Dota 2 fans across the world had a tough time controlling their excitement after Danil “Dendi” Ishutin announced news of forming a new team B8 in early 2020 after his legendary run at Na’Vi concluded in 2018. Dendi is, without a hint of doubt, one of the most loved figures in the professional Dota 2 world, and perhaps of the entire esports world.
Dendi has written an entire chapter of the Dota 2 pro scene with his fountain hooks from The International 2013. However, this time the 2011 TI winner was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
According to a chart released by datdota, Dendi’s team B8 was on a losing streak of 24 games – the longest in professional Dota 2 history – after losing 2-0 to team Unique on May 5th. The new record was made overtaking the previous record set by team FTD Club C in 2016.
B8 had lost all 12 games in the WePlay! Pushka League which is currently underway and was one of the first teams to be eliminated from the tournament. The last victory of team B8 came against Winstrike in the first game of a BO3 in EPIC Prime League.
Dendi currently plays both as a core player and a captain for his team which can certainly be overwhelming. To this day, most professional teams select a support player as the captain and the shot-caller so the cores can focus on their farming patterns and map awareness.
While Dendi may be in a weird situation right now as a professional Dota 2 player, he truly doesn’t need any further titles to prove what he’s capable of. The name Dendi will always be remembered in Dota 2 history and fans will continue to love him the same as before.
Every so often you can see a player resorting to Reddit or Twitter to rant about how ‘broken’ the CSGO matchmaking is and how the game is filled with cheaters. While it’s true that CSGO has an underlying cheater problem, Valve has found a pretty decent way to ensure that there exists a fine line between the queues of cheaters and clean players.
The trust factor system for CSGO was implemented in late 2017 with an intent to take the best parts of the existing prime matchmaking and combine it with a new system to provide a better experience for its players. Users with a certain trust factor score would be matched with players with similar trust factors, improving matchmaking experience the higher you go up the ladder.
Having a low trust factor means that you’re far more likely to be matched with cheaters or toxic teammates. The only way to get out of that hell is to improve your trust factor yourself, and we’re gonna show you how to.
The official blog post for the trust factor introduction in CSGO states that to improve trust factor, “All you need to do is be a positive member of the CS:GO and Steam community.” While no specific steps are mentioned on ways to improve the trust factor, the implications are obvious.
Here are five tips to help you improve your trust factor in CSGO by a significant margin:
Commends
Commends are a great way to prove your positivity in the community. People generally commend each other for being nice, friendly or being a good leader. That’s all you have to do, be a good teammate during games and don’t encourage toxicity. Maybe ask for a commend or two at the end of the game. Each commend can potentially go a long way into improving your trust factor.
Reports
Valve has clearly mentioned that the trust factor system takes reports received into account when calculating the trust factor. Stop doing anything that might get you reported – stop ruining games, stop throwing and stop abusing your teammates. The more you’re abusing your teammates for not hitting a 1-deag, the further you’re gonna fall down the pit of trust factor hell if they decide to report you.
As a rule of thumb, improve the matchmaking experience of others and you’ll get the same in return.
Take a Break
While it may seem strange initially, you might want to stop playing CSGO for a while and focus on other games. Your trust factor also takes into account the other steam games you play. So if you get tired of CSGO, just hop onto some games of Dota 2 or Pubg. It can also act as a potential stress-relief from the intense grinding of CSGO.
Invest Money
This is something I’ve personally come across but wasn’t mentioned in the blog post. There was a time when I had trust factor in the reds. The battle pass for Dota 2 had just come out so I invested about 100$ in it and went non-stop grinding in Dota for three months. Surprisingly enough, when I got back to CSGO there weren’t any complaints from my party members about my low trust factor. When I asked some friends to check, I realised my trust factor was back to green. This is only rational, because investing some money into your steam account hints toward the fact that you’re less likely to risk a VAC ban by cheating in CSGO, consequently increasing your trust factor.
Some Other Factors
There are also some other key factors that might lay an impact on your trust factor score in CSGO.If your account has a VAC ban on a game other than CSGO, your trust factor will inevitably be low. Another thing to keep in mind is that while queuing with a party, you’ll automatically be matched with and against players with trust factors similar to the person with the lowest trust factor. Lastly, if the steam account you’re using to play CSGO is not your own but you’ve acquired it from someone else, your matchmaking experience will see a negative impact.
Reportedly, players are having a tough time trying to join matchmaking servers after the latest update in CSGO . The update made a change to how servers read player’s individual game files and if there’s any discrepancy, players will be kicked. Even though specifics weren’t detailed, it seems like the scope of this function has increased after this patch.
Valve added in the update notes that, “sv_pure servers will now kick clients that have loaded asset files into game memory from files not present on [the] game server filesystem.”
This is the reason why players are being kicked out of lobbies and is also responsible for leading to “pure server” error messages. Queuing up for competitive matchmaking and getting kicked will hand you a competitive cooldown and a loss. However, there is a solution to resolve this problem.
As per ‘gabefollower’ on Twitter, you’ll need to get rid of some game files. The materials, shaders, models, scripts, sound and particle folders could be affecting your ability to join a server.
Here’s how to get rid of these files
Restart the computer and close Steam.
Open your File, Explorer.
Go to Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\
Create a backup of two folders—models and materials if you have custom stuff/configurations for models, sprays, etc.
Select both folders and press & hold Shift and press the Delete key to permanently delete your Models and Materials folders.
Open your Steam and head to the Library section.
Right-click on CSGO and select Properties from the menu.
Go to ‘Local files’ and click on Verify Integrity of the Game Files.
People with “sv_pure” issues can directly contact the developers via email. ‘2Eggs’ on Twitter said, “If you’re facing this issue then please go ahead and send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “sv_pure kick,”People with “sv_pure” issues can directly contact the developers via email. ‘2Eggs’ on Twitter said, “If you’re facing this issue then please go ahead and send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “sv_pure kick,”
Till Valve completely patches out the issue, this is only possible solution to fix the issue as of now. You’ll have to delete these folders every time you want to join an official server if you are a modder. Hopefully Valve quickly patches this issue quickly.
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Finally, after being urged continuously by fans and pros alike, Epic Games has reportedly removed the skill-based matchmaking feature from squad mode in Fortnite. First introduced in Chapter 2, the skill-based matchmaking in squad was intended to make the game fun and competitive for players who enjoyed playing the squad mode. Sadly, the community didn’t take this change so lightly and it has ever since received severe backlash.
Although, there has been no official response from Epic Games, leakers are confident and have come to the conclusion that Epic has indeed decided to pull the plug on the skill-based matchmaking system in squad.
SBMM has been removed in Squads.
— Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks (@FNBRLeaks) May 5, 2020
Famous YouTuber, Ali ‘SypherPK’ Hassan on his May 5th upload revealed that his sources in Epic Games have confirmed that “skill-based matchmaking has been removed”. According to him, Epic was planning to make Fortnite “less sweaty” and “more casual”.
Many Fortnite stars and influencers tested the squad mode and were convinced that the horrendous feature had finally been removed. Popular YouTuber Alastair “Ali-A” Aiken recently queued squad mode to test the potential rumours. After dropping 23 frags, the YouTuber was convinced that Epic Games had finally removed the hated add-on feature from Chapter 2 and expressed happiness over it on twitter.
I heard rumours of Squads having had SBMM removed, it was then confirmed that it was, so I wanted to test it out…
This is the first time that a Battle Royal game has pulled the plug on the skill-based matchmaking in squad mode based on community feedback. While the Fortnite fans will be happy over the news, things won’t be the same for fans of other BR titles which still face the same problem.
CSGO has once again outdone itself, and this time it’s the previous monthly unique player count that the competitive shooter has surpassed, that too by a significant margin.
According to their official blog, CSGO has managed to reach a record high of 26.2 million unique players in the month of April 2020, which is about a whopping 30% increase in the unique player count of the game since March.
Apart from the fact that the COVID-19 outbreak has forced people indoors, the main reason behind the rapid increase in player count is the amount of love Valve has shown towards the game recently. They have shipped out constant updates for CSGO, adding weapon skins, new music kits, quality of life changes, weapon fixes and bug fixes to improve the gameplay experience. The devs have given the community what they wanted and the players reciprocated the love by repeatedly setting new milestones.
The influx of new players raining into the game has had an impact in an overlooked sector – the skin economy. The prices of the weapon skins for CSGO on average, has seen a considerable spike in the last month. But it is only expected to increase further, and looks like players can potentially earn a lot of extra cash by hopping onto the hype train.
Two major events for Counter-Strike are scheduled for the near future – Source 2 release and Steam opening its gates to China. Both of these will undoubtedly increase the player count further and by a massive number. This player growth is expected to elevate skin prices even more and current players of the game can find a good opportunity to make some quick profit by investing in weapon skins now.
With the closed-beta release of Riot’s new shooter VALORANT gaining worldwide attention, it appeared like the very existence of CSGO might be in danger. But fans have made it clear that the legendary title by Valve is bound to give VALORANT a run for its money.
The ESL One Road to Rio is still ongoing and the teams are battling with each other in order to secure a spot for themselves in the upcoming major. Astralis have been performing quite well in this tournament and are currently the #1 team in the world. Although we have news that they are set to add not just one but two more players to their current CS: GO Roster.
Sources: Astralis Set to Add at Least One More Player to CS:GO Rosterhttps://t.co/vqtq7JcvL8
Few months back Astralis signed Patrick “es3tag” Hansen and he would begin to play with the roster starting from July 1 but according to a report by Jarek ‘DeKay’ Lewis in the past few days, the organization has again started searching for another player to be added into their CSGO roster and possibly making a total of eight players in the team. Astralis’s head coach ‘zonic’ told in an interview that adding an extra player in the squad was beneficial for the team and for the long term performance of the current team.
It will be very interesting to see how Astralis manage all the eight players in the squad and who gets to be in the top 5 in the upcoming tournaments and who is benched off by the team. It is not confirmed that if the new players would replace the current playing team or just work together with the lineup.
Amidst of the Coronavirus outbreak, ESL had called of it’s Pro League Season 11 for Six Siege following the former situation. But on 4th May 2020, a schedule featuring a plethora of events for it’s FPS title was revealed by Ubisoft. With ESL completely out of the scene for now, the operations for the 6Siege tournaments will now be handled the UK based 3rd party client FACEIT, a platform which has previously run Counter-Strike LAN events in London six times, Arlington twice, and one time each for Milan, Anaheim, and Cancun. At the moment, Ubisoft hasn’t revealed any of the locations for it’s majors.
Recently at the Six Siege Invitational, it was confirmed that a set of “Yearly International Tournaments” will be played along with the annual 6Siege Invitational Series to be played in Canada. These Yearly International tournaments have been allotted a set of dates on which they would be conducted with the ESL Pro League already been cancelled amidst of the global health situation.
August 2020 – NA Major
November 2020 – EU Major
February 2021 – Six Invitational in Canada
May 2021- EU Major
August 2021 – NA Major
November 2021 – APAC Major
February 2022 – Six Invitational in Canada
Each year we would witness 4 teams qualify from their respective regions where three among them would come from their Pro League replacements Leagues and the remaining 1 team through an open qualifier summing up to a total of 16 teams. These announced replacements leagues will be known as North American League (NAL), European League (EUL), and Latin American League (LAL), as well as APAC North and APAC South.
On the basis of their results, top 16 consistent high-level performing teams would be allotted a berth at the Annual Invitational series which will be held in Canada after a points system would determine their fate. After these 16 teams would be confirmed, more 4 teams would join them who would compete for a slot via the open qualifiers from each region which will in due course culminate into the largest events in R6 history.
APAC set to explore some raw potential
Finally, APAC has been cut into two regions; APAC North and South, both to be run by ESL Asia-Pacific.
APAC North consists of all the Asian sub regions from the Pro League format and will thus include some of the top teams across the region with likes of Cloud9 from South Korea, CYCLOPS athlete gaming from Japan with 4 teams yet to be announced from the South East Asia Region.
While we are thrilled to call it a “Dream Run” for the South Asia region) where an unknown number of teams are all decked up to unleash their potential and have awaited this moment to show their true tactical approach in the game on a professional level. The South-Asian sub-region usually includes the nations of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The teams from these regions would compete with the Oceanic teams on a LAN Tournament after they would have to qualify from a separate qualifier or, like the other sub-regions, the local national event of the 2020 Six Masters. The winner of APAC South League would count on its lucky stars as the former would directly qualify for the main APAC LAN event.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The teams from these regions would compete with the Oceanic teams on a LAN Tournament after they would have to qualify from a separate qualifier or, like the other sub-regions, the local national event of the 2020 Six Masters. The winner of APAC South League would might to count on it’s lucky stars as the former would directly qualify for the main APAC LAN event.
over the next four years where the phase one will consist of 11and 14 in phase two. These 44 will be trifurcated in tiers; 10 in Tier One, 15 in Tier Two, and 19 in Tier Three, with the biggest teams offering the greatest support in Tier One. All of these 44 Orgs will be receiving at least one gun skin. Unlike the rest, organizations in Tier 1 will have greater involvement in choosing their operator, weapons, and design for the uniforms, weapon skins, and charms.
Zennon, a Fortnite player who is only 9 years old found himself banned from the game for 1,460 days which rounds up close to 4 years.
Fortnite is one of the most popular battle royale game developed by Epic Games. Within the game, players are dropped into a location on the map of their choice, on their own or with a team as chosen by the player alongside other 99 players. After making it to the ground, players go around to pick up as many weapons and items possible while heading to the centre of the map as it gets smaller every few mins. The last player to survive wins the match.
Thanks to Epic Games and the players have ample opportunities to make money off it. In 2019, Kyle Giersdorf, widely known as ”Bugha” took home $3 million for winning Fortnite World Cup which happened at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
Unfortunately, being involved in a competitive scenario with cash prizes Epic Games have age restrictions of the player to be at least 13 years old or beyond. Although, competitive matches with cash prizes or not, playing competitive still need permissions from their parents to play, which leads us to the current situation of Zenon.
Zenon received a ban for 1,460 days which rounds up close to 4 years, meaning he won’t be able to play from his primary account until he is 13 years old of his age.
It was a casual day of Zenon playing some matches in Arena Mode, to note down, it is the competitive game type that doesn’t include any cash prizes in reward and for a fact, the player did have permission from his father to play but rules are rules for Epic Games. The moment took place live on stream while his dad was right next to him when the game informed him of the ban and it led him straight bursting out into tears.
Hi Tfue, Could you help raise the hashtag #FreeZenon? He is a 9-year-old brazilian boy who dedicates himself every day to improve and recently has been banned for 1500 days from arena because he wasn't old enough to compete. Hearing his cry breaks my heart. Can you help us? pic.twitter.com/GVhaRK7gjC
He’s only 9 and was playing arena which isn’t a tournament and he got banned, c’mon Epic you’re better than this… #FreeZenonpic.twitter.com/sHWOdhUzWu
— Erin Muñiz | Espiritualidad (@erinmuniz_) May 5, 2020
Not long ago, Zenon received a ban for playing Cash Cups only some days before the current affair and since then he was following the rules – and also this time, his ban of 4 years is not just fair considering he didn’t break any rules.
This situation cause to the birth of ”FreeZenon” hashtag on Twitter by fellow Fortnite fans. Within the first twelve hours itself, the hashtag is been included over 91,000 tweets already. Most of the fans are calling out that Zenon doesn’t deserve such a drastic whole four years ban, considering he didn’t even cross the line while professional players XXiF and Ronaldo only had a ban for two weeks as they broke all the barriers and were found cheating at a major event. In comparison, the dramatic ban that Zenon received as a punishment is just not wise. If not to lift Zenon’s ban, they are expecting Epic Games to at least shorten the duration to something bearable.
There’s no official word from Epic Games yet, all the fellow fans can do is have fingers crossed for the time being and hope Epic Games to reconsider the situation resulting into a positive conclusion for all of us.
Gaming isn’t just a hobby or a time-killer, it’s a part of life. For many gamers, gaming is an equally, if not more important aspect than any other everyday activity. It looks like Reddit user u/joao7yt was such an avid before life decided to throw a challenge at him. But the lengths a gamer can go to enjoy his favourite game might even take god by surprise.
A clip uploaded on the Global Offensive subreddit by the Reddit user shows him having a fractured left arm, a problem that can significantly hamper everyday activities. But that wasn’t nearly enough to stop him, as he found out quite an intelligent way to keep playing some good old CSGO.
“This isn’t enough to stop me”, he captioned as he proceeded to turn his keyboard by almost a ninety degrees to get the perfect angle for his hand to reach the keys of his keyboard. He also showed how comfortably he could access the keys after tilting the keyboard.
The Reddit community seemed to love his innovation; the post was filled with positive comments in only under a few minutes since it was uploaded. The comments hailed him as a “Genius!” and “they said it couldn’t be done”, but he did it anyway, what an absolute madlad.
Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. have announced the PUBG Mobile India Series 2020 tournament with a prize pool of Rs 50 Lakhs and its registrations are now open.
Photo: SportsKeeda
The tournament is regarded as the most prestigious in India because of its format to allow anyone with a 4 man squad to compete in open qualifiers and vie for the trophy, which means that the top teams can take nothing for granted and always have to be on their toes. After registering for the tournament, a team has to play a total of 15 in game qualifiers, out of which the top 10 will be considered. Based on the performances in these 10 matches, the top 248 teams will advance to the online qualifiers where they will be joined by 8 invited teams.
In the online qualifiers, the 256 teams will be split into 16 groups, who will play 2 matches and the top 3 teams from each group will proceed to the quarter finals. In addition to these 48 teams, 8 teams with the most kills will also join them. Finally, 8 more teams will be invited to play the quarter finals. From 64, the top half will proceed to the semi finals, where the top 16 teams will be chosen to play the grand finale to compete for the lion’s share of the Rs 50 Lac prize pool.
The finals will witness a gruelling 3 days of action with 6 games on each day, the culmination of which will decide the champion of this year. The stakes of the tournament are high, since the 1st placed team will get a massive Rs 20 Lac as their prize money, which will quickly drop to Rs 5 Lac for the 2nd placed team. Smaller decrements in the prize money after 2nd means that every team is assured at least Rs 50,000 for qualifying for the finals.
Interestingly, even with giving huge sums of money to the finalists, it adds up to only Rs 45 Lac and for good reason. This year, Rs 5 Lac has been reserved for some some special awards, like “The Chosen One”, which will be awarded to the MVP of the tournament, or the “headshot expert”, for the player with the most headshots, and my favourite, “The grenadier”, which will be awarded to the squad with the most grenade kills. These 4 player awards and 3 squad awards, worth Rs 50,000 and Rs 1,00,000 each, will keep the tournament exciting down to the last kill.
The dates of the finals of PMIS haven’t been announced but it is expected to be in Mid July or early August.
To register for the PUBG Mobile India Series 2020, follow these simple steps:
