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All you need to know about World Esports Association – WESA

Deepak Ojha
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All you need to know about World Esports Association – WESA

Earlier today, an image was posted by a Reddit user (now deleted his account), which seemed to be a back-drop for some announcement being ruled out by an organization, or firmly association called WESA, abbreviated, World Esports Association. The image was leaked prior to the announcement by the printer who was given the job-work, unfortunately he leaked something which wasn’t supposed to be made public that way, out of excitement.

Although this is still unclear about what WESA will actually do, the presumption can be made upon the involvements of the biggies and the association title.

World Esports Association

From what the name suggests to be, association is “a connection or cooperative link between people or organizations. ” which in simpler form means, a group of people organized for a joint purpose. The purpose maybe something to do with events, companies, participation and could be sponsors as well. World Esports Association can also be defined as a resistant organization and group of people which, if collaborate or agree to each other, will not be able to adhere and do business elsewhere.

From what we could derive from the leaked image, it has names of some of the world’s biggest eSports organizations, ESL, fnatic, Na’vi, Virtus.Pro, HellRaisers, mousesports, Ninjas In Pyjamas, and EnVyUs. Astralis has been left out due to unknown reasons.

What possibly will be the role of WESA

An organization or an association of this level with some of the world’s biggest organization as their committers will surely be very powerful. A representative of the association will have the powers in decision making in every terms. For an instance, if ESL organizes a WESA-limited event, no teams other than the WESA-supported ones will be able to participate in the event and it also goes vice-versa. The WESA cooperated teams and organizations might as well not be allowed to participate elsewhere or other events organized by non-ESL management.

This kind of barrier and its relentless operations will limit the community in a specified dimensions which will be under control of WESA. With absence of Valve’s interference and community discussions, the organizations and the law makers at WESA would possibly have the control over all of the participating organization with their mutual consent.

Disgraceful and unethical move

Not only on Reddit and its threads, perhaps the community heavy weights are also expecting something which will not be healthy and worthy for future of the game since everything will be limited and entitled to the decision makers of WESA. In other words, the game, organizers, participants will be entering into a political venture which will be under the control of the association and everything.. without the game possessor, Valve.

WESA’s response

Old eLeVeN on a break, EHOME left with four man Roster

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Old eLeVeN on a break, EHOME left with four man Roster

The recent rumors of ‘eleven’ being kicked from team EHOME is been clarified by the Organisation as they announced that eleven is not kicked from the team.

Eleven decided to put up a break on his professional gaming carrier until the end of Ti6.

old elevenRen ‘eLeVeN’ Yangwei

Ehome’s Management Stated:

“Due to his grandfather’s recent health issues, along with his own personal desire, eLeVeN has chosen to take a break until after TI6 in order to spend time with family and recharge. Since joining EHOME, he’s been a great contributor and friend and we support his decision no matter what it is. When the time comes, eLeVeN will be welcomed back into the EHOME family fully. ”

Source : Ehome’s Twitlonger

The reason for elevens decision to take a break till the end of ti6 is also because of their recent performance which lead them in a position of not qualifying for big LAN events and even failing to qualify for the The Manila Majors.

Eleven also stated that he will return back to the scene after TI6 and most likely to the same team.

Old Eleven Leaves for a break, Ehome Left with 4 man roster.

Due to Eleven’s departure, Ehome is now left with 4 players. The organisation will soon announce the last member of team who will play as a stand in for team team during the absence of their position one (Carry) player i.e Old Eleven.

As Ehome did not register any substitute player on the Valve’s team registration, departure of “Old eleven” from team will result in the loss of opportunity from getting direct invites at TI6. As the rules states disqualification of any organisation that changes roster after 27th of March. Ehome now have to either transfer a player from another team, Or look up for the free agents to complete their roster to participate in further tournaments during course of Old Elevens break

EHOME current roster:

Ren ‘eLeVeN‘ Yangwei
Wang ‘old chicken‘ Zhiyong
Daryl Koh ‘iceiceice‘ Pei Xiang
Zhang ‘LaNm‘ Zhicheng
Lu ‘Fenrir‘ Chao

Natec Genesis announce CSGO 1vs1 online event #BETHEBEAST

Arpita Tewari
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Natec Genesis announce CSGO 1vs1 online event #BETHEBEAST

The polish computer hardware maker Natec Genesis has announced a CS:GO 1v1 online event for CS:GO India community for which the prize-pool will be Rs. 6,000 and the event will begin in June first week with 128 participants.

After several reports of Natec Genesis planning to launch in India was being circulated, there was a sheer speculation of the launch. The wide range and the inexpensiveness of the product created a great impression and the company got an immense feedback from the community in return.

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Natec Genesis 1v1 CS:GO online event for India

The online CS:GO 1 versus 1 will be starting from June 2016 and will feature three different aim maps, the slots will be limited at 128. The prize pool however is quiet interesting, even though the format of the game is 1 versus 1 and the sole purpose of the event revolves around boosting the brand presence in the field, the prize pool has been overwhelmed with the fact of the matter.

The prizes will be distributed in a regular format for winners, first runner-up and a second runner-up, with no registration fees whatsoever the company will give out a total of Rs. 6,000 in cash and some goodies. The registrations is now open here.

1st prize – 3000 in cash 
2nd prize – 2000 in cash
3rd prize – 1000 in cash

Bonus: MVP – Gets official Natec Genesis gaming products. (Determined based on performance)

The event will see a single elimination format with best-of-1 ruling out for the initial rounds and a best-of-three at later stages. The event is scheduled to be in the late evening hours everyday whereas, semi-finals and finals will be on weekends. All the games will be hosted on a server provided by Drag2Death.

While talking to the distributor of the brand, Lalit Jain, Sunder Electronics, he said: “India is an eSports developing nation, with the right push and investments, India can be the best eSports market in the world in near future.” We will be conducting DotA 2 and FIFA events at a later stage after successfully commencing the first one.” added Lalit.

TyLoo defeats Renegades to win PGL KeSPA Asia Minor

Sajid Paik
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TyLoo defeats Renegades to win PGL KeSPA Asia Minor

TyLoo outperformed Renegades in a best of thee finals at PGL KeSPA Minor Championship Asia grand final concluding the series at 2-1 (Cbbel 5-16, Mirage 16-5 and Cache 16-13).

The match-up started with Renegades picking Cbble and comfortably able to win it over the Chinese roster when they beat them with a strong and marginal scoreline after leading the charts by straight 13 rounds in the first half of the first map, final scoreline 5-16.

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The series then approached towards the second map where TyLoo’s favorite Mirage where they already have had a couple of victories, they beat Renegades in the same fashionable manner  and avenged Cbble’s loss with Mirage’s win with scoreboard ticking at 16-5, this time in favor of the Chinese.

The third map, however, was very similar to what previously happened with Renegades starting strong and were able to put the favorable first half at 11-4 as terrorist. TyLoo however, didn’t lose hope and they were even better in executing the terrorist’s strategies, by when, they were able to grab the title of the champions just after winning the third map with kind of close battle and the score line limiting at 16-13 and an additional $30,000 in the bank.

Both the teams will have their say and slots in the ESL One Colonge 2016 majors where they will be competing against world’s best CSGO teams.

Mushi returns to Fnatic DotA 2 squad, 343 to replace Net

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Mushi returns to Fnatic DotA 2 squad, 343 to replace Net

Even though after the spectacular performance from team Fnatic in the past few month which got the team direct invites to the tournaments and majors. The organization had to go through some roster changes, while Mushi steps back in the team 343 will be replacing Net.

Fnatic with the current roster is regarded as one of the best teams in the world and currently ranked at position 1 according to the data and stats from GosuGamers. Although the organization had to through the roster changes, there was little concern about the performance, the major reason behind the roster shuffle was irrelevant to the in-game performances, having a team with 6 players is always been a problem and Fnatic was the victim of a similar misfortune with their current roster.

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Right after the Shanghai Majors, DJ wanted a break to sort his VISA issues which lead to the team being in an unfortunate position with only 4 active players. Eventually, to participate in the forthcoming tournaments Fnatic decided to take up 343 as a stand-in.

The performance of the team was marvelous after the addition of 343 to the roster and Fnatic then decided to have him as a full time substitute in their roster since the tuning of the rest of the players as the players were comfortable playing with him.

Later, When It was the time for DJ to Return to the team when Mushi was the next one to take a temporary rest regarding health concerns. 343 stood up for Fnatic to replace Mushi in his absence. Since, now Mushi is back to his fitness and plans on returning into the scene after his break, Fnatic management had to take the heavy-hearted decision and underwent a major roster change.

The now effective decision from Fnatic management was to include Mushi and 343 to the starting lineup and Net as a full time Substitute which in turn led to the departure of Net from the roster.

From 343’s perspective

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Net’s take on the shuffle

“On The Upcoming Tournament Event, You guys won’t see my name in the Fnatic, I have to thank Fnatic that gave me a chance to learn and also people who support me all time.”

Statement from Fnatic management – Eric “Reinnnn” Khor

“It is with a very heavy heart that we have to announce the departure of Net from our team. Through his time in Fnatic, I have gotten to know him a lot better and also the dedication that he put into the game. Generally a quiet person, it was a refreshing change to see Net went from the introvert that he is into the guy who cracks the joke. It really felt like a family here but we knew the inevitable was coming and someone had to be subbed out. After a lot of discussion, the team decided that Net would be the one to take the back seat. We would have loved him to stay with us but it is understandable that he would want to leave the team to pursue another opportunity. Here, I want to thank Net for all the joyous times and all his hard work. I wish him all the best for his future.”

Wishing all the very best to the players of Team Fnatic and Net for the upcoming major tournaments. We hope to see a stable lineup in near future and some great DotA performances from the team.

Olofmeister dances on Indian Bollywood song after Mantrouse trolls

Sajid Paik
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Olofmeister dances on Indian Bollywood song after Mantrouse trolls

Mantrouse is famous, famous for trolling. He picks the right spot and knows his subject of trolling. In this funny video from last year, October 2015. Mantrousee is seing trolling Olofmeister on his stream with sneaky donation messages to grab his attention over.

Watch this funny video!

#RIPCOD is trending on Twitter; Activision CEO comes to rescue

Deepak Ojha
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#RIPCOD is trending on Twitter; Activision CEO comes to rescue

After EA released some sneak peek of their latest game in the addition to Battlefield franchise, the internet broke and Activison lost. And #RIPCOD set a trend. Doesn’t sound logical? Well..

First of all, let’s be clear, Battlefield vs CallOfDuty has been a long deferred war, each time when Battlefield gets a new release with a trailer, whole of internet breaks apart with #RIPCOD trending all over social networks and people ride on shitstorms talking about how bad CoD would be but it doesn’t right? Every time they tend to sell the game 100x times more than the community projection. In a report and historical data gathered by StatisticBrain, CallOfDuty: Ghosts sold over 16million copies followed by CallOfDuty: Black Ops 3 (released in 15) which sold over 4.5 million copies till date.

#RIPCOD

#RIPCOD

The hashtag #RIPCOD is currently trending on twitter worldwide and it is not just stopping at this. Other than twitter, whole of the Battlefield and CoD players have shown disgraceful feedback towards the launch trailer of CoD: Infinity Ward and the launch trailer now has over 600,000 dislikes which now holds a record for the most disliked game trailer video in YouTube history.

Well, very sure Activision did aim to break and make some records with this game but not in this motion to be subtle. Comments such as ‘you suck’ and ‘fail cod’ are spammed elsewhere the game is discussed. The gamers are so much out of patience with the non-interesting trailer of the game that until now, while writing this piece, the video’s dislikes has taken over the numbers of people with little hopes.

#RIPCOD

Battlefield 1 trailer

The huge storm of dislikes was already underway just after Activision unveiled the trailer; later, to do the honors for phase two, EA released the trailer of Battlefield 1 and it just became everything messy at a different level. Memes, trolls, abuses and what not to defame the whole of franchise.

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#RIPCOD Hashtag graph

The level of disagreement and the rage was so strong that it got Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg under the scanner, and while asking about certain questions on the integrity of developing such a mass criticized game, he responded.

First of all, you gotta love the passion of gamers. This is an industry like no other and a fan base like no other. We love that our fans treat this franchise like their own and have such strong points of view about it. There just aren’t many entertainment franchises on earth that can generate the kind of passion that Call of Duty can… and that’s a good thing.

He was also quick to point out how the Black Ops 2 trailer held the previous record of being the most disliked Call of Duty game trailer and it eventually turned out to be the most successful Call of Duty game ever made.

By quickly comparing the current rage with that of its predecessor, he told about how Black Ops 2 trailer held the previous record of being the most disliked game-trailer which eventually turned out to be the most successful Call of Duty game ever produced.

Meet Nvidia GTX 1080, 1070 – World’s most advanced GPU

Arpita Tewari
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Meet Nvidia GTX 1080, 1070 – World’s most advanced GPU

After months of curiosity, expectations and calculations, Nvidia has held the stir of the speculation and officially announced the arrival of it’s newest series of top performing most advanced GPU, Nvidia GTX 1080, which will be followed by GTX 1070 and probably GTX 1060 / 1050 a bit later on.

Successors to the game-changer and the most successful card series ever for Nvidia, the 980 and 970; the newest series 1080 and 1070 is also being deployed to a similar target by encouraging the hardcore and enthusiastic gamers to go for the Nvidia GTX 1080 and professional gamers and athletes can settle at GTX 1070. The cards, latest addition to the Pasval architect family (2X faster) will be available in the market from 1st week of June, whereas, India might see a slight delay of couple of weeks for the cards to be made available.

NVIDIA GTX 1080

The pricing, however isn’t unexpected. With the features and performance upgrades from its predecessors, The Nvidia GTX 1080 will surely be as powerful and even more comparatively to GTX 980 in terms of sales.

1080 is the new king.
– Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, Nvidia

Nvidia GTX 1080 which is supposed to be faster than Titan X, is also faster than two GTX 980 cards running together using SLI technology. Like the P100, it’s built with a new 16nm FinFET (a type of 3D transistor) manufacturing process, which makes it more power efficient, on top of just being faster.

Nvidia GTX 1080

Nvidia GTX 1080

The GTX 1080 is the “largest GPU endeavor, largest chip endeavor, largest processor endeavor, in the history of humanity,” said NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. He added that the R&D budget for the new card was “several billion dollars” over the span of more than two years. “I’m pretty sure you can go to Mars [for that],” he said.

Other than the 8GB of GDDR5X RAM and 9 teraflops, Nvidia didn’t release much about the technical specifications of the card, not only 1080, but the 1070 is also supposedly faster than the Titan X in terms of performances and specifications. Professionally for the eSports athletes and the gamers not interested in setting up a giant rig for spaceship operatives, 1070 is a healthy deal as well.

Nvidia GTX 1080 will be available at $599 whereas the GTX 1070 will be coming out at $379. The Indian prices should be around Rs. 54,000 and 34,000 respectively.

ESL India Premiership with INR 42 lakhs prize pool

Deepak Ojha
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ESL India Premiership with INR 42 lakhs prize pool

ESL, the world’s largest esports company, in association with NODWIN Gaming, India’s flagship esports organization, is set to present India’s first annual tournament series, the ESL India Premiership. The event will host six online cups and three mega LAN events throughout the year, while boasting a monumental prize pool of over US$64,000, which amounts roughly INR 42,00,000 rupees in cash prizes.

The top eSports games of the industry, DotA 2 and CS:GO will be taking the charge ahead for ESL India Premiership which will also be an opportunity for amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals competing at different stages. Nodwin gaming, the eSports pilot of India will be taking up the responsibility for all the events; Starters, Challengers and Masters.

ESL India premiership

ESL India Premiership

The ESL India Premiership is the largest tournament series organized not just in India, but in the entire South Asian region. The tournament series will present gamers the opportunity to participate as a team or an individual in online cups and win cash prizes, whilst qualifying for LAN events classified as “Challengers” and “Masters” that are organized on a world class level. At each of the two Challengers, a total prize pool of over INR 17 Lacs will be up for grabs, with the year-ending Masters finale paying out close to 20 Lacs to the champions alone.

“ESL mission is to increase the popularity of esports across the globe. We are excited to help building up the esports community in India with Nodwin. The country’s diverse communities, along with the fact that India embraces technology like no other place, makes it a perfect candidate,” said Ralf Reichert, Managing Director of ESL. “We are very excited to get started with the ESL India Premiership, and I personally can’t wait to experience it live, as I’m sure the crowd will be fantastic. In the meantime, we will ensure that we can deliver a world-class experience – both online and offline – to the local and international fans, and hope this tournament series helps foster growth in the region.”

Akshat Rathee, Director and CEO of NODWIN Gaming, expressed, “Esports athletes are treated as celebrities worldwide and they earn millions of dollars every year by opting to embrace electronic sports as a career. This is unfortunately not yet the case in India. – But we hope to change this. The ESL India Premiership is the next big esports revolution in our country. We feel proud to state that our continuous efforts for the last three years have led to the establishment of such a fruitful brand for our community and for our country, and it’s only just getting started. Join us and play your way up to the top of the ESL India Premiership. Meet the stars and young talents. Action and excitement are guaranteed, it’s the biggest showdown in India to date.”

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The ESL India Premiership will feature three of the top esports titles worldwide: Dota 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone. It will also be the first esports championship in India to introduce the popular rhythm game series Just Dance, which is based on real time dancing.

Registration and Broadcast


The online cups are set to start on 16th May, while the Challengers are set for the month of July and November, with the Masters in December. In addition to active participation, ESL has partnered with Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers, so that fans can enjoy the ESL India Premiership actions live every day from 7-10 PM IST on the Twitch Premiership Channel.

The event will be advent of eSports in India since the prize-pool distribution and the competition level will be different at dissimilar stages. Significantly, ESL India Premiership will be live on 16th of May on Twitch; registrations will be live at ESL Pro Gaming portal. You can follow ESL India Premiership on their social stream for regular updates.

How Beyond Infinity ASUS is shaping up the Indian DotA 2 eSports scene in all the right ways

Deepak Ojha
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How Beyond Infinity ASUS is shaping up the Indian DotA 2 eSports scene in all the right ways

Beyond Infinity ASUS, India’s top DotA 2 roster has recently been in the discussions over their performance against Fnatic at the ESL One Manila qualifiers where they got appreciations and well-beings from world’s top gaming and eSports organization.

Following the massive support and feedback from the community, Beyond Infinity Asus took no time in gaining back the confidence and put themselves together to participate in Manila Major qualifiers.

The roster, which earlier was a part of NeckBREAK, Elunes and InvisibleWings, looks like now have finally have found their home in the likes of Neerav Rukhana (Team owner, Beyond Infinity), the team is also sponsored by ASUS which adds to the optimism.

Beyond Infinity ASUS

The lineup, ZeDisBuGG, Swifty, BlizzarD, Battosai, and NO_Chanc3 were put together and headed under the current franchise not more than a couple of months ago. In a conversation with their IGL, Bari Nasir ‘ZeDisBuGG’ Anwar, we got to know some exclusive details and their operations.

Beyond Infinity Asus
Photo courtesy: MaGGaming

Sponsored by ASUS, Managed and owned by Neerav, Beyond Infinity ASUS have a well-settled boot-camp where they are practicing every day since, February 2016. The routine might sound odd or uncomfortable to our readers, but the boys have really walked out of the comfort-zone and are passionately practicing for 80+ hours a week, which is 36 hours more than a regular office goer according to industry standards (yes, I compared them vs any other professional).

The 5-month-old lineup made its way to ESL One Manila Regional qualifiers playoffs (top 4 in 256 participants)  and played against world’s best Swedish eSports organization’s roster, Team Fnatic. When asked about how was the experience in playing against world best, Anwar recollected:

Beyond Infinity ASUS

“It was a really hard to reach that stage…..we had to play open qualifiers with other 256 teams and we came top 4 and qualified to the closed qualifiers (regional qualifiers). The experience was good as we got to play against tier 1 teams and it helped us getting stronger than ever.”

The bootcamp

 

Beyond Infinity bootcamp in Mumbai, India.

As usually, at the bootcamp, Beyond Infinity Asus practices against some of the top teams from the SEA region and later they shift into the solo-queue mode to improve individual gameplay, and this goes on every day at their headquarters. They have an odd 5,000 facebook fans but are strong enough to boost the team up when they play matches.

Recently, the team participated in two different qualifiers of Manila Majors SEA region and were able to grab a spot 16 top teams in the second qualifier ahead of their country rivals Invisible Wings.

Indian Esports and future endeavors

We have further plans to be continue practicing and participate in major DotA 2 events as a team.. the love from our Indian community is what gives us motivation and we are thankful for such supporters esports is just like any other sport….if u are good at it then its full time thing.

You can follow Beyond Infinity ASUS on their facebook page and know more about how well they are performing and giving India a chance to be called an eSports recognized nation worldwide.

ASUS’s take on Beyond Infinity

“Sponsoring the DotA 2 eSports team,’ Beyond Infinity’ was a pivotal move and I hope this serves as an impetus to shape the future of eSports in India. The team was carefully selected based on the passion each one exhibited, the discipline and their consistency. Currently the team is sponsored for a period of one year and renewal will be subject to performance.” – Mr. Vinay Shetty, ASUS Regional Director – Component Business, India and South Asia

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