies and regain their original form.
Since late 2019, speculations started to surface about the oncoming of the Source 2 engine to CSGO. Leaks from various sources claimed that the Source 2 implementation to CSGO was already in progress and might hit the game before mid-2020.
The hype peaked at around April-May of 2020, where a leak from VNN Tyler claimed that the Source 2 engine for CSGO is ready to be dispatched. He also set a date for the release, which was May 18th, but the release didn’t occur back then. Now, another leak from VNN Tyler reveals that the CSGO devs might cancel the engine upgrade for CSGO entirely.
The Source 2 upgrade for CSGO would feature not only upgraded graphics, but also a whole lot of new stuff for players to enjoy. The most notable aspect of the upgrade would be the changes in the community map creation, which would be a lot easier and more convenient, and would consequently result in better quality and more optimized custom maps.
However, according to VNN Tyler, the devs are cancelling the upgrade primarily due to the difficulty in porting the vast number of community content to the new engine.
“They’re not going to do it,” Tyler says during his Twitch stream. “It’s not that they can’t port the game, it’s they can’t port the community content.” He further mentioned that Valve has no plan or means to allow the “massive backlog” of community created CSGO content.
The good news Tyler also hinted towards is that there lies a possibility of the port coming in the distant future. He said, regarding the port of the community content to Source 2, “Now if they ever figure that out, then it’ll happen. But as of now, not happening.”
Mikhail “Dosia” Stolyarov is a renowned pro in the CSGO scene and also a streamer on Twitch. The Twitch partner received a temporary ban on the platform which is set to last about a week due to some offensive words he said during his Livestream.
While it’s not rare for Dosia to shoot out occasional insults mixed with some Russian profanities while playing, the ban might be the result of Twitch implementing stricter measures on their platform regarding this sort of remarks.
He was seen saying the word “pidor” during one of his streams which translates to “gay” or “homosexual”. This insult may have led to the ban being imposed in such a short span of time since it can be seen as a homophobic word.
Dosia himself acknowledged his ban on Twitter although he mentioned that he was in a state of “full shock.” Although, he didn’t clarify in his tweet as to why he received the temporary ban.
After implementing stricter measures to curb harassment and toxicity on their streaming platform, Twitch has gone on a banning spree and banned several streamers from it, some of whom are extremely popular among fans of their respective games.
While these measures from Twitch have been met by resentment from many people in the community who’re upset at their loved streamers getting banned, a good number of viewers are also saying that it’ll help improve the gaming community in the long run by reducing toxicity in the platform and making Twitch a healthier and more family-friendly service overall.
Flashpoint is a tournament series owned by B-site. According to a DBLTAP report, Flashpoint is holding a payment of $150,000 from the Counter-Strike Professional Players Association for an agreement the two parties had made in March.
Flashpoint cited a number of reasons as to why they’re withholding the payment and claimed that the payment will be cleared once the issues are addressed by the CSPPA.
The allegations brought against CSPPA by Flashpoint can be summed up by the following points:
Unresponsiveness
Flashpoint claimed that the CSPPA had been unresponsive to their requests to sign paperwork enabling them to sign the products of a sponsor who were supposed to ship free test monitors for the players. The unresponsiveness from the side of CSPPA led to cancellation of the sponsorship.
Refusal to create fining procedures
Flashpoint alleged that the CSPPA refused to participate in “any reasonable discussion” related to the rules and fining procedures. Consequently, this made it difficult for Flashpoint to properly conduct the tournament while keeping the rule violators in check.
Failure to create a ranking system
CSPPA had allegedly agreed to create a third-party ranking system during the negotiations. However, Flashpoint claims that they failed to do so and “has done nothing whatsoever” to implement the system.
Conflict of interests
Flashpoint mentioned that after Heroic’s roster was sold to FunPlus earlier this year, the players disregarded the initial agreement made with FunPlus and proposed “severely above-market” salary demands. Flashpoint claims that these demands were based on advice from the leadership of CSPPA.
Soon after these allegations were made by Flashpoint, CSPPA responded to it through Twitter. They denied the allegations while simultaneously mentioning that these are irrelevant to their contract and that Flashpoint is obligated to pay them the sun of $165,000.
Flashpoint sent a letter to CSPPA on 29 June 2020. In the following two messages, the CSPPA address all the false allegations against the CSPPA (2/2). pic.twitter.com/91gTdlxk23
— Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association (@CSPPAgg) July 2, 2020
We all are well-aware about the in-game items that can be purchased in PUBG Mobile, be it player costumes, weapon skins, items, royal pass, premium crates and much more. A teenager from Kharar, Punjab started his PUBG Mobile journey a month ago and probably wanted to show his prowess in game when it came to super attractive costumes and weapon skins. So what he did exactly?
The teenager bought Royal Pass, virtual artillery & ammunition and several other in-game items such as costumes & weapon skins worth 16,00,000 Indian Rupees(16 Lakh) from his parent’s bank account to get a good hold of the game within a month’s time. As per his parents, the teenager had told them that he was pursuing some kind of online study and that’s why he was using his mobile for longer duration than usual.
17-year old teenager had access to three of his parent’s bank accounts. He used the same to make all his in-app purchases and to upgrade his PUBG Mobile profile. He even gifted several in-game items to his teammates as well. His parent’s were not aware of this for a long time. But when they went through their bank statements, they got to know what was eventually going on.
Teenager’s father is a government employee with a medical history and as per him, his son used all the savings that he had kept for his medical expenses. PUBG mobile addicted kid even spent the entirety of his mother’s Provident Fund (PF) amount and also spent some money from his own bank account as well.
As per the father, his son had the details of all the bank accounts as he used to make online payments for his mother’s kitty parties. He further added by saying that,
“We never knew that he was using our accounts for playing a game. Even the police didn’t help us as my son had deliberately spent it. He spent around 2 Lakh Rs of her mother’s PF amount which she transferred to the bank recently. I had kept some amount in his personal account and a majority of the amount was in my non-salaried savings account. All of it was gone in no time.”
His son also tricked him by smartly using all the three accounts to make the payments in small amount for the purchases. His father said, “After we received details from the bank, I found that on several occasions, he shuffled amount from one bank to another to avoid nil balance. He was using his mother’s phone for quite some time and she was not much vigilant to notice this.”
As a token of punishment, the father has asked his son to work at a scooter repair shop.
“I just can’t let him sit idle at home and cannot give him a mobile phone even for studying. He is working at a scooter repair shop so that he realises how hard it is to earn money. I am hopeless now as the money was saved for my son’s future.”
Ever since the early beta stages of VALORANT, Riot Games had promised an advanced anti-cheat system for their competitive shooter which would keep VALORANT’s cheater count in check, and it’s evident that Riot is delivering their promise as repeated events of cheaters getting banned surface.
Previously, there have been instances of cheaters complaining about permanent HWID they were getting due to cheating in the closed beta stages of the game. This time, once again another ban wave seems to have hit VALORANT as cheaters have started saying that cheats which cost over $100 were detected by Vanguard, which resulted in more than 3700 getting banned from the game.
On July 2nd, Anti-Cheat Police Department shared screenshots through Twitter showing the messages of several VALORANT cheaters in a discord server.
Ladies and gentleman I present to you saltiest dish served by yours truly https://t.co/9u5wTqlaA9
3700+ HWID Bans these people have paid 100$+ for cheats that are detected not only that their forums got hit offline at the same time 😮 pic.twitter.com/NxFZJg2Fz5
— Anti-Cheat Police Department 🕵️ (@AntiCheatPD) July 2, 2020
The screenshots show the cheaters complaining about Vanguard and stating that many of them got banned from the recent ban wave.
Anti-Cheat Police Department mentions that over 3700 people got caught in the ban wave, who’ll be unable to play the game unless they buy a new computer, a hefty price to pay for cheating in a video game.
This comes after a tweet from Riot Vanguard, which states about a new update shipped to the game which would notify players when a reported cheater gets banned.
Taking action to remove a large amount of cheaters from VALORANT permanently. Players who have submitted reports against these individuals will be notified if they are currently logged on. Thank you for helping keep VALORANT a safe and highly competitive gaming experience.
These steps taken by Vanguard to curb the number of cheaters and measures as drastic as permanently hardware banning cheaters from VALORANT will undoubtedly go a long way in securing the future of VALORANT as an esport, and as a competitive game in general. Since most other competitive FPS titles have a cheater problem, this will also make VALORANT an attraction for casual and hardcore players alike.
Byron ‘Reckful’ Bernstein has passed away at the age of 31. The news was confirmed by his girlfriend and fellow Twitch streamer BlueGoesMew along with his roommate.
Reckful was a former World of Warcraft and Hearthstone professional who represented Complexity between 2009-2011.
Leading up to the news of his suicide, Reckful’s Twitter feed already posed an alarming picture, with the 31-year-old seemingly apologising for people that have to deal with his insanity and that he might not be feeling in control of his actions.
ahh, i feel bad for anyone who has to deal with my insanity
The tweets also included a public request to his ex-girlfriend BeccaTilts,proposing her for marriage. BlueGoesMew has included a screenshot of her conversation with Reckful in the moments leading up to the tragedy.
God fucking dammit, I wish he picked up the phone. I knew he was sad but not how sad. I’m so devastated pic.twitter.com/XTG2WMVMrS
A voice of reason and hope for people dealing with mental health, Reckful has always been upfront with his battle against depression, especially after his eldest brother Guy committed suicide during his teenage days.
It is devastating to see a person like Reckful succumb to his demons but the uncountable souls he touched and helped will never be forgotten.
We take this time to urge everyone battling their own mental battle to not let it brew within and use all the help that is available; be it love, family or friends.
Also, we are linking Reckful’s Twitch Channel below, which is currently live with ReRuns of his old streams.
We are providing Suicide Prevention Helpline numbers down below in hopes that this will serve the purpose of what people like Reckful did and wanted to do.
The ESL One Cologne is set to take place from August 21-30 after being initially delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic throughout the globe. The tournament is hopefully scheduled to be held in the studio in Cologne.
The tournament has a prize pool of $1 million and will be one of the largest tournaments in the world. The teams are invited on the basis of their HLTV rankings and 8 teams have been invited directly to the main event including- Astralis, Natus Vincere, Liquid, 100 Thieves, fnatic, G2, mousesports, Faze. The other eight teams are placed in the Play-in stage including a few big teams as- Vitality and Ninjas in Pyjamas.
The first 18 teams invited to attend ESL One Cologne are:
These are your teams for #ESLOne Cologne 2020! We already have 16 of the top 20 teams as ranked by #ESLProTour points, with another 6 left to invite!
Last week, when the #MeToo movement was shaking the world of esports, Toby “TobiWan” Dawson was alleged by multiple women for misconduct caused to them. The allegations were followed by a huge support from a major part of the Dota 2 community and even TobiWan’s fellow co-casters urged for his removal from Dota.
After TobiWan’s initial responses to the allegations were met with hatred from many people in the scene, he refrained from making any further statements till today, on July 2nd when he finally released a statement informing fans about his situation.
He started his statement by saying that he took some time before issuing this statement so that he could get away from all the “social pressure” of the community, as well as some individuals in specific.
“It has been horrifying, watching my personal history being stripped of all context, warped with fiction, and being presented to the internet as fact,” TobiWan said in his statement. “Even more disturbing is the speed at which one side of the story was accepted as fact.”
TobiWan urged the accusers who alleged him for harassment to follow the “proper process” through law, instead of relying on “innuendo or evidence void of scrutiny from both perspectives.”
“I want to make it very clear: I am not guilty of any criminal offence,” TobiWan claimed.
The Dota 2 caster then left an apology for the people he had done wrong in the past or whose feelings he might have hurt and proceeded to mention that he’d be quitting the Dota 2 scene.
“As of this post, I will cease to have any public image in esports, I will never commentate again and my focus will turn fully to my family and finding a way to move on in life.”
