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Na’Vi beats Virtus Pro 2-0 to reach finals of CPLS 2: pasha blames self

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Natus Vincere confirms their place in the grand face-off of the Counter Pit League Season 2 Finals after defeating Virtus.pro 2-0 (16-14 on de_overpass and 16-12 on de_train).

Beginning off on the Terrorist side of Overpass, Natus Vincere got the gun round and the accompanying hostile to ecos to take a 3-0 lead. In the wake of purchasing up, Virtus.pro grabbed two rounds in succession, however Na`Vi hit back directly after to set the score at 4-2. The Polish group realized that in the event that they lost the accompanying round their economy would be seriously harmed, and Filip “NEO” Kubski ran immense with the AWP and won a 1vs3 grasp with three quick executes inside A.

Virtus.pro went to take the following five rounds, conveying the scoreline to 8-4, when their streak reached an end after Ioann “Edward” Sukhariev racked up two essential executes with a flank endeavor. Still, the CIS-based group were not able profit by that round win, with Virtus.pro taking a persuading 10-5 half-time lead.

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The Polish group developed their lead by winning the gun round and the principal hostile to eco round, yet they were found napping by Na`Vi’s eco push in the third round, with Egor “flamie” Vasilyev grabbing three headshots. What took after was a profoundly challenged time of the diversion in which adjusts backpedaled and forward until Virtus.pro made it 14-7. That is the means by which far Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas’ men would go, in any case, as Na`Vi racked up nine rounds in succession to seal a 16-14 triumph and get the lead in the arrangement.

Train started with Na`Vi once increase looking the brighter of the two sides as they raged to a 3-0 lead, yet the force of the amusement changed in weapon rounds. With every single close round going their direction, Virtus.pro had a devastating control of the economy, which permitted them to head into the separation 9-6.

In the second half, Na`Vi got off to a flying begin and won the initial seven rounds to take a 13-9 lead. Virtus.pro still attempted to react, however all they finished was three rounds as their adversaries struggled to a hard-battled yet merited 16-12 win.

Pasha being the worst performer, only managed to get 28 kills against his 51 deaths, which resulted in Virtus. Pro losing with a very less marginal difference in both the matches, but convincingly a 2-0.

Pasha, however, shared his worst of the experience on his official Facebook account, where is he most active than the rest of the Counter Strike players from the professional scene. He also pointed that this performance of his can even get him out of the team, which was undoubtedly not accepted by his fans in comments.

Redbull eSports player of the month – Olofmeister leads the charge

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Redbull eSports player of the month title is kicked off! “Consistently, we’ll solicit our board from casters and eSports specialists to assign a player from every major eSport, and afterward you simply need to vote in favor of your most loved in the survey. We’ll declare the champ one week from now”, says the message on board at Redbull eSports.

In February and early March (the Dota Shanghai Major straddled both months so we included it), there have been some extraordinary exhibitions by stars and newcomers from Call of Duty’s MarkyB to Dota 2’s pieliedie and Street Fighter’s new star Mister Crimson. You can vote in our survey beneath, yet in the event that you don’t know who to vote in favor of, ensure you investigate each of the designations from our specialists.

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The list of nominated personalities are:

Call of Duty – Mark ‘MarkyB’ Bryceland
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Olofmeister
Heroes of the Storm – Sake
Hearthstone – ThijsNL
Dota 2 – pieliedie
FIFA 16 – Spencer ‘Epsilon Gorilla’ Ealing
Halo – Mathew ‘Royal2’ Fiorante
Street Fighter – Mister Crimson
League of Legends – Song ‘Smeb’ Kyung-ho

After Esports player of the year, Olofmeister is currently leading the charge with most number of votes along with a unprecedented margin. Make sure your vote goes to our CSGO fame, superstar of Fnatic, Olofmeister! Vote here:

 

E-Frag’s Razer Rising Stars is kicking off in Europe

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After announcing that Efrag is going to be doing another World Championship this year, we are pleased to announce that they are also going to be doing a series of leagues which they will hold around the world with a total prize-pool of $64,600.

As the name “Rising Stars” suggests, the leagues that we will be holding will be seasonal leagues that are aimed to support the grassroots of the Counter­Strike: Global Offensive scene. The main goal of this league is to support teams that don’t get a lot of recognition and also non­tier 1 teams with them wanting to one day, reach that goal which with this league, we can help with.

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As well as us planning to help these teams get exposure, in the future we also hope to have these teams as shareholders and partners of the events with us sharing the profits and success of it with not only ourselves but also the teams involved.

During the Razer Rising Stars, there will be four leagues in four regions (Europe, North America, South America and Southeast Asia). In total, $64,600 will be given out in these four leagues, whilst 12 online qualifiers will determine which teams will qualify for these leagues. Although originally the prizepool was $50,000, this has now risen to $64,600 as all teams who complete all of their matches will receive $500.

All of the Razer Rising Stars League matches will be streamed in several languages on the platform, Azubu. These languages will be; English, French, German, Russian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish and Spanish.

List of all different streams:

● English: ​www.azubu.tv/efragtv

● French: ​www.azubu.tv/efragfr

● Polish:​www.azubu.tv/efragpl

● Serbian:​www.azubu.tv/efragrs

● Finnish:​www.azubu.tv/efragfi

● German:​www.azubu.tv/efragger

● Russian:​www.azubu.tv/efragru

● Spanish: ​www.azubu.tv/efrages

Razer Rising Stars Europe League:

The Razer Rising Stars Europe League will run from 15th March 2016 until 1st May 2016 and will have a prize pool of $20,000. It will feature 16 teams, 8 of which will be invited while 8 will join from 4 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 16 teams participate in a round­robin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 15 BO2 matches, the prizes will be paid out dependent on each teams placement. (shown below)

● 1st: ​$10,000 USD

● 2nd: ​$5,000 USD

● 3rd: ​$3,000 USD

● 4th: ​$2,000 USD

● 5th­-16th: ​$500 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

For the Razer Rising Stars European League there were four qualifiers in which 734 teams registered and over 3,600 players played in best of one matches. These teams were split into the four qualifiers with Space Soldiers and Orbit (Ex­Epiphany Bolt as they were known at the time) qualifying from the first qualifiers, Bpro Gaming and miMo qualifying from the second qualifiers, PENTA Sports and Team Refuse qualifying from the third qualifiers and Recursive and eSuba securing the final spots after qualifying from the fourth and final qualifiers.

Some of the teams that didn’t make it through but were close to qualifying were; Arcade, Epsilon, GameAgents, RCTIC, gBots, K1ck.es and Revival who all played really well in their matches but not enough to qualify.

The full list of teams (Invited and qualified) participating in the European League are:

E­Frag.net Esports Club, Space Soldiers, LoungeGaming, Team Orbit (ex­Epiphany Bolt), Orgless Bpro, CPH Wolves, miMo, ALTERNATE aTTaX, PENTA Sports, LDLC White, Refuse.pl, DenDD, eSuba, Ancient, Recursive.

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2231/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2232/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25232

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Razer Rising Stars South America League:

The Razer Rising Stars South American League Qualifiers are currently in progress with participating teams and players still going up due to them still being open for more teams to enter.

The League for South America will have a prizepool of $10,000. It will feature 8 teams, 4 of which will be invited and the other 4 being qualified teams from the online qualifiers. qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 8 teams participate in a round­robin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 7 BO2 matches.

Invited; Qualified;

NTN, KeyD Stars, Santos.Dexterity, g3nerationX, TBD

The league’s following prize distribution:

● 1st: ​$5,000 USD

● 2nd: ​$3,000 USD

● 3rd: ​$2,000 USD

● 4th­10th: ​$200 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2235/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2236/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25232

Razer Rising Stars North American and South­East Asia League:

All of the qualifiers for both of these Leagues are due to begin soon. The schedule for all of the leagues will be announced soon.

Abacus Peripherals sponsored two gaming events for the prestigious IIT’s

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Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. in association with Antec, Nvidia Inno3D and Zion RAM sponsored Gaming Events of two IT festivals of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kanpur organized their tech festival TECHKRITI from 3rd to 6th March, which saw a massive crowd of around 4000 be a part of the event. IIT BHU, located in the heart of Banaras organized Technex’16 from 4th to 6th March. This 3 day event pulled a crowd of more than 5000.

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The IT festival had numerous e-games such as FIFA’16, CG:GO and NFS-Most Wanted, also events such as Robo Wars and Drone Fight didn’t lose a chance to attract eyes of the crowd. Apart from technical events there was spectacular display of band performance by Farhan Akhtar and Mohit Chauhan and astonishing speeches by personalities like Hamid Karzai (Hon’ble former President of Afganistan), Amit Sethi (CIO of Axis Bank), Jorge Cham (Creator PHD comics) and many other great personalities as part of their Tech Talks. Their speeches were a source of inspiration for many youth. The annual tech festival at IIT provided India’s brightest minds a platform to showcase their talent, knowledge and skill all under one roof.

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Vipul Modi, VP- Marketing & Sales at Abacus peripherals Pvt. Ltd, “We have been regularly associated with IIT BHU, and we are glad to associate with IIT, Kanpur this year. We are extremely pleased and excited to be part of such worthwhile events, not only they are worthwhile, but also they showcase a level of enthusiasm that’s hard to find anywhere else.”

Sponsoring these events serves the major purpose of Abacus Peripherals to motivate the young and budding gamers of India to take their talent, skill and love for E-sports to a whole new level.

About Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. :-
Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. is the national distributor of computer components and peripherals distributing brands like Zion RAM, Biostar Motherboards, Genius PC peripherals, Antec PC components (gaming cabinets & power supplies), Nvidia Inno3D graphic Cards etc. successfully across India for over 18 years.

Azubu gets exclusive ESL content official rights

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Spilling stage Azubu will be the main spot to watch certain ESL eSports scope taking after the understanding of a two-year bargain between the pair.

The arrangement doesn’t gift selective gushing access to ESL occasions, for example, ESL One, IEM and the ESL Pro League (despite the fact that Azubu will stream these), however provides Azubu with elite substance and showcasing joint efforts, for example, permitting, dispersion and deals representation.

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The deal commences instantly.

“As eSports keep on developing exponentially everywhere throughout the world, drawing bigger crowds who need to inundate themselves in the diversions, encounters and way of life, it turns out to be progressively imperative for us to band together with the best stages to give access to our occasions and also more esteem to brands who need to contact those groups of onlookers,” ESL’s SVP of offers and business improvement Nik Adams said.

“Azubu’s achieve, client experience and energetic devotion to the eSports way of life are second to none.”

Azubu’s VP of business advancement Abe Gottesman included: “Azubu’s association with ESL will offer both organizations some assistance with growing and extend their achieve, which will eventually better serve the violently developing eSports gatherings of people.

“This joint effort is more than a substance and deals representation relationship. Azubu and ESL are deliberately adjusted on giving brands a more important and inventive approach to interface with the enormous eSports demographic on a worldwide level and to convey Azubu’s eSports group the best eSports programming discovered anyplace on the planet.”

In December Azubu got a $59m money infusion for obligation financing, the potential ramifications of which rely on upon your translation. Obligation financing offers advantages over vanilla speculation, and has been utilized by large portions of tech’s enormous players. Nonetheless, it’s a less secure system that can reverse discharge down the line if the cards don’t fall effectively.

Unquestionably however, content rights seem, by all accounts, to be the instrument with which Azubu plans to tackle the joined may of Twitch and YouTube

Nvidia’s latest driver issue can corrupt your Operating System

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On the off chance that you have a Nvidia design cards it’s prescribed that you abstain from introducing the most recent 364.47 and 364.51 drivers until further notice. As reports have been pouring through Nvidia’s official GeForce forums, redditors and various websites of the 364.47 GeForce drivers bringing about an extensive variety of significant issues and the in this manner discharged 364.51 drivers having not successfully determined them starting yet.

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The driver release version 364.47 is creating chaos with the rigs of gamers as the driver seems to be broken, Nvidia has officially confirmed about.

The driver version released for stabilizing the compatibility of GeForce cards with Tom Clancy’s: The Division Game was reportedly broken and not ready for usage. Following the update, users are facing numerous types of issues with their computers. Some have alleged that their Operating System got corrupted whereas, few complain of a hardware failure.

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How to resolve?

What we suggest is, rolling back to the previous stable driver version. You may boot your computer in ‘Safe Mode’ and thereafter uninstalling the latest driver version installed.

UPDATE: Nvidia updates that it has rolled out another update version 364.51 to fix the errors and compatibility. The driver has been submitted to MicrosoftWHQL to get their driver version certified, the update would go live as soon as Microsoft passes it forward.

MLG Columbus Group A, B teams has been revealed

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The first two groups for the upcoming major have been announced, featuring teams like NiP, Fnatic, Luminosity and FaZe.

MLG have announced the groups A and B in two short videos on their Instagram today. The videos can be found in this post as well.

The groups have been drawn based on seeds from the previous major, DreamHack: Cluj-Napoca, as well as results from the Lan qualifiers for the major, where the 1st pool features the top 4 and pool 2 is the 5th-8th place finishers from Cluj. Pools 3 and 4 are determined by the qualifiers, the group winners from the LAN qualifiers are pool 3 leaving the 2nd place finishers in the groups in pool 4.

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MLG Columbus Groups

Group A
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas
Brazil Luminosity
Germany mousesports
Ukraine FlipSid3

Group B
Europe FaZe Clan
Sweden fnatic
United States Splyce
United States Team Liquid

The final two groups are to be drawn and announced tomorrow and revealed on the MLG instagram account.

Remaining teams:

Pool 1
France EnvyUs
Ukraine Natus Vincere

Pool 2 
Poland Virtus.Pro
Denmark Astralis

Pool 3
France G2.Esports
Russia Gambit

Pool 4
United States Counter Logic Gaming
United States Cloud 9

TSN Esports: Canada’s leading sports media group enters into the market

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The biggest sports network in Canada is jumping on the esports bandwagon. The Sports Network, aka TSN, is starting a section covering pro gaming.

TSN is the latest of many sports media companies to invest into esports coverage. ESPN, Yahoo, and Sky have all recently thrown their hats into the ring, so it’s no surprise that TSN, often called the ESPN of Canada (with good reason—ESPN owns 20 percent of the company) is also diving in.

The self-titled “Canada’s Sports Leader” will offer both text and video coverage of esports games, specifically mentioning League of Legends, Dota 2, Call of Duty, and Counter-Strike, but also including many other titles, based off their launch content. The TSN esports page already has coverage from this weekend’s intense slate of esports events, including IEM Katowice, highlights from the Dota 2Shanghai Major, and more.


Welcome to TSN esports!

Competitive gaming is an undeniable phenomenon and Canada’s Sports Leader is diving head first into the fray with wall-to-wall coverage of the biggest titles, teams, personalities and events.

From League of Legends and Dota 2 to Call of Duty and Counter-Strike, we’re bringing you all the latest news and results, original features and even a few thoughts of our own along the way.

Esports has exploded into the mainstream over the past few years and the snowball is only getting bigger. In a 2016 report by market research firm Newzoo, gaming audiences reached more than 130 million frequent viewers last year with an additional 125 million occasional viewers.

The report also highlights the record growth of the market with revenues expected to grow by more than $100 million in 2016 and eventually reach the $1 billion plateau by 2019.

It’s clear that fans can’t get enough of esports and we’re ready to answer the call.

With streaming services like Twitch and live events being held all over the world, competitive gaming has never been more alive. TSN esports intends to satisfy the cravings of our audience as the most reliable outlet for premier gaming content.

Team Secret robbed of their gears after winning Shangai Majors

With the much ‘no one saw this coming’ experience faced by the attendees at Shangai Majors this year, Team Secret the winners of Shangai Majors held in China were reportedly robbed of their laptops and other valuables soon after the majors ended as posted by them on Instagram.

The Shangai Majors which saw a breathtaking run for a week or so was smoothly covered around and the execution led the community persuasive to appreciate the efforts Valve and the organizing team put in to make this one of the biggest and successful majors for DotA II this year. Shangai Majors was previously even roped up in the controversy after Valve’s chairperson Gabe Newell instantly fired the production house responsible for the broadcast.

The victims however are not Team Secret solely, a tweet following by the official handle @TeamSecret revealed that almost every participating team had their stuffs stolen, lost or packed away somewhere not belonging to their residence and the staffs reconcile it as ‘clean up’ of the practice area.

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Formerly a tweet by Swindle’s official handle also warned that the gears might as well get stolen because of lack of security and locking at the practice area, which was most probably of all went unnoticed.

“This is what all the teams have woken up to this morning. These are the practice rooms. What remains is hopefully all our gear, we had laptops in this room and a ton of other personal stuff. No heads up about this was given to the teams.” – TeamSecret on Instagram.

Fnatic bags yet another CSGO major title, olofmeister leads the charge once again

Fnatic took another international Counter-Strike title in Katowice today, proving once again that they are one of the most elite sides ever to play the game.

The Swedish side’s seventh $100,000 win came in emphatic fashion—with a 3-0 win against Luminosity Gaming.

Though the scoreline was one-sided, the surging Brazilian side gave the decorated team a run for their money with two games going into over time.

In game one Fnatic had to fight back from 11-1 down on Overpass to win 19-17 in overtime, before taking the second game 16-3. The final game of the series was another close affair where Fnatic had to come from behind, this time overcoming a 7-1 deficit. With the game split evenly at 15-15 Fnatic took four straight overtime rounds to secure the championship.

Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer proved once again to be the difference maker for his team throughout the tournament, ending the event on an even 300 kills.

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With their win in the final, Fnatic also avenged their best-of-one loss against Luminosity in the group stage—their only loss in the tournament.

Astralis had momentum on their side in the group stages, being the only team to finish with a perfect five wins. But after Fnatic defeated Virtus.pro in the quarter finals, Astralis were the next side to fall.

Tempo Storm placed in the top six, with this being their first major event. EnVyUswill have a lot of work to do ahead of the MLG Major in Columbus in just over three weeks—they finished bottom of their group.