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Faker offered a blank cheque to join a North American Team

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Faker offered a blank cheque to join a North American Team

Lee Sang-hyeok, better known by his in-game alias Faker is widely considered as one of the greatest individuals in the history of League Of Legends and best mid laner of all time.

In a Korean interview show, Faker revealed that a North American team gave a blank cheque to the Korean, leaving it up to him to label the expense of his services. Initially, he was unsure about the terms of the contract but later he was certain that NA did offer him a blank cheque. The 22-year-old is no stranger to deals involving huge money as Tencent recent tired to lure him to China for their League Of Legend’s Pro League for $10 Million.

Faker claimed his loyalty to his fans is the reason behind rejecting this deal. He is unwilling to give up the already established team and fan base he has with his current organization and them sticking with him for his entire career so far has made him very appreciative of them.

TSM is looking for a new CSGO roster

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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TSM is looking for a new CSGO roster

Matthew ‘WARDELL’ Yu has been out of top-level Counter Strike since May 2019 after his playtime with Ghost Gaming came to an end. Since then he has been streaming religiously on Twitch.

During one of his FACEIT grinds earlier, one of his teammates revealed that Riot and TSM are looking to form a new team. He revealed enough for us to confirm that, just when another player interfered by saying that streamers are playing with them.

TSM were last seen in action with a North American line-up in ESEA Season 23 MDL Global Challenge where they came 7-8th. TSM reached significant heights with their Danish line up before they were painted in Astralis colors.

Cloud9 complete ATK acquisition – Report

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Cloud9 complete ATK acquisition – Report

According to a report by Jared ‘DeKay’ Lewis, Cloud9 has completed the acquisition of the ATK roster ahead of the 2020 season’s commencement.

This move has been rumoured for quite a while after three of their star players in Timothy “autimatic” Ta, Kenneth “Koosta” Suen and Damian “daps” Steele left the American organization for Gen.G. The three remaining players in the lineup have already decided their fate, mixwell is in search of a new team, while TenZ is set to stay with the organization as a content creator and golden who was loan to Fnatic is seemed to be sticking around with them considering his recent performances.

ATK roster is a mix of two South Africans along with 3 American players. They delivered the best performance in the history of the organization a few days back. Performing above their paygrade, they were able to achieve a 7-8 finish in ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals. In the tournament, they were able to best North with a 2:0 and G2 Esports with a 2:1 best of 3 scorelines before falling short against Mousesports.

The expected Cloud9 roster will be:

  • Aran ‘sonic’ Groesbeek
  • Johnny ‘JT’ Theodosiou
  • Ricky ‘floppy’ Kemery
  • Ian ‘motm’ Hardy
  • Josh ‘oSee’ Ohm

CSGO: ARCY field hades as they stick to NEO

Bharat Kotwani
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CSGO: ARCY field hades as they stick to NEO

Polish team ARCY will continue to field Ex-VP Pro Filip “NEO” Kubski for their upcoming fixtures while they have signed Olek “hades” Miskiewicz on loan from Team AVEZ.

At the end of 2019, ARCY saw Paweล‚ “dycha” Dycha and Jacek “MINISE” Jeziak step down from the roster who were originally from Aristocracy. With dycha being the first among the duo to depart, ARCY decided to bring in NEO to fill in the shoes of dycha. The later did help the team to compete at the Qi Banja Luka tournament but a mediocre performance from the team saw them crash to the last place on the tournament leaderboard. With MINISE leaving, Olek “hades” Miskiewicz has been bought up on Loan by the Polish side as they look forward to reserving a seat at the IEM Katowice 2020.

With the addition of hades, ARCY stand as:

  • Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas
  • Karol “rallen” Rodowicz
  • Mikoล‚aj “mouz” Karolewski
  • Filip “NEO” Kubski
  • Olek “hades” Miskiewicz (loan)
  • Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski (coach)

These are the best COD MW pro settings says Attach

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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These are the best COD MW pro settings says Attach

New York Subliners pro player Dillon ‘Attach’ Price has revealed the best possible settings for Modern Warfare ahead of the season.

Attach is a 22-year-old professional Call Of Duty player from Moonpark, California and is a very respected personality in the pro scene. He is one of the 6 players to have won the Call Of Duty World Championship in their first appearance.

In the latest video uploaded on his YouTube channel, he goes on to explain how these settings are designed to help the player get a cut over the competition.

For audio settings:

  • Audio Mix: Boost High
  • Master Volume: 80
  • Music Volume: 0
  • Dialogue Volume: 100
  • Effects Volume: 100
  • Juggernaut Music: Enabled
  • Hit Marker Sound Effects: MW

For video settings:

  • Game Visual: FPS Mode
  • Brightness: 100
  • Contrast: 80
  • Saturation: 50
  • Sharpness: 100
  • Trace Free: 80
  • Volume: 0

Although these settings might not suit every single player out there but it will definitely work out for the majority, given the fact these settings are devised for playing competitively. Only a little could go wrong with them as they directly come from the youngest Call Of Duty World Champion ever.

Sprout pick up oskar

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Sprout pick up oskar

Czech AWPer Tomรกลก ‘oskar’ ล ลฅastnรฝ has been picked up by German esports organization Sprout.

oskar was benched from HellRasiers after a string of poor performances during his second foray with them. After coming back to the CIS organization he failed to replicate his past form which forced him to give up his place and move over to the sidelines.

oskar in his new team will be joined by spiddi, faveN, and dennis. With his addition forming a four man roster, there is yet another player on the way to this team as syrsoN and k1to left for BIG.

Sprout’s four man roster is:

 Timo “Spiidi” Richter
 Josef “faveN” Baumann
 Denis “denis” Howell
 Tomรกลก “oskar” ล ลฅastnรฝ

 Niclas “enkay J” Krumhorn (coach)

oskar was picked up as soon as his contract with HellRaisers expired. His debut in Sprout colors will be in DreamHack Open Leipzig later in January 2020.

Ninjas in Pyjamas with huge 2020 revamp

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Ninjas in Pyjamas with huge 2020 revamp

Jonas ‘calc’ Gundersen, former professional Counter-Strike 1.6 player has taken charge of Ninjas In Pyjamas as their Chief Operating Officer. calc will look after esports operations and revenue after serving North as their Chief Commercial Officer.

calc described this to be a ‘Dream Job’ to The Esports Observer then addedย โ€œI think NiP is arguably one of the most iconic brands within gaming, globally. It has been for many years,โ€. โ€œA more structured approach builds up the legacy of teams and a more sound revenue structure for all teams, including our competitors, so we can build rivalries and storylines that last for decades.โ€

Besides a change in management, NIP has established a Head Quarter in Stockholm where over 50 staff and players are stationed. The HQ includes a Bootcamp for players, a content studio, gym and many other interactive areas.

NIP are currently competing in Counter-Strike Global Offensive, PlayerUnknown’s Battleground, Dota 2 and Rainbow Six Siege. They are partnered with Asus ROG, Betway, Faceit, NETGEAR, Twitch and Panasonic but their COO explained that making esports based revenue is their primary goal for 2020.โ€œWhether or not that happens in one, two, or five years, and in what capacity and business model, is yet to be determined.” said Gundersen.

vanity released from eUnited

Aditya Singhal
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vanity released from eUnited

Anthony ‘vanity’ Malaspina, the in-game leader for eUnited has announced on his twitter that he will no longer be part of the organization.

eUnited picked the in-game leader from Swole Patrol in February 2019 in a package with Edgar ‘MarkE’ Maldonaldo and Victor ‘food’ Wong.

Lackluster performances and exits in the group stage in the few offline events that they attended, left the team with the option to bench him in starting of November and bring back Kaleb ‘moose’ Jayne from bench and Ryan ‘freakzoid’ Abadir made a comeback in the roster as well and took the role of Captain. Still the results for the team didn’t improve much with 7-8th finish in EPL and no qualification in rest of the events in 2019.

eUnited now have:
โ—Austin ‘Cooper-‘ Abadir
โ—Victor ‘food’ Wong
โ—Kaleb ‘moose’ Jayne
โ—Edgar ‘MarkE’ Maldonaldo
โ—Ryan ‘freakazoid’ Abadir
โ—Armeen ‘a2z’ Toussi (coach)

summit1g wins the worst CSGO play of the decade

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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summit1g wins the worst CSGO play of the decade

Shorty after official CSGO Twitter started a poll for the fans to decided the best play made in the past decade, a Twitter user who goes by the handle @FishiestDude kicked off a poll of his own to judge the worst play made in the aforementioned period.

Among the chosen moments of epic failure, four such plays stood out that will forever be etched into the hearts of the fans. Those plays were summit1g’s failed molotov, Karrigan missing an easy shots onto KennyS, s1mple’s knife fail against nitr0 and the most recent one being G2’s failing to defuse the bomb even with ample time left.

summit1g won the poll after collecting 35% votes, 2% above G2’s debacle few months back while s1mple came in 3rd and karrigan in 4th place.

It is safe to say summit might not have won any trophy in his professional CSGO career but this can be considered as an achievement in certain perspectives. summit, playing for Splyce at the time clutched a 1v2 will little health remaining, after taking both players down he quickly rushed towards the bomb in order to defuse it but he got caught in his own molly, which led him to lose his life. The hilarious moment from DreamHack has made a special place in hearts of every CSGO admirer.

summit1g has move past those days, now he is a prominent voice in the streaming industry. Such things happens to the best of us, so no shames there. Even the best player in the world is on the same list as him, that might be considered as a positive takeaway from summit’s point of view.

How to use Steam on Apple Watch

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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How to use Steam on Apple Watch

Steam mobile app might look perfunctory at times but it comes in handy more often than not. It brings us the ability to ask that impatient friend to stop the search as you start CSGO or so show off our statistics to the plebs in school.

Apple watch boasts a wide range of exclusive application and the last of them being The Smoke app. This application allows users to access the Steam application from your Apple Watch and brings features similar to that of its android counter part according to 9to5Mac.

The following are the available features at the time of writing:

  • View the games you own as well as your achievement statuses and total play time
  • View the store information for the games you and your friends own (Price, review and player numbers, genre etc.)
  • See if your friends are online and the games they have recently played
  • Find news articles for the games you own.
  • Tap a news article to save it to your phone!
  • Customize the iOS app by choosing the theme color and changing the app icon
  • Share saved news articles with friends

This app is available for free in the app store and is developed by Damien Sheridan.

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