If you are that kind of personality who keeps on trying even though after experiencing worst of circumstances, you’ll love to meet people of the same spectrum. Part of this example matches with a Kolkata boy who is totally focused on achieving his dreams despite practical and geological differences between the goals.
The famous Kolkata videogamer Sabyasachi Bose who goes by the nick ‘antidote’ currently plays for a Mumbai-based CS:GO team Dare2Dream (formerly known as MxB). It is pretty hard to believe that the coordination and other essentials of being a team player also include physical presence but this 20-year-old passionate gamer going against the odds, plays for the team which is thousands of miles away from his location. Team MxB which is apparently among the top 4 teams in the country right now. With joint efforts of experienced players and fresh talent, MxB has earned themselves the country’s respect.
Risky Gaming and Dare2Dream will be flying to Malaysia to compete with the rest.
Hassles & contretemps does affect people certainly by hitting them at the toughest spot, but not for this gentleman. Sabyasachi has been a Counter Strike player for almost seven years now. And as the famous Russian proverb, Akula, kotorya Ne plavayet, Ne tonet, which expresses, “The shark that doesn’t swim, drowns.” This is the closest metaphor which defines the audacity of Bose. Today, this is a proud moment for us as the young talent is flying all the way to Malaysia to mark his presence with the team Dare2Dream, who have supported these bunch of new talents who deserve to be in the headlines. Although being vigorous into the community, Dare2Dream grabbed the attention immediately after winning the NVIDIA FPS Battle after beating the likes of Brutality and Overcome in the grand finals.
Dare2Dream will represent the Indian side with their lineup:
Sabyasachi ‘antidote’ Bose
Bhavin ‘HellrangeR’ Kotwani
Sharan “BusteRR” Dave
Mohit ‘SpawN’ Wakle
Sailesh ‘Blackhawk‘ Dalvi
Team Dare2Dream, which is supported by their corporate parental organization Drag2Death will be flying to Malaysia in a couple of weeks where they will present the talent along with our flag to the masses there. ASUS ROG Masters had two slots for the ROA (Rest of Asia) region. The second slot was taken in possession by UAE’s very famous and efficient team Risky Gaming who will be joining Team D2D from the ROA region.
Entity eSports Dota 2 qualifies for ROG Masters Malaysia in rest of Asia (ROA) qualifiers.
To take the slot they beat Five Rejects which included Sh1zzy from Pakistan, former player from Team Envy.
What Swifty has to say about this :
“The team is now going to practice even harder for Malaysia as we hold a lot of responsibility with regards to the Indian Dota 2 community and this will surely help us to build a motivation for all Dota 2 players in the country”
Moving to the game, a 46 minute action packed game with some morphling support on No_chance. Shizzy and squad were not able to hold on the Luna + Shadow Demon lineup which resulted Entity Esports to qualify for Malaysia.
Apart from Entity Esports qualifying for ROG masters, Malaysia. Another Indian team will be joining them, namely Aggressive 5 or Dare 2 Dream. Winner of A5 vs D2D game will also attend the Malaysia LAN.
The ROG Masters LAN event will take place from 11th – 13th November where Entity eSports Dota 2 squad will raise the Indian flag high.
Show some love to the boys and follow the Official facebook page of Entity eSports
Update : Joining Entity eSports will be Aggressive 5 as they qualify for the ROG Masters LAN at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They were abe to ta ke down Dare 2 Dream in the finals on rest of Asia (ROA) qualifiers.
IeSF’s 8the-Sports World Championships, held byInternational e-SportsFederation (IeSF) in Jakarta, Indonesia for four days, from 6th to 9th October 2016, will be broadcasted worldwide via multimedia.
The IeSF e-Sports World Championship, which holds its 8thconvention this year, is the only international e-Sports competition that is based on nationality.
The 2016 edition includes over 340 athletes from 32 countries in three game titles: League of Legends (LoL), HearthStone (HS), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: scintelatingGO).
To increase the global e-Sports fans and communities excitement and knowledge of the competition, the 8th e-Sports World Championship is including renown commentators and casters for each game title will be gathering force in Jakarta.
Esports World Championship 2016 – Talent
In League of Legends (LoL), Aaron “Sona” Chamberlain, Andrew “Spuddington” Spurrier, andReid “RAPiD” Melton will be commentating together.
Aaron “Sona” Chamberlain had prior experience of commentating on Vain Glory PAX 2016 and League Fest. Andrew “Spuddington” Spurrier commentated on EU Challenger Series. Reid “RAPiD” Melton is a familiar name for IeSF World Championship fans as he also participated in the last year’s competition as a commentator as well as League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), StarCraft 2 Proleague, and Afreeca StarCraft Brood War League (ASL).
In Hearthstone, Aaron “Sona” Chamberlain and Reid “RAPiD” Melton will take the microphone again scintillating banter and commentary.
The knowledge of both casters will be directly translated into improving the knowledge and the excitement of the viewers.
The two casters will truly benefit all viewers who have an interest in the title.
Andrew “Spuddington” Spurrier and Danny Kim, who commentated on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) in Australian e-Sports League, are grouped together as THE commentating team for CS: GO.
With this fabulous line-up of casters, main matches of each game will be broadcasted through internet media, Twitch IeSF Channel and IeSF Official Website in English.
While Twitch had a prior experience of broadcasting IeSF eSports World Championship, it is the first time the other channel going on live through its official website.
Gamers Worldwide have a brand new opportunity to win free gaming gifts online this week as website Gift4Gamers launch their next weekly competition. Starting from Monday, October 3rd, 2016, gamers can enter the giveaway to win a fantastic prize, absolutely free. Gift4Gamers have announced which items are available in this month’s big giveaway.
Gift4Gamers launched their last competition over a week ago. They have just announced their most recent ultimate gaming giveaway. The previous week’s prizes include MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G, Steel Series Rival Mouse, Logitech G230 Stereo Gaming Headset, and etc. Winners are selected and then announced on the website at the end of the week. They will receive a personal email from the organizers, arranging for free delivery of their prize.
Gift4Gamers – October Weekly #1
To be entered into the free draw, gamers have to complete small tasks online. These tasks will promote the site on social media. They are then entered into a random draw to win one of the free gifts on offer. The prizes change each month. So far they have included PlayStation 4, Steel Series Apex M800 Customizable Mechanical Keyboard, Steel Series Rival 100 Mouses, and Steel Series Rival Mouse Pads.
To enter into the competition, gamers need a Facebook and Google account. Simply visit the site’s Homepage and select Giveaway from the drop-down menu or select the Giveaway tab at the bottom of the page. Alternatively, access the site from the Gift4Gamers Facebook page.
Gamers then complete several tasks such as clicking Like on their Facebook page, subscribing to the site’s YouTube channel, and Sharing the site on Facebook. Each task equates to one entry to the draw, so a gamer receives three competition entries by completing all three tasks.
The prizes on offer change each month. Previous winners are free to enter the next competition, and any following competitions if they wish to do so. The draw is completely random and everyone stands an equal chance of being selected as a winner. Each person with one email address may only enter once. Anyone found violating the terms will be disqualified by the site’s organizers.
Following the exit of flusha, JW, and Krimz, Fnatic has been struggling to battle it out against the top teams. Fnatic, who was the top team exactly seven months ago ahead of SK, is now marked at the 17th spot.
Based on the results of the recent events and the participation, fnatic has now been moved down to the 17th spot by HLTV.org ranking system.
SK Gaming were at the 2nd position at the time when they conquered their fascinating win at the MLG Columbus. Until today, their incredible run has had no obstacles, and they have not yet dropped in ranking.
CS:GO Top teams in the world
SK
Virtus.pro
Natus Vincere
Ninjas In Pyjamas
Cloud9
Liquid
Dignitas
G2
EnVyUs
Astralis
GODSENT
OpTiC
Immortals
Heroic
FaZe
Mousesports
Fnatic
Flipsid3
EchoFoX
TyLoo
Although, Natus Vincere winning the title of ESL One New York, Virtus.pro still manages to sneak into the top 2 spots somehow with over a 100 points leap. Also to mark that GODSENT, which has fnatic’s fantastic four, is 6 spots above fnatic.
Valve has announced DotA 2 – The Boston Major which will be hosted by PGL in December 2016, marking this year’s third major.
The Boston Major will be presented by PGL at Wang Theater in Boston, USA. The main event is scheduled from December 7 to 10th.
The Boston Major
A total of Sixteen teams will be battling in the form of a single-elimination playoff bracket in a best of three games, with the best of five being played for grand finals. The prize pool of the event marks $30,00,000. The group stages will be played from 3rd until 4th December which will determine the teams advancing to the playoffs. The main event is scheduled to be from December 7th to 10th in Boston.
Those who wish to attend the main event can start buying their tickets from October 14th. The open qualifiers and regional qualifiers will run from October 23rd to 30th.
In a disheartening turn of events for the 23 year old professional Call of Duty gamer Phillip ‘Phizzurp’ Klemenov. It is believed that Phizzurp passed away in a horrific car accident this morning.
A player belonging to H2k, Phizzurp was streaming only hours ago before being succumbed to serious injuries.News of his death reached to the media this morning via his girlfriend who shared an emotional video explaining the whole situation.
Alcohol and over-speeding is believed to be the cause of this tragic accident said Sgt. Baumfalk from the Aura Police Department. According to the officers, a black Infinity vehicle lost control and ended up on the sidewalk via several trees and a light pole.
Other than Philip, his girlfriend Adrianna was occupied in the car which faced a major accident. “Phil lost control of the car, we flipped into a pole and through three trees. I was the only one that was conscious and I just want to let you guys know. He was a great guy he did not deserve this. Phil is such a good man and I loved him so much. He was so kind,” said Adrianna.
Our blessings goes to Philip’s family and friends who are right now in a shock state.
Valve today released the latest version of the game with jumping accuracy fixes and a long-seen update on major rifle sounds. The update is an answer to the community criticism of the inaccuracy of weapons such as SSG08 and Mag-7 mid-air.
The update – 37.3 MB – also marks the final round of sound changes of the weapons. AK-47, M4-A1 and M4-A4 will now have a new audible mechanism in the game.
After we revealed Valve’s plan to not have another major this year. ELEAGUE has now announced that they will be taking charge of hosting the first CSGO major of 2017. The ELEAGUE major will be held from 22nd to 29th January 2017.
The tenth CSGO major will be a part of Valve’s annual million dollar mega-fest and ELEAGUE’s first. The ELEAGUE major will feature $1 million prize pool.
ELEAGUE Season 1 trophy
The ELEAGUE major will feature eight eliminated teams from ESL Cologne 2016 and another set of 8 teams which will be determined through regional minor qualifiers. The final battle will be played between the eight legends from the previous major and the eight teams which get qualified through the major qualifiers at the ELEAGUE theaters from 15th to 18th December in Atlanta.
The joint 16 teams will compete for the CSGO major championship, the event will be broadcasted on both Twitch and TBS networks. This will mark the first Valve Major to have ever been aired live on television networks.
“When we launched ELEAGUE, we set out to deliver a best-in-class experience for esports teams, players, and fans and we’re grateful to the entire community for their ongoing support and engagement with our content. Less than one year since ELEAGUE’s debut, we’re thrilled to host the next CS:GO Major Championship and we will utilize all of our collective resources to help further elevate this prestigious event.” – Lenny Daniels, President of Turner Sports.
ELEAGUE Major
ELEAGUE will host CS:GO Major Championship event from Sunday through Wednesday, Jan. 22-25, with Fox Theatre as the host venue, Friday through Sunday, Jan. 27-29.
Over a million rupees got traded at the MountainDew’s DewArena festival at the Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon on 25th of September in the groundbreaking new event which set a benchmark for the gaming events in India. PepsiCo., the company behind the beverage Mountain Dew, concluded the event swiftly as they handed over the prize cheques totaling to Rs. 10,00,000 INR.
The reporting time to the venue on the final day was 09:00 AM in the morning, the teams, journalists, analysts, casters and the whole crew were asked to report. The doors to the arena opened at 11:00 for the regular attendees. The venue, Kingdom Of Dreams (KOD) was in itself a remarkable achievement for an industry as fragmented as ours. The arena was one of the theaters of KoD, Showshaa Theatre. The lights, ambiance, and the stage looked unanimously magnificent.
Opening Ceremony
The prominent host for Gadgets360, NDTV, Mr. Rajeev Makhni took the responsibility and conducted the opening ceremony at the event. The hydraulic stage entry extensively supported the mood of the people. Naseeb Puri, the Director of Mountain Dew, was also present at the venue for the entire time. She looked tongue-tied watching the setup and enthusiastically competitive gathering.
Dew Arena gaming championship which regarding in partnership with ESL India which got overwhelming numbers regarding registrations. More than 75,000 gamers registered for the India’s largest gaming championship compared to the predicted records of not more than 35,000.
“We are delighted with the response to Dew Arena, which has made it India’s biggest gaming championship ever. Gaming in India is gaining increasing popularity across platforms, and we hope that Dew Arena will give a welcome impetus to spurring the growth of this genre and helping celebrate our heroes like never before,” saidNaseeb Puri, Director-Mountain Dew, PepsiCo India.
People started to turn in for the event at around 12, and the games went live from 13:00 after a few uninvited technical glitches delayed the game. There were 26 finalists from all the different games. The stage was well set for the entry of the participants such that they had their best moments. The hydraulic stage arrival was one of the finest ceremonies I have ever witnessed. The charm on the face of the participants said it all. They earned it!
The highlights
DewArena had those classy details, and the venue was decorated to look like an international esports event. The top quality management of lights and on-screen visuals added a lot to the overall experience of the visitors.
The green theme; It was these greenish lights all over the stadium, of course, it had to be to the set the tone of the mountain dew theme,
Invisible Wings and Beyond Infinity end their journey on a peak as they look forward to their new organization, Entity Esports,
Bari Naseer Anwar, the IGL of Beyond Infinity retires from competitive esports,
Simar ‘psy’ Sethi along with Raunak ‘Crowley’ Sen will soon be seen on the bottle of MountainDew’s GameFuel,
Karthik Gopal’s stunning impersonation capabilities of superhero voices,
The event used the international standard noise-cancellation headphones to eliminate any conflicts during the game’s live shout cast,
The special guest from Flipsid3 Tactics had a valuable experience at the event.
The games
Street Fighter 4 was the first game to begin the grand finals. The game even pulled some nostalgic childhood moments for most of the crowd. In a best of three regulation of the match, Syed Ahmad Kamal came on top who beat his opponent 2-1. Street Fighter 4 is that kind of game which we have played for at least once in our lifetime, the game successfully adorned the atmosphere of the arena. The second set aligned was DotA 2 between Invisible Wings and Beyond Infinity (both merged into one, now called Entity Esports; read more). The game was cast by Veewak and CloudX from AFKGaming. The first map of the match had its moments with Invisible Wings dominantly winning over their counterparts. The second game even was close, but in the end, Beyond Infinity took it in their favor propelling the grand finals to have a third face-off between the two.
Invisible Wings won the final game and took home the significant share of the pool.
The next game was Forza; it attracted more viewers because of the nature of the match. The racing extinct we all have inside us, the crowd was cheering every time there was a significant drift. Even this was a best of three maps, where Khyat Kanda took it all after the scores leveled at 1-1 in the first two rounds of the game.
FIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Cosplayers
Among all the several cosplayers present at the venue, Iron-Wolverine had the most innovative dressing and features to the suit. Thus, he was declared the winner!
Energetic ambiance at the arena
Whenever it comes to football, Indians don’t disappoint in ‘cheering’ the people up. Such was the aura of the crowd inside Dew Arena when the two last participants faced-off. Running to score more goals from left to right, the atmosphere got uplifted by the crowd as they were committed entirely to the game. Whenever the ball was near the penalty box, the audience would go mad screaming, “GOAL GOAL GOAL!”. The FIFA match was fun to watch as it replicated the most argued battleship. It was between Ronaldo and Messii!!
Bari retires from competitive gaming after DewArena.
FIFA championship was conquered by Mohammad Farhan who flew from Bangalore to attend this mega-fest, he got a championship achievement after his name and Rs. 75,000 in the bank!
The last but not the least game played, the most intense we call India’s most favorite FPS game, Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The hype surged to the maximum level for the entire day when it was announced that the teams would take their place and the games begin in less than 30 minutes. It was about to be one hell of a match as Invisible Wings were facing their best rivals Team Brutality fighting for dignity prominently. The CS:GO event was responsibly taken care of by the folks at SoStronk with Anish Nemz on the server side and Anand Shanker at the production, Sudhen ‘Bleh’ Wahengbam and Prashant ‘Aequetias’ Prabhakar delivered excellent casting and analysis for the finals.
The first map played was Mirage which is known to be Brutality’s best map. It was pretty one-sided affair for grand finals as Brutality comfortably won the game by 16-7 leaving Invisible Wings in a stature of do or die. The second map and the following one looked scary for the Brutals, a map as strong as train favoring the Invisible Wings side and the final map (if there was any) de_nuke, on which both teams have not been great. The second map which was supposed to be favoring the Invisible Wings side engraved the predicted outcome but in a pretty unexpected root. The game was so close and intense that it drove the people in the audience right into the rough streets as they were booing Brutals side and cheering Invisible Wings (psy being an IGL or Invisible Wings is a Delhi resident, hence the home team). V3nom played out of his mind for the entire map by starting off an ace in the right second round. The game, however, ended for Invisible Wings after Simar ‘psy’ Sethi stood up for his team alongside Mithil ‘MilthilF’ Sawant.
Simar ‘psy’ Sethi looked tense after losing the first map against Brutality
The third and the final map of the game was Nuke, on which we have not seen Brutality performed earlier but we did see Invisible Wings losing 1-16 against Destructive 5 a couple of days ago at the ESWC 2016 semi-finals. The face-off was pretty well balanced between the two side; they were scoring back and forth. Invisible Wings, however, did manage to eliminate Brutality at the later stage of the map in both occasions. What we could gather from the game was that Brutality were unable to close the matches in their favor even though having a marginal lead against the IW side.
Invisible Wings after winning the DotA 2 championship won the grand finals of DewArena CS:GO as well, beating Brutality 2-1. The majority of the prize pool was entitled to them.
The Winners
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Winners of CS:GO Invisible Wings
Winners of DotA 2: Invisible Wings
Winner of FIFA 16
Winner of Street Fighter 4
Winner of Forza Motorsport 6
The production and the crew
It was all lead by Gautam Virk, the production head at NODWIN Gaming at the Dew Arena LAN finals. It takes an efficient team to deliver the event at such perfection with precision. The guys at NODWIN surely had their mindset clear during the preparation and planning of the event. The crew at DewArena was pretty big and segmented into different groups each looking after their section of the event. The duties were well fulfilled by everyone present at the event, be it the casters, hosts or the admins for the game. The lead in-house crew of Dew Arena was:
Anup Dustakar
Gautam Virk
Aorin Shariyari
Shefali Johnson
Vageesh K. Bhan
Vishal Gupta
Kanwardeep Singh
People failed to turn up
We can’t be on the both sides of the coins; such is your stand when it comes to the development of eSports in India. You can’t be complaining and not attending the event in your city at the same time. The central region of the country disappointed when it came to joining hands and force the change. People didn’t care to be at the venue. It was far from being houseful even when the capacity of the auditorium was below 300. An even of this caliber which saw massive registration numbers of over 75,000 failed to gather audience at the finals? The numbers will look naive if I tell you the concurrent viewers at the venue.
Thankful to those who turned in even though without having the proper knowledge about the game.
The maximum number of spectators which recorded during FIFA – CSGO was roughly around 70! At one point in time during the DotA 2 game, it was so frustrating to see a crowd of not more than 24 people. And statistically, the crew (including media, participants, shout casters and production team) of the event was substantially higher than the number of the spectators. I can understand that the scarcity was due to the lack of promotion and being particular about the venue before the event. But when there was the young audience at the venue some with their families and some with non-gamers colleagues, was it a tough job for us as gamers to find out about India’s largest gaming festival and be present there to witness it live?
The answer, of course, is no, and the harsh reality is we as “gamers” don’t care and don’t intend to indulge to support something which needs one. The event was so well organized and deserved to be action-packed. But spectators failed to be there. Surprisingly thousands turned into the live streams to enjoy at the back of their monitor screens. Imagine what will it take to replicate another event of the same level. Would you support something with millions of rupees when the auditorium has 50 people? From a general perspective and as a spectator, it looked like that the event was executed in not less than INR 1 crore and it on-site there were 500+ people in the entire day, take your time and calculate the cost of one attendee.
