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PUBG: Community speaks, Acer listens

Aditya Singhal
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PUBG: Community speaks, Acer listens

The Acer Predator League 2020 caused many grievances in the community of PUBG PC in India which was regarding the qualifiers format, points system etc which pushed us to help the community and write an article on the same.

The number of games in the tournament was creating a problem among the community, previously it was a Best-of-1 format for the online qualifiers which has now been changed to a Best-of-5 format and in the LAN finals previously it was a Best-of-3 which has now been increased to a Best-of-5 as well. This was a big concern and was put up by us to which the organisers responded and did the needful.

The other problem in the tournament was the number of teams in a server which was 20 teams as per the previous rules but now it has been changed to 16 teams for qualifiers as well as the LAN Final happening in Bangalore.

The points system that was being used in the tournament was not acceptable in the current Meta and became obsolete but now after our report it has changed according to the point system which is in the Meta right now and followed in every tournament of PUBG PC worldwide.

Team TalkEsport is always with the community and will keenly help in growing the esports and gaming industry in India.

DreamHack Delhi tickets now available at BookMyShow

Abhishek Bajaj
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DreamHack Delhi tickets now available at BookMyShow

The second installment of a DreamHack event in India is right around the corner, with Delhi the place to be between December 6 to 8, 2019.

The tickets are now on sale and can be purchased on the popular platform BookMyShow. There are three categories of tickets for the gaming enthusiasts.

The Day Pass for Casual Participants is priced starting from a minimal INR 499, which will give purchasers access to retro and tabletop games. The All Day Pass that allows enthusiasts entry on all three days of the event is priced at INR 999.

Participants that want to take part in the ‘BYOD’ events have to purchase the Gamer Participant BYOD Season Pass priced at INR 1,999. Gamers looking to participate in ‘BYOC’ disciplines will have to incur a charge of INR 2,499. Both the passes come with access to a standard desk and chair for the purchaser.

The Super Epic BYOC Pass is priced at INR 4,999 and enables the buyer with Fastrack Access lanes Tea and Coffee. Along with the aforementioned facility, the gamers buyng this pass will be provided a padded chair instead of a normal one.

The entry time for all Passes is at 0800 Hours on all days. You can buy the passes here.

YaLLa Esports, Goliath Gaming receive direct invites for DreamHack Delhi

Abhishek Bajaj
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YaLLa Esports, Goliath Gaming receive direct invites for DreamHack Delhi

DreamHack Delhi is just around the corner and the fans have been waiting in anticipation to find out the teams that they will see in action in Delhi between December 6 to 8.

Lucid Dream had already grabbed one of the six available slots, winning the ‘Indian’ Online Qualifiers over Global Esports, with one slot going to the winner of the ESL Masters Fall LAN Finale in Hyderabad.

Four slots were kept for direct invites and now, DreamHack have announced two of them. Middle-Eastern stack YaLLa Esports, who have a history of competing in ESL Masters, have been handed a direct invite for the event.

YaLLa were also in attendance at ZOWIE eXTREMESLAND 2019 and suffered the same fate as Entity, bowing out in the Decider Match for their respective group to clock a Top 12 finish in China.

The other team that has been confirmed is South African team Goliath Gaming. The highlight or the star presence in the team is Dimitri ‘Detrony’ Hadjipaschali, who previously played for Bravado and was a part of the roster that won DreamHack Mumbai.

While the two teams are good in their own ways, fans will now be waiting to see if there is any high-profile team that is handed one of the two remaining invites.

The invite to YaLLa might also raise the question of a possible invite to Entity. The Indian team could not take part in the Indian Online Qualifiers due to ZOWIE eXTREMESLAND and have not qualified for the ESL Masters LAN Finale, which means they are set to miss DreamHack Delhi if they do not receive a direct invite to the event.

BookMyShow announces NAFK PUBG Mobile Championship

Varun Parashar
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BookMyShow announces NAFK PUBG Mobile Championship

The mobile esports scenario is burgeoning and Book My Show has stepped in to uplift the scene even higher. NAFK PUBG Mobile Championship presented by Book My Show is a three way online tournament where winners will get a chance to meet Alan Walker.

Three online tournaments will take place and the competition will feature a total prize pool of 8 lakhs INR. Top 3 teams from their respective tournaments will get free invites to Alan Walker’s Aviation tour by Sunburn Arena in either of the 3 venues (Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi). The best part about this is that the registration is absolutely free and it is projected that over 50,000 squads comprising of 4 players will be a part of this massive tournament. A squad can participate in either 1 or all 3 online tournaments but they cannot register in the same tournament more than once.

Another opportunity comes running towards PUBG Mobile players where using sheer skill and performance supremacy over the competitors, teams will get a chance to walk away with a massive share of the 8 lakhs INR prize pool as well as meet Alan Walker.

Stay tuned for more exciting news and updates!

Manchester City signs FIFA esports player Ryan Pessoa

Aditya Singhal
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Manchester City signs FIFA esports player Ryan Pessoa

Ryan Pessoa becomes the second esports player for Manchester city for the FIFA 20 Season, following the acquisition of the Shauun “Shellzz” Springette in December 2018.

“It’s a massive honour to sign for such a prestigious club, who have clear ambition both on the football pitch, and on the virtual one” Ryan said. “I will do my best to ensure I perform at the highest level to make this club proud”

Ryan has previously represented the clup with Shellzz at the eClub world cup where they reached the quarterfinals and now will be seen representing the club in the ePremium League qualifiers to qualify for the Finals next March.

Acer Predator India qualifier: Players unhappy with rulebook and Qualifiers

Aditya Singhal
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Acer Predator India qualifier: Players unhappy with rulebook and Qualifiers

Acer predator league is the biggest tournament for the PUBG PC players of India having the biggest prize-pool of INR 15 Lac and chance to represent the country in the Asia-Pacific finals LAN event.

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Rulebook for the tournament states rules from the old scoring system which is outdated from more than 9 months and not the Super Rule-set which is now used in every PUBG PC Tournament.

Online Qualifiers format is far from optimal with only a BO1 match deciding the teams to qualify for the LAN in Bangalore which will lead to qualification of teams which have very less competitive experience and will lead to really mediocre level of skill group in the Bangalore LAN Final. 20 teams will be qualified for the LAN in Bangalore which is also not acceptable as tournaments in the current scene.

Many prominent players which are constantly participating in the tournaments in India have voiced their concerns over the use of a rudimentary point system and a non optimal qualifiers format which gives room for a-short-in-the-dark result rather than an optimal one. These players now want to reach out to the organisations involved and the scope of changes they are looking to purpose.

UPDATE: Acer India and The Organisers are changing the rule book and Qualifiers format from BO1 to BO5 online qualifiers and the LAN in Bangalore too being a BO5. The point system is also being changed to the system which are used in current Meta and the Number of teams for the LAN has also been reduced to 16 from 20 as per the PUBG Esports Super settings suggests.

Team Corinthians Wins Free Fire World Series 2019

Varun Parashar
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Team Corinthians Wins Free Fire World Series 2019

Record 2 million peak concurrent viewers, Garena confirms Indonesia for 2020

In an intense and hard-fought battle, team Corinthians captured the championship at the 2019 Free Fire World Series held this weekend at Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, narrowly beating out Russian team Sbornaya ChR. Illuminate from Thailand took third place.

Brazilian team Corinthians outplayed 11 other teams from North America, Latin America (South and North), Russia, Southeast Asia, India and MENA with a total of 2300 points to earn the top cash prize of $200,000. The champion path was not easy for team Corinthians because they were behind Russian team Sbornaya ChR 7th round. Corinthians made a comeback in the final round to win the Free Fire World Series 2019.

Here is the full scoreboard of Free Fire World Series 2019 finals:

  • Corinthians (2300 pts)
  • Sbornaya CHR (2190 pts)
  • Illuminate (2020 pts)
  • LGDS (1695 pts)
  • Infinity Esports Mobile (1580 pts)
  • Team Flash (1455 pts)
  • Arctic Gaming (1200 pts)
  • Dranix Esports (805 pts)
  • Loud (790 pts)
  • Infinity_YT (765 pts)
  • Nawabzade (630 pts)
  • Samurai Team (490 pts)

Free Fire World Series 2019 attracted more than 2 million peak concurrent views online, which is a world record high for a mobile esports tournament, according to Esports Charts. In total, the World Series racked up over 100 million online views around the world.

The biggest Free Fire event of the year, the World Series tournament brought together 12 teams who earned the number one seed from regional leagues to compete for a total prize pool of $400,000. Brazil’s top DJ and record producer Alok, Brazilian star Mano Brown & MC Jottapê opened the event with an exclusive performance. As Free Fire’s first resident DJ, Alok performed his recently released Vale Vale.

Garena also confirmed that Free Fire World Series 2020 will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia – bringing the heart of the action back to Southeast Asia.

Stay tuned for more exciting news and updates!

Rainbow Six: Siege India Series 2019 LAN Finale announced

Varun Parashar
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Rainbow Six: Siege India Series 2019 LAN Finale announced

The community has what it asked for, Rainbow Six: Siege gets across the board with its first massive LAN Finale in the country.

Nodwin Gaming, India’s leading esports giant along with ESL, the world’s largest esports firm have announced the Rainbow Siege India Series 2019. The Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) in Kondapur, will be hosting the finals beginning from 22nd November 2019.

For the First time in India, ESL along with NODWIN Gaming, brought the Rainbow Six: Seige India Series, the first official tournament by Ubisoft, developers of the game. The finale for the India series will see the 4 qualified teams put in their all for a prize pool of INR 2,00,000.

The journey towards the finale went through 2 online qualifiers where the top 2 teams from each qualifier were given a slot in the LAN Finale of the tournament. The qualifiers took place online on the ESL Play platform and a huge number of teams registered for the tournament the total number being 188 registered teams. This shows how big the community of Rainbow Six: Siege is in India. The winner will be walking away with a prize money of INR 1,00,000, the runner-up’s share will be 50,000 INR, while the 3rd and 4th positioned teams will get 25,000 INR each.

Akshat Rathee, Founder and MD, NODWIN Gaming had a few words to share:

“The ESL Play R6 Community Cups were started by us close to a year ago in our effort in nurturing and keeping together this passionate community. Like all good things, this has levelled up and has paved the way for a LAN Finale! Hosted alongside big tournaments like the ESL India Premiership and the Red Bull R1v1r Runes, the Rainbow 6 India Series LAN Finale will take place under our latest product, the NODWIN Esports Arena. The overwhelming response from our community at our first attempt to mainstream R6 is truly a boost going forward..”

The top 4 teams competing in the Lan Finals are:

  1. Nite Esports
  2. Vector Sports
  3. Team Quantum G1
  4. Level Zero Esports

All the best to the teams competing in the LAN finale and we are looking forward to seeing this first of its kind event to become a massive success.

Stay tuned for more news and updates!

A new Half-Life game to be announced this week by Valve

Prateek Jain
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A new Half-Life game to be announced this week by Valve

Valve the game developers behind the fan-favourite game series Half-Life is set to announce a new Half-Life game named Half-Life: Alyx, a flagship VR game this Thursday at 10am PT.

The new game won’t be a continuation of the Half-Life 2 story, but rather will feature the story of Alyx Vance, a young women and prominent figure from Half-Life 2’s story, who played a major role in human resistance and was close friend to game’s protagonist, Gordan Freeman.

Although some fans might be disappointed as they were hoping to see the continuations of Freeman’s journey, but we should not right off the game just yet. Valve might have a surprise lore about Freeman in Alyx’s story which might also act as plot for the next game.

Right now, the game is staged to be a flagship VR title only and no confirmation for PC version is available at the moment. The release of flagship VR game follows Valve’s release of “Valve Index”, their own dedicated VR headset. At the time of reveal of Index, Valve had confirmed about a flagship VR game in works to be released before the end of the year.

Following that various leaks also surfaced about a Half-Life game in work, with the story script leaks by the writer to presence of codes in Source 2 engine referring to Half-Life. The talk heated yet again yesterday when a transcript of interview between Valve executives and a game broadcaster leaked online which stated “March 2020, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ coming out.”

After the debate heated, Valve themselves posted about the upcoming announcement of the game on Twitter confirming the previous leak.

New CS:GO Operation Shattered Web brings Agents, missions, and SG 553 nerf

Abhishek Bajaj
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New CS:GO Operation Shattered Web brings Agents, missions, and SG 553 nerf

Good news for CSGO fans as Valve have released a new Operation along with several adjustments to weaponry.

Operation Shattered Web has been released and it introduces ground breaking new features into the realm of CSGO.

There are new models that can be unlocked in game, with users able to play with a Female Model for the very first time.

Along with the new ‘agents’, there are new maps and features added to highlight the round with end-of-the-round screens.

Other features of the new Operation is that Valve have released a new case, new weaponry and knives into the game, which usually accompanies an Operation.

To top it off though, Valve have made changes to weaponry, with an increase in the price of SG 553 to $3000 a welcome one. FAMAS and Galil have both received spray buffs along with a reduction of 200$ each in their price. It will be important to see how the meta unfolds after this update. But, these are exciting times for fans of the game and the OG FAMAS fans.

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