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The winners and losers of Day 1 at ESL India Premiership Challenger #1

Deepak Ojha
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The winners and losers of Day 1 at ESL India Premiership Challenger #1

ESL India Premiership kicked-off with their regular announced Challenger series today and we have the complete report of the development on the very first day of ESL India Premiership. The first day of the event featured some of the games from both CS:GO and DotA 2, which were streamed live on Twitch after innumerable glitches in the setup, and were also resolved from time to time as the day progressed. ESL India Premiership Challenger #1 will be a two-day event and will conclude on 30th of July 2016.

The games overview

Esl INdia Challengers #1

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Quarter-finals

The CS:GO matches which were scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM (Indian Standard Time) witnessed massive delays as the matches finally began 4 hours late than scheduled time, at 16:00 PM (IST). Cast by Bleh and Aequitas of SoStronk, the first quarter-final was to be played between Team Brutality and Team Goutfits scheduled at 12:00 PM which was later on swapped with a DotA 2 game Beyond Infinity vs Standin 5 because of the unidentified technical obstacle in one the Team Brutality’s members. The first CS:GO game of the day was convinced a rather one-sided affair for Brutals as they disrespectfully thrashed their opponents Team Goutfits from Calcutta, out of the tournament with a strong scoreline of 16-1 on Brutality’s favorite map, Mirage, leaving the team in clouded thoughts of dubiosity.

The following match between SemperX and Dare2Dream (also from Calcutta) was pretty interesting to watch as the favorites for the match SemperX had the old-school beast couple ‘The Bhatia brothers!’ (WuZz and PeXxer) who had their performances replicated from the era of their Counter-Strike 1.6 as they were able to beat Dare2Dream 16-11 comfortably on cobblestone. The significant comparison of the players from the days of Counter Strike 1.6, necessarily was to shout out to the guys on the team and also greeting them with best wishes as they made into the top 4 teams of CS:GO in India after a trajectory difference. SemperX will face Team Brutality in the semi-finals. The third match, Invisible Wings vs WeBreakTeams was a hell of a match, no, not in terms of the quality of the match, but due to the delays. The match, unfortunately, had to be reset thrice which progressed later on which ended up with Invisible Wings beating WeBreakTeams by 16-8 on cache.

The fourth and final match of the day as per the schedule was between Team Overcome and GoEasy, which was by far predicted correctly by the analysis desk and the community people who forecasted an easy win for Overcome, which held on its fate and the match ended comfortably in favor of Team Overcome, GoEasy could only get 4 rounds on the board and got knocked out of the tournament with the scoreline of 4-16. The second semi-finals were then destined to be between Team Overcome and Invisible Wings for the CS:GO stream.

Semi-finals

Entering into the finals of CS:GO ESL India Premiership Challenger #1 was with no doubt the tournament favorites, Team Brutality, which beat SemperX 16-8 on Dust2 in the semi-finals. The second semi-finals was also a dominant show by Invisible Wings as they completely outplayed Team Overcome with a monstrous performance by Simar ‘psy’ Sethi who utterly destroyed the dreams of Team Overcome and closed the map at 16-8 on de_train. It will be Invisible Wings vs Team Brutality in the grand finals of CS:GO – ESL One Premiership Challenger #1 tomorrow at 2:00 PM which will be a best of three matchups.

DotA 2

The DotA 2 matches, which were streamed by CloudX of AFK Gaming, were seen running smoothly. With few matches played offline and the rest being broadcasted live, the results of the matches were favorable as Beyond Infinity, Aggressive 5, xRg and Invisible Wings were advanced to the semi-finals. The very first team to enter into the finals of DotA 2 ESL India Premiership – Challenger #1 were undoubtedly Beyond Infinity as they beat Aggressive in the first semi-finals. And on the other hand, Invisible Wings will be playing Beyond Infinity in the finals of Challenger #1.

TL;DR- In the grand finals of ESL India Premiership Challenger Cup #1 tomorrow, Invisible Wings will face Team Brutality and Beyond Infinity in Counter Strike: Global Offensive and DotA 2 respectively.

Event execution – The positives

India hasn’t seen any large scale event of such level and the credits are due for Nodwin Gaming, ESL and the sponsors ASUS and HyperX for making this event possible. The venue is surely jaw-dropping as it seems like the setup has been constructed for International level events, and since ESL has been taking care of the majors in India, this should quiet be a benchmarking theme set for the event organizers out there looking to assemble gamers at a place.

Another point to be noted is that, ESL India Premiership, the parent series to the Challenger Cup #1 was launched a couple of months ago without any sponsors, the supporters have later joined the brigade which also suggests the trust and significance of the ESL’s continued vision for the growth of the sport in India. Of course we had BYOC back then in the CS 1.6 times, but the setup and the production quality of this level were never foreseen so soon to be available to us. The conviction by the moderators, administrators, the staff entirely exhibited

The conviction held by the moderators, administrators, the staff entirely exhibited the intentions and patience of the people out there. It was really a test of patience for the team behind the scenes to pull this thing off without getting agitated even though the event ran at the utmost delay and out of the schedule. Cheers guys!

Things to get resolved for better finals tomorrow and following events

ESL India Premiership Challenger #1
The main stage setup for ESL India Premiership Challenger Cup #1

Technical glitches, delays

There is no doubt about the intentions of the organizers, but sometimes things don’t go your way and the victim isn’t solely you.  The unnecessary delays and change of schedule were a bit too much for an event of this caliber. Viewing it from the perspective of the attendees or the visitors who planned to come to the venue to know about this emerging industry would have been surely disappointed by looking at the way things were going.

The delays were really really massive and turning a blind eye to the technical glitches, it was the viewers and the participants who were the victims. Not being ignorant of the existence of these petty issues in a larger event, but imagine if you were one of the people sitting in the audience waiting for a match to begin and you witness that almost all the matches have had delays back and forth.

 The LED Screen for Audience

I am not sure how relevant will this appear to the readers and to the organizers of the event but thought that it is our responsibility to share the opinions if it makes a difference. The LED Screen right behind the playing setup can quite arise controversies if there is any misuse observed and the result will by then be irreversible. From my POV, I can easily visualize any of the members of the team who can look around to have a sneaky glance onto the screen and can communicate the valuable information over to their teammates which will surely give them an unethical advantage over the opponents.

I am not accusing anybody of doing so, but that seems possible to me. And to counter the argument that the organizers have set cameras on the teams, that might not be a very feasible solution to this as nobody can monitor the 10 players playing at the same time. The solution to this could be an artificial wall or a back-drop just behind the players’ sitting arrangement so it is entirely impossible for them to gather some information through misconduct. And to back my point I asked some of the professionals about their views, Karan ‘Excalibur’ Mhawadkar of Team Invictus said, “They wouldn’t look back, but if they do, it is easily visible.”

Brackets of ESL India Premiership Challenger #1

Deepak Ojha
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Brackets of ESL India Premiership Challenger #1

The hopes are high with the players, teams, and organization in this fascinating event which is destined to be revolutionizing the core fundamentals of e-gaming in India. The event is scheduled to be starting at 12:00 PM IST today with CS:GO, DotA 2 and Hearthstone aligned for the day and the following.

The ESL India Premiership Challenger #1 starts with the quarter-finals with the following teams playing in the brackets today:

CS:GO

CSGO brackets

DotA 2

TBA..

ESL India Premiership Challenger #1 – Meet the warriors

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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ESL India Premiership Challenger #1 – Meet the warriors

India’s most awaited LAN event is down the line and will be presented to the world tomorrow. Top 8 teams from the country will battle for the prize pool of over ₹ 10,00,000 INR.

The Venue selected by the organizers is in Pune, players of CS:GO, DotA II, and Hearthstone will be seen gathered together at Alpha Bachat Bhavan, Pune on 28th July 2016 to compete against their rivals and bring themselves the trophy along with the reputation of being the best in the country in their particular skills.

ESL India Premiership – Challenger #1

Esl India Premiership

The top 8 DotA II teams competing:

  • Beyond Infinity
    • Bari “ZeDisBuGG” Anwar
    • Moin “NO_Chanc3” Ejaz
    • Prasad “Battosai” Nalawade
    • Balaji “Blizzard” Ramnarayan
    • Jeet “Swifty” Kundra
  • Accelerate
    • Aditya “Az7y-” Vaidya
    • Pranay “SaD^” Iyer
    • Subham “SmOke” Kahali
    • Suparno “Zeus” Panda
    • Omkar “PasoL” Urunkar
  • xRG
    • Mihir “Gondy” Shroff.
    • Sajjad “Sam” Sayani.
    • Dhvanit “Negi” Negi.
    • Pratik “Bluefrog” Rane.
    • Rahul “The_art_of_feeding” chaudhary
  • Aggressive 5
    • Rohan “DruzZ” Gokhale
    • Rohit “krowaz” Kakde
    • Pratik ” Maze” Lad
    • Arjun “Playa” Barde
    • Archit “Icecubes” Pradhan
  • Devils in the dark
    • Aadeesh “hailing” Subramanian
    • Vivek “antagonist” Chandra
    • Akshay “L” vaity
    • Mandeep “venom” jangu
    • Indrajeet “gifty” singh
  • Meet your Makers
    • Tejas “ReApeR” Chaudhari
    • Sagar “Patience” Baviskar
    • Gaurav “In.YouR.DreamS” Mahajan
    • Akshay “Insence” Ghuge
    • Ajinkya “AJ” Gajendragadkar
  • Invisible Wings
    • Raunak “Crowley” Sen
    • Puneet “Pandemic” Sangolekar
    • Ketan “Merciless” Goyal
    • Darshan “A35” Bata
    • Harsh “Archmage” Shah
  • Standin 5
    • Arshad “GloriousInvocation” Khan
    • Chirag “Just My Luck” Sanghavi
    • Prashant “711Pashu” Ketaraju
    • Cedric “kiko” Amunra
    • Harshit “Xark” Shrestha

The top 8 CS:GO teams competing:

  • Team Brutality
    • Ankit ‘V3nom Panth
    • Arun ‘Kundya’ Kandpal
    • Aakash ‘RiX’ More
    • Ayush ‘astaRRRRR’ Deora
    • Jay ‘FOX’ Shah
  • Invisible Wings
    • Ritesh ‘RitZ’ Shah
    • Manan ‘Manan’ Bhat
    • Mithil ‘MithilF’ Sawant
    • Simar ‘psy’ Sethi
    • Akshay ‘Kappa’ Sinkar
  • Team Overcome
    • Anuj ‘Amaretsu’ Sharma
    • Divesh ‘Monster’ Shetty
    • Shoeb ‘Minato’ Shaul
    • Aaqib ‘Bababiceps’ Dinganka
  • Team Goutfits
    • Raju ‘Veton’ Chanda
    • Sandip ‘Jaguar’ Singh
    • Sagnik ‘HellFighter’ Roy
    • Biswadeep ‘V1cee’ Das
    • Soubhik ‘ToRReZ’ Saha
  • Team Dare2Dream
    • Sabyasachi ‘Antidote’ Bose
    • Suman ‘3N3RGY’ Dhar
    • Souvik ‘LuckY’ Paul
    • Gaurav ‘RuleZ’ Roy
    • Raja ‘Riomeister’ Saikai
  • We Break teams
    • Vikrant ‘Hacker’ Pujari
    • Anurag ‘Medellin’ Mantri
    • Moin ‘Friction’ Shaikh
    • Sachin ‘PWN’ Gaikwad
    • Sunny ‘Recoilmaster’ Ghadge
  • SemperX
    • Hasnain ‘Impale’ Sayed
    • Pranay ‘WuZz’ Bhatia
    • Kunal ‘PeXxer’ Bhatia
    • Sahil ‘DK’ Kakar
    • Shubham ‘Arcane’ Singh
  • GoEASY
    • Ashish ‘K4Ben’ Konde
    • Omkar ‘Vandal’ Thorat
    • Kiran ‘S1z3’ Kanade
    • Rahul ‘ReX^ /N/’ Patil
    • Yogesh ‘Fantastic’ Mewada

ESL India Premiership runs in a format which includes 6 Online Starter cups for each game, 2 Open qualifiers, 2 Challenger Cups and a Masters cup which is the most awaited event so far in the country. Premiership Challenger #1 will witness 3 starter cup winners and runner ups which make a total of 6 teams and 1 slot will be filled by the winning team from the offline qualifiers and the last slot is an invite-only.

Open qualifiers will be held near the Challenger Venue where from all over the country can assemble and fight for the slot in Challenger. The winners and the runner ups of each starter cups are also awarded a prize pool of 35,000 INR and a slot in Challenger cup.

1: 25,000 INR

2: 10,000 INR

Challenger #1 – Format

Challenger will include the teams who are the finalists and semi-finalists of the starter cups and the winner of open qualifiers. One team will also be invited to the event directly which will make the count of teams playing the Challenger cup to 8.

The prize pool for Challenger #1 – Dota 2 section is 3,95,000 INR divided into 8 teams.

1: 1,50,000 INR

2: 50,000 INR

3rd  -8th : 35,500 INR

The format for the event will be best of one – Single elimination.

Viewers can also spectate the live matches at the venue by booking their tickets on Bookmyshow.com

Address:
Alpha Bachat Bhavan
HH Prince Aga Khan Rd,
Agarkar Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411001

Fnatic and Na’vi storm into the Semi-finals of the ELEAGUE Season 1

Kanishka Thakur
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Fnatic and Na’vi storm into the Semi-finals of the ELEAGUE Season 1

The ELEAGUE Season 1 came down to its playoff stage where Fnatic took on Envyus in the first quarter-final. The first map of the game was Cobblestone.

Things started pretty well for fnatic as they won the first pistol round and led 3-0 in the map. Envyus weren’t left behind for quite long and picked up some important rounds and equalized the scoreline to 4-4. Some important clutch rounds by ‘Krimz’ helped fnatic secure the first half with a scoreline of 9-6. Fnatic extended their lead in the map by winning the second half pistol round and taking the scoreline to 12-6. However ‘apEX’ picked up some important rounds for his team and Envyus started to comeback on the map. The comeback didn’t last for too long and fnatic closed down the map with a scoreline of 16-13.

Image Courtesy :- hltv.org

The second map of the match was Dust2 and Envyus starting on the CT Side secured the first pistol round with the help of ‘Kenny’s 1v2 clutch. The french team looked pretty confident in this map and took over six rounds in a row. Although fnatic replied back as they got a streak of five rounds to come out on top and closing the half 8-7. In the second pistol round, we saw some amazing play by ‘JW’ who picked up four incredible picks securing the round for his team. From there it was all over for Envyus as Fnatic led their way to victory and closed down the map 16-7 and becoming the first semi-finalists of the ELEAGUE Season 1.
The second match of the ELEAGUE Season 1 playoffs was between Na’Vi and Cloud9. The first map of the game was Overpass.

Cloud9 starting on the T-side of the map secured the first pistol round with a B site execution. In the buy round, ‘Edward’ stepped in for his team and picked up a quad kill helping his team open the scoreboard. The following rounds went back and fourth and ended up 8-7 in the favor of Cloud9. Na’Vi started pretty well in the second half as they won the pistol round and later on followed by winning seven of the first eight rounds to get to the match point. But Cloud9 didn’t lose hope and came back even stronger equalizing the scoreline to 15-15 and taking the map into overtime. Despite Na’vi losing some important rounds, they played a flawless offensive game and closed down the map 19-15.

The second map of the game was decided was Dust2. As the game started Na’vi was off to a great start by picking up the first pistol round and some crucial buy rounds as well. Despite off this Cloud9 backed themselves up and won five rounds in a row to secure an 8-7 lead in the first half. In the second half pistol round, Cloud9 held on to the site pretty well and secured the round. With the help of ‘shroud’ and ‘Stewie2k’ cloud9 picked up some important rounds in the Ct side and later on closed down the map 16-9 taking the match to the third and the final map Cobblestone.

The third map of the game was Cobblestone and Cloud9 started off things pretty well by picking up the pistol round and then leading the map 6-1. Despite this Na’Vi picked some important rounds but trailed behind by 6-9 in the first half. After switching to the CT- side, Na’Vi came back stronger than ever and took a comfortable lead for the first time on the map. With the help of ‘nothing’ Cloud9 again started to make a comeback by equalizing the scoreline to 14-14. However Na’Vi closed down the map 16-14 and progressed to the semi-finals of the ELEAGUE Season 1.

I am born in VP, will die with Virtus.pro: pashaBiceps

Deepak Ojha
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I am born in VP, will die with Virtus.pro: pashaBiceps

The recent shuffling in the professional CS:GO scene has knocked doors of the many, but not Virtus pro. In an interview recently with Cybersports.ru, Virtus.pro’s prominent rifler pasha marked the words affirming that he won’t ever play for any other team except Virtus.pro.

pasha csgo

Jarosław ‘pasha’ Jarząbkowski, the 28 year old athlete is famous among CS fans for his generosity. He is also an active streamer and is known to entertain his viewers at maximum. Pasha, who earned fame for being a part of the Polish lineup Golden Five is one of the founding members of Virtus. Pro and have been sticking around with the same Polish lineup and his mates from more than a decade. The tags he has rendered and beard with may have been different, but by heart, he always has been with his friends-and-mates, NEO, TaZ and Kuben.

Pasha was even among the top 3 contenders for the best CS:GO player in the world rated by HLTV.org in 2014. When he was asked why don’t they change rosters like the rest of the world and are still one of the top Counter Strike organization to have ever existed. His response will peak the level of respect you had for this man.

Pasha responded.

You know, after the storm there is always rain. You can either part ways or wait for the rain to beat everyone. Oh, it’s actually the sun that comes after the rain! Anyway, this is about our team. You can’t always be on top, and that’s okay. We have been doing the same thing for 10 years, we are a big family. It is not only about results and money. The life is quite short, and it is very good to have friends on your team.

 

Visa declines for Ti6

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Visa declines for Ti6

Teams attending The International are facing issues with Visa rejection

This is the third time when Xue ‘September’ Zhi Chuan’s visa is declined for ti6.

September, a support player of LGD Gaming who are invited to ti6 directly fails to get visa the third time for their support star September.

Having invited directly to ti6, LGD announced recently, They will not be able to attend the event with their full roster due to Visa issues. While this announcement was made, September’s visa was already denied 2 times. Since it was unclear regarding the 3rd attempt of Sep’s visa. He recently posted on his Weibo page stating it was rejected.

LGD Gaming’s statement after Second rejection.

” Because of education history issues, September and new manager ReBorN0405’s visas have been denied twice. We are currently contacting Perfect World and Valve and are preparing for a third attempt. ”

visa declines for ti6

LGD’s management states they are contacting Valve and Perfect world for any kind of help they can get.

This situation of Visa getting declined is not only a problem for Chinese countries, but also for Filipino teams who have qualified for wild card i.e Execration and TNC who qualified first form SEA region.

Exectration and TNC also got their visas declined for Seattle, both the teams are now reapplying for the visa.

Execration on Social Media

TNC on Social Media

The Philippines dream to attend TI since there are now two teams who will be competing in the tournament is now in danger. TNC who qualified and Execration playing for the wildcard slot shows the potential of the country from where they belong.

Statement form TNC’s Manager

” This is the dream of every Dota 2 player, not just for our players but for everyone. Especially sa Filipino community. It’s been awhile that Pinoy teams have participated in the International. This time, we have two. This is not a negative thing to look at. This clearly means that eSports is growing big. Now, they are considering the players as real athletes, that’s why they are requiring P1 Visas. We would like to thank Valve and Sen. Bam Aquino for trying to help us in the process to make it to TI6. All of these are okay, it’s all for the growth of eSports. ”

Statement from Execration’s Manager

” It has been an emotional roller coaster ride for us, this is actually turning out to be harder than the qualifiers. It has been the dream of our team to qualify to The International 6 since TI1 and now that it finally happened, we’re facing this visa issues and it’s emotionally exhausting to be honest. We are thankful to Senator Bam and Valve for helping us out throughout this process. Hopefully, somehow some way we get our visas in time for the event. ”

Senators have now started supporting eSport in their country and they will be helping teams like TNC and Execration to attain visa for The international 6.

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McDonalds share rose all-time high 23%, thanks to Nintendo’s Pokemon

Deepak Ojha
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McDonalds share rose all-time high 23%, thanks to Nintendo’s Pokemon

Stock Market is on a roll in Tokyo after Nintendo’s PokemonGO is shuffling the sentiments of the market movers and shakers. Joining the list in the surge market movers is McDonald’s Holdings Co. which boomed to its all-time daily high, market price of share rose by 23%, highest since it was listed more than a decade ago.

The game, which is still not able in Japan surprisingly, has vouched for the Food giant McDonalds by taking the share price on a roll gaining in percentages more than 20% in intra-day trading.

I’m loving it.

“Investors are flocking to Pokemon-related stocks and McDonald’s Japan is one of those benefiting from the boom,” said Mitsushige Akino, a Tokyo-based executive officer at Ichiyoshi Asset Management Co. “The boom came at a time when McDonald’s business has already started recovering and there’s expectation that the Pokemon toy offering will further increase customer traffic to their shops.”

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After a breathtaking rally of the game’s trend everlasting – now more than a week – Nintendo has pushed its market value past Sony Corp. For the Japan unit of McDonald’s Corp., Nintendo has been offering exclusive Pokemon action figures in their outlets. Shares in the Japan unit of McDonald’s Corp. rose 9.9 percent to 3,340 yen as of 11:00 a.m. in Tokyo trading Tuesday. The 23 percent jump earlier was the biggest daily gain since its July 2001 listing. The benchmark Topix index rose 0.2 percent.

Pokemon Go’s launch in Japan has been postponed in light of the fact that the server limit in the nation is not sufficiently capable of staying, with respect to the expected interest, Forbes reported July 15, referring to John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon GO engineer Niantic Inc.

Nintendo has now surpassed Sony, valued at $40bns

Deepak Ojha
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Nintendo has now surpassed Sony, valued at $40bns

Nintendo’s is on a fairly run now after the launch of its overnight success Pokemon: GO which has now surpassed every possible figure available to avail success. The company has now taken over in figures the market capital valuation of its Japanese rival Sony. Nintendo has now doubled its valuation after the Pokemon GO launch and has now been valued over $40billion.

It also has created a new record for the Japanese stock exchange by marking the highest number of shares ever traded daily in Japan. The stock doubled its valuation on Tuesday and surpassed the valuation of technology giant Sony, dealing the valuation of over $39billions.

Considering, the game has not launched in many countries officially, it is quite easy to predict the forthcoming success of the game as the fact that countries like India have not still gotten an official launch, but the rising popularity aims clearly towards the fundamentals of a viral game such as Pokemon GO.

Team Empire drops Scandal

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Team Empire drops Scandal

Team Empire drops Scandal – four active members remains to the team

Team Empire drops Scandal from their dota 2 roster after their poor performance at the Chinese Nanyang dota 2 championships season 2.

Team Empire drops scandal
Roman “Scandal” Sadotenkov

Roman “Scandal” Sadotenkov was a former player of Team Empire back in 2012.

Scandal then moved apart from the team due to some disputes with the managerial staff. During his 3 years of time span before he joined back Team Empire he was part of many other known organisations such as Rox-Kis, Power Rangers and Virtus-pro.Polar.

Team Empire looked promising during their performance by qualifying for the ESL One Manila and Manila Majors.

Team was brought down at the Chinese showdown at the Season 2 of Nanyang dota 2 championships. With poor performance at Nanyang the organisation decided to drop their mid player from the roster.

Statement by Team Empire.

” It is still unknown who is going to replace Roman. After Virtus.Pro have disbanded and Polarity have lost its financial support it is safe to assume that CIS free agents’ market is rather full. We hope that Team Empire will come back stronger with new mid player as well as Roman will find his new team and perform greatly. ”

Due to lot of roster changes in CIS regions and many teams disbanding such as Virtus.Pro and even polarity losing their financial support it is assumed that Scandal will be a free agent till the time he is able to find himself a new home.

This is what Scandal have to say about the Situation on his social media page.

The roster change took place after failing to qualify for the International 6 by acquiring bottom 3rd position in their qualifying bubble group and failing to grab a good spot at the season 2 of Nanyang Dota 2 championships. Team Empire is now a part of the post TI6 Shuffle before TI6.

Team Empire’s Current Roster.

Russia Roman ‘RAMZES666’ Kushnarev
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Russia Vasily ‘Afterlife’ Shishkin
Russia Yaroslav ‘Miposhka’ Naidenov
Russia Rinat ‘KingR’ Abdullin

Majors Restructured?

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Majors Restructured?

majors cancelled

Majors

As we all know after The International 5 Valve came up with Majors happening before the start of TI6. It is speculated that the format of Majors will be restructured.

Majors are basically 3 tournaments before The International which takes place every year affiliated with Valve.

The prize money is contributed by Valve and allows the community to enjoy Dota for the whole year.

Ehome’s Manager, Galahad, recently tweeted on weibo that he heard about Valve to cancel the Major’s post Ti6 and come up with a new tournament structure.

This information is not yet confirmed by anyone from Valve or any known personality.

Ehome’s Manager said :

” heard that there won’t be seasonal Majors next year. But Valve will pick some big tournament organisers like ESL and PGL to do CS:GO-like big tournaments. Valve will still provide the prize money. But the essence is that they will outsource the Majors and Valve will not provide the money of organising. Dota2 will have a Hall of Fame, which will select players that shone in the past. But the entrees must have retired for a year.”

With this, rooms for third party Organizers like Starladder & ESL are now open.

It is also speculated that Valve may go with third party organizers for the tournaments who proved to be the best for the community.

The above mentioned things are not yet confirmed and still are rumored.

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