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Mr.Cat Invitational Announced

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Mr.Cat Invitational Announced

Mr.Cat Invitational Announced – Beyond Infinity invited

Mr.Cat Invitational 4

Mr.Cat Invitational announced for SEA region with teams participating from Countries like India, Philippines, Malaysia  and Mongolia.

As for the Indian fans. Beyond Infinity Asus is invited to the tournament.

South East Asian pro teams will compete for 19 days (11th July – 29th June) for a prize pool of $10,000.

Prize pool of $10,000 will be distributed to the top 4 teams:

1st – $5,000

2nd – $3000

3rd – $1500

4th – $500

MCI will have total of 10 teams invited to play in the tournament.

Philippines Rave
Philippines s1 Lykos
Thailand Signature.TrusT
Malaysia WarriorGaming.Unity
India Beyond Infinity
Philippines Execration
Philippines Mineski
Mongolia The Mongolz
Malaysia Orange Taring
Malaysia Power Gaming

Groups

Source: mrcatinvitational.com
Source: mrcatinvitational.com

Teams are divided into two groups of 5 teams each. Top 4 teams from each groups will qualify for the Playoff’s.

All the Matches played in group stages will be BO 2.

PlayOff

Below is the format for playoff’s (Double elimination bracket)

Source: mrcatinvitational.com
Source: mrcatinvitational.com

All the matches in playoff’s will be BO 3 and grand finals will be BO 5.

Schedule

You can find the schedule for all the matches here.

Source: mrcatinvitational.com
Source: mrcatinvitational.com

This event will be officially covered by Moonducktv and broadcast-ed on TWITCH.

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VP and Liquid off to a good start on the Day1 of ESL Cologne

Kanishka Thakur
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VP and Liquid off to a good start on the Day1 of ESL Cologne

The fifth match of the Day 1 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between Liquid and Envyus. The map that was decided was Train.

Envyus started on the CT side and with the the help of ‘Happy’ managed to win the first pistol round. Envyus were holding strong on the map and at some point of time they were dominating Liquid but despite of that Liquid didn’t give up and with the help of ‘EliGe’ and ‘Hiko’ they came back

Image Courtesy :- hltv.org
Image Courtesy :- hltv.org

in the game and leaded the first half with a scoreline of 9-6. With the T Side execution in the first pistol round Liquid won the round by ‘Hiko’ picking up some important kills. Liquid then began to lead the match 13-7 and then ‘jdm64’ ended Envyus’s hopes and closed the map with a scoreline of 16-7.

The next match of the Day 1 was between Virtus pro and mouseports. The map that was decieded was also Train.

In the first round Mousesports started off on the T Side off the map and won the pistol round with a triple kill by ‘nik0’. Mousesports were leading the map 7-0 and had a full control over the map. However ‘TaZ’ helped his team to comeback in the game with a 1v1 clutch, which helped VP to get back in the game and closing the first half with a scoreline of 7-8 in the favor of mouz. In the second pistol round of the game ‘Pashabiceps’ picked up a triple kill and tied the game at 8-8. Then there was no stopping for the Polish team as they made it 14-10 and then closed out the map 16-10.

All the matches on Day 1 were pretty exciting and the viewers saw some great comebacks in the game. It will be very interesting to see which team will come out on the top on the Day 2 of the ESL One 2016. We will keep you updated for the rest of the matches, stay tuned.

Manchester City eSports?

Deepak Ojha
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Manchester City eSports?

Manchester City is another among the FC Schalke and Manchester United football club, who have decided to invest in esports. Popular “the Citizens’ informed officially about Kieran ‘Keza’ Brown, who usually appears in FIFA tournaments.

After Bayern Munich, and Valencia CF, Manchester City has extended their vision in the eSports industry by hiring a popular FIFA player Keza. There is no much information available at the moment other than the pick-up.

More information to follow.

Astralis Leads, CLG upsets at the start of ESL Cologne

Kanishka Thakur
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Astralis Leads, CLG upsets at the start of ESL Cologne

The ESL One Cologne started with the first match between Astralis and Dignitas. It was a Best of 1 and the map decided was Overpass.

Astralis took a quick lead in the starting of the game as ‘device’ clutched an amazing 1v2 round securing them a first round win. This followed by Astralis taking a comfortable lead by 5-0 and taking control over the map. On the other hand Dignitas were really struggling with their CT-site hold. Inspiste of giving away few rounds dignitas came back in the game and picked up some important rounds in the first half and closed the half with the scoreline of 8-7 in the favor of Astralis. In the second pistol round Dignitas pulled off an amazing A site execute to secure the round, that followed by two anti-Eco rounds to secure a 10-8 lead. Although Dignitas didn’t stay behind for long and cameback with ‘Karrigan’ clutching a very important round and then closing the map with a scoreline of 16-12.

Image courtesy :- hltv.org
Image courtesy :- hltv.org

The second match of the ESL One Cologne was between Gambit and Counter Logic Gaming. The map that was decided was Dust2.

Gambit started pretty well by winning the first pistol round and then taking a lead of 7-1 in the map. But with the help of ‘spaze’, the North Americans came back in the game and closed the first half with a scoreline of 8-7 in the favor of Gambit. The second half pistol round started with ‘koosta’ getting a double kill to secure the round. Gambit forced in the second round and with the help of ‘Adren’ the team managed to win the force buy. Gambit later on picked some important rounds and closed the map with a scoreline of 16-13.

Easy win for Na’Vi and NiP at the first day of the Majors

Kanishka Thakur
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Easy win for Na’Vi and NiP at the first day of the Majors

The third match of the Day 1 of the ESL Cologne was between Natus Vincere and Flipside Tactics. The map that was decided to be played was Train. The first round of the map started with Flipside winning the pistol round with the help of ‘Blade’ and surprising everyone.

Image Courtesy :- hltv.org
Image Courtesy :- hltv.org

However Na’Vi didn’t stay back for too long and pulled right back after on a force buy and added four more rounds to take them to a significant lead. Despite of ‘Worldedit’ winning an important clutch round, Na’Vi closed the first half with a scoreline of 13-2. Flipside then comeback in the game by winning opening five rounds on the CT-side but then ‘GuardiaN’ helped Na’Vi to close the map 16-7.

The fourth match of the ESL Cologne was between Ninjas in Pyjamas and OpTic Gaming. The map that was decided was Dust2.

The first pistol round saw some amazing picks by ‘pyth’ securing NiP the first pistol round. NiP took control over the map and were leading 8-0 comfortably. Later OpTic Gaming managed to win three rounds to close the half with a scoreline of 11-4 in the favor of NiP. In the second pistol round ‘Get_right’ saved the round with an amazing 3k. Later on NiP closed the map with a scoreline of 16-4.

FaZe upset fnatic at Group D first game

Deepak Ojha
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FaZe upset fnatic at Group D first game

With uncertain turn out of events, FaZe beat Fnatic at ESL One Cologne 2016 group stages in the opening match sending the Swedish side to the lower brackets. FaZe just managed to take over dust2 with a nomimal margin of a couple rounds closing the game at 16-14.

Even though with strong start, Fnatic wasn’t able to grab the grip of the game versus FaZe in the opening rounds, after being down in the first half 8-7 fnatic weren’t able to dominate the scoreline in the next phase of the game and fell short of 4 match points only to lose the map 14-16 against FaZe which showed their best performance since their inception. Aizy, who contributed the most in the impact rounds completely outplayed fnatic multiple times during their attempt to get the control of the map back when it was gone.

Fnatic KRIMZ

It looked very promising at the time when fnatic played their regular ‘timeout’ card and were able to win a couple of rounds followed by a couple of more to tie the scoreline at 13-14 but it was Aizy who took them down completely with his massive 3 kills putting a halt once again to the hopes of the Swedish side.

Interestingly, fnatic did manage to get some impossible rounds as they moved ahead with the ratings to make it 14-15 with flusha’s multi kills and JW’s 1v2 CZ clutch. The aggression in the last round was so evident as fnatic were hungry and desperate to move to overtime, but it seemed that FaZe did their homework properly and were able to read the situation. All thanks to kioSHima’s headshot on to olofmeister which got them to the B site wide-open leaving fnatic dispersed in the map and hopeless as JW took the responsibility and wasn’t able to win the last round 1v3-clutch. Fnatic now moves to the lower brackets and will face G2 tomorrow. Interestingly, one from G2 and fnatic will be surely getting eliminated and that’d be a huge upset when people expect both the teams to be at the playoffs.

SK wins their first map against heavyweights G2

Deepak Ojha
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SK wins their first map against heavyweights G2

It was a treat to watch two of the top teams in the world compete at the majors in the early stages of the game. G2, which is already sailing the ship on the edge of the world, who beat SK Gaming last week got defeated to them in the first match with a tough scoreline of 16-11 after being neck-to-neck for the most of the map.

The match begin with G2 starting off in the terrorist side where ‘fer’ denied the push by taking two headshots in the very first round which led to SK winning the first map followed by the anti-ecos in which ‘fer’ got couple of kills in the second and the third round making it 3-0 in favor of SK. RPK’s two kills helped G2 winning the fourth round as they came back in the rifles making it 3-1 and 303 further after SK were forced to pistols. However, in the seventh round, fnx shattered the dreams of the french when both the sides were rifles with his two kills making the score 4-3 favoring the SK, and the following rounds to make it a 5-3 which forced G2 to tec9-armors. Shox and co. were able to bring it back from the tec9-eco round followed by the next round where Rpk went huge by getting 3 kills and the scores tied yet again to a 5-5.

SK. FalleN

After a couple of easy rounds in the bank of G2, Scream pulled of an amazing 1v2 post-plant clutch at the B bombsite, smartly tricking the SK side by spraying them down from an unexpected angle making the scores 8-5. The Brazilian captain quickly responded back with 2 scout kills, stealing a couple of back and forth rounds, ending the half 8-7 favoring the french side.

Although after a couple of delayed losses favoring the SK side, SmithZ stepped up to get 7 massive kills in 2 consecutive rounds followed by a clutch by Rpk to make it 11-10 favoring them. The couple of following rounds were sort of mishap where Brazilians completely outplayed the Frenchmen taking the scoreline ahead to 14-11 and closing the first match 16-11. The first match of the Group of death surely got us amazing content and experience of the major. Unfortunately, only two of the four from Group D will make their way to the playoffs, and the three of them are the favorites of the majors already!

Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova

Deepak Ojha
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Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova

Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova CS:GO championship held in Banglore on 3rd of July, 2016, making it their longest win-streak back-to-back in the majors. They were awarded with ₹2,00,000 in the bank and a respect to carry forward in the next event.

The finals were a bit not like the finals as Team Brutality comfortably were able to clinch the championship title by defeating top Indian CS:GO teams and making themselves once again the Number 1 CS:GO team in India without a doubt. The debatable topic whether they are good only during online events is no longer logical as this is their power-pack victory even though when teams like Overcome and Wolf were fellow participants.

Novaplay

There is nothing much to talk technically about their game as the victory came in with two back to back wins leaving the last map untouched as they won 16-5 on cache, followed by 16-3 on dust2 in the grand finals versus Team Kungfu Pandits.

Team Brutality attend the event with their regular lineup, V3n0m, RiX, Fox, Kundya and astarrrr; whereas, The Kunfu Pandits were, Ribbi, AKS, Petrichor, Marzil and Moon.

The event, however, turned out to be unexpectedly great after the controversial decisions by the organizers led the unwanted vibes of negativity crawling around the fest with lots of different opinions edging their impact on the outcome of the event. We were at the event to witness some amazing Counter Strike as the organizers left no stones unturned in making this one of the biggest and successful LAN event this year.


The production, scheduling, technical and all the other aspects of the event were exceptional. The likes of Bleh and Aequitas at the analysis-cum-casting desk also added cheese to the dish as they were flawless in their non-stop 9 hours run. Novaplay’s Supernova was overall a sweet deal for the Counter Strike community with added perks at the LOFT38 pub which also had Comedy Industry’s veteran Abish Mathew as the stand-up comedian for the night.

Other than Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Novaplay had a Cosplay event as well which turned out to be great with Vijay Sinha assisting the viewers on from the stage and participating turning out to be in huge numbers. Supernova, as the website says, plans to continue their run for 4 different cities other than Bengaluru which is obviously a great news for the community.

Team Overcome beat Wolf-Invisible wings at ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals

Deepak Ojha
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Team Overcome beat Wolf-Invisible wings at ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals

The ESL Starter Cup #2 finals played between Team Overcome and Team Wolf (now Invisible Wings) had an unfortunate turn out of events when Team Wolf’s boot-camp was hit by internet failure which led them to forfeit the second map (11-11 in cobblestone at the time of disconnect) after losing the first one 7-16 on mirage. Team Overcome became the ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO champions.

We were expecting a breathtaking battle between two of the India’s top 5 teams with similar skill levels competing against in the ESL India Premiership Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals, which turned out to be rather one-sided upset in the first map only to finish the best-of-three battle with forfeit in the second map after Team Wolf faced connectivity trouble. As a matter of fact Team Overcome clinched the victory 2-0 in a best of three grand finals affair to be called ESL Starter Cup # CS:GO champions, they will be qualified for the LAN finals alongside Team Wolf which will be held in Hyderabad very soon.

As a matter of fact Team Overcome clinched the victory 2-0 in a best of three grand finals affair to be called ESL Starter Cup # CS:GO champions, they will be qualified for the LAN finals alongside Team Wolf which will be held in Hyderabad very soon.

Team Overcome

Team Overcome

Putting some light on Team Overcome, who are not yet well renowned in the industry. The team was formed a couple of months ago and have had a good run all throughout their journey. Not winning any major events but were definitely in the top four in almost all the national tournaments held.

Their major wins were marked in Mangima 2016 Pune which held earlier this year, Team Overcome stood 3rd at Mangima, 4th at Lenovo India Gaming Week and Videogame Fest, Bangalore, they were also the runners-up at TPLinks ClanWars Season 4. Their latest two achievements were recorded today when they stood 4th at Novaplay’s Supernova being eliminated by Team Brutality (16-13) who later on went ahead winning the event.

PalmDesert becomes the first steam user to reach level 1000

Kanishka Thakur
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PalmDesert becomes the first steam user to reach level 1000

Renowned power player PalmDesert has become the first Steam user to reach the steam level over 1000. He was the first one to reach that level and Valve hadn’t even created a proper icon for level 1000 at the time.

PalmDesert

He owns 5,029 games and 3,372 pieces of DLC. He also has a total of 58,666 items in his steam inventory that keeps on increasing. Steam’s entire library is made up of 7,481 games and add-ons.

His most played game is Left 4 Dead 2, he spent 943 hours playing it. You can watch his steam profile here.

 

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